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A religious group that led people to Massachusetts
Puritans
Owners of huge estates
Patroons
A line diving the middle colony and the Southern Colony.
Mason-Dixon-Line
The three legs of the route formed a triangle.
Triangular Trade
The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation.
Libel
The king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment.
Proprietary Colony
The law that provided religious freedom.
Act of Toleration
A group of people who have the power to make laws.
Legislature
Boys whose parents wished for them to learn a trade or craft.
Apprentices
Settlers discussed and voted on many issues.
Town Meetings
A colony under the direct control of the English crown
Royal Colony
A plant used to make valuable blue dye.
Indigo
A written list of freedoms the government promises to protect.
Bill of Rights
Private teachers
Tutors
Male church members also elected representatives to an assembly.
General Court
Crops that are sold for money at markets
Cash Crops
People who owed money they could not pay back.
Debtors
The nation became strong by keeping strict control over its trade.
Mercantilism
Private schools for girls, run by women in their own homes
Dame Schools
A plan of government written by the settlers.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Quakers
The belief that one race is superior to another.
Racism
Merchants that dominated local trade.
Yankees
Huge religious movement of the 1730's-1740's.
Great Awakening