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| plant used to make a blue dye for cloth |
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| is defined as the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
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| a voluntary agreement to worship together |
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| the actual ownership of one human being by another |
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| The terrible journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to America |
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| a period during the 1700's when thinkers believed that people should use reason and natural law to shape society |
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| were people at the top of colonial New England's urban society |
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| asserted that all people were born with the right to life, liberty, and property |
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| persons who invest wealth, particularly, money, in a business |
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| was appointed as the first governor-general of the Dominium of New England |
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| began when Charles I sent troops into the English Parliament to arrest several Puritan leaders |
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| names his capital Philadelphia, which means "city of brotherly love" |
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| a set of laws defining the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people |
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| required that all goods shipped to and from the colonies be carried on English ships |
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| this colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a place where debtors could star over |
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| was a period in the 1700's when there was a revival of religious feeling |
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| developed their economy on agriculture |
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| the bloodless change of power that brought Protestants rulers William and Mary to the throne of England |
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| was an uprising by enslaved Africans wanting freedom |
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| people who made labor contracts with colonists, agreeing to work for a set term in exchange for payment for their passage to America, food, clothing and shelter until the contract expired |
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| this event convinced many wealthy planters in Virginia that land should be made available for backcountry farmers |
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| Puritan minister who promoted a novel practice called inoculation to prevent and abate small pox |
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| resulted in having the colonists pay higher prices for goods imported from Europe |
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| growing only enough crops to feed your own family |
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| instead of trading directly with England, colonial merchants developed the systems involving a three-way exchange of goods |
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| this colony was made up of three counties south of Pennsylvania that William Penn had purchased |
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| no other group endured lower status or hardship in the American colonies |
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| began to view the colonies as a source of raw materials after the English Civil War |
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| this land was originally acquired by a Quaker names William Penn as settlement for a debt that King Charles owed his father. It later became a colony |
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| was a new royal providence created by when the English government merged the colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Rhode Island |
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| is a set of ideas about the world economy that believed that to become wealthy and powerful a country had to accumulate gold and silver |
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| believed that each person had an "inner light" from God, that there was no need for ministers, and that war was not an appropriate means for settling disputes |
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| was originally called New Netherland because it belonged to the Dutch, but it was overtaken by force by James, the Duke of York, and renamed it in his honor |
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