A holy day of rest
What is the Sabbath?
What is an owner of a huge estate?
Mason-Dixon Line
This divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies
A nickname that implied they were clever and hard-working.
What is a Yankee?
wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, successful lawyers, and royal officials.
Who's in the gentry?
A willingness to let someone practice their own beliefs
What is religious tolerance?
Where was a popular trading port?
Jamestown
Bacon's Rebellion burned down _________.
a legislature
What is a group of people who have the power to make laws?
Farmers who worker their own land, skilled craftworkers, and some tradespeople
Who were in the middle class?
Anne Hutchinson
Who was the woman who questioned the Puritan court?
In 1702, New Jersey became a _______ _________, a colony under the direct control of the _______ ______.
James Oglethorpe
This man founded Georgia in in 1732
a written list of freedoms the government promises to protect.
What is the Bill of Rights?
indentured servants were in this
What is the lowest social class?
settlers discussed and voted on many issues
What happened at town meetings?
cash crops
What are crops that are sold for money at market?
a debtor
What is a person who owed money they could not pay back?
White, Christian men over the age of 21
Who could vote in the 1720's?
free schools supported by taxes
What is a public school?
1630
When was the Massachusetts Bay migration?
hardships
Most of the settlers in the backcountry were joined together through _________.
these treated enslaved Africans not as human beings, but as property.
What are slave codes?
about 10%
What percent of slaves died on the ship's passage?
a movement that European thinkers of the late 1600's and 1700's started
What is the Enlightenment?