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Chapter 4 DiTizio/8th
Chapter 4 Social Studies 8th DiTizio
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History
8th Grade
10/19/2011

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History Chapter 4 8th
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Metacom
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Also referred to as King Phillip
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William Penn
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Wealthy Quaker who received a charter for a colony
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Ben Franklin
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Famous 1700's inventor, printer, diplomat, and scientist
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Roger Williams
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Founded a colony after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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William of Orange
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Became King of England following the Glorious Revolution
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Jonathon Edwards
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Resposible for starting the Great Awakening
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Yankee Merchants
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Got around the Navigational Acts because they sailed on triangular routes
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Catholics
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Settled Maryland to escape persecution in England
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Pennsylvania
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Colony founded on the Quaker model of religious freedom and peace(brotherly love)
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Why did people follow Roger Williams to Rhode Island?
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They wanted greater religious freedom
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The Enlightenment
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Movement of thinking begun by John Locke
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Africans
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Enjoyed the least amount of freedom in English colonies
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Massachusetts
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Colony to set up the first tax supported schools in North America
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What is the only difference between slaves and indentured servants?
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Indentured servants were freed upon completing their contract.
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The Mason-Dixon Line
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The imaginary line that divided the Middle and Southern colonies
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The Middle Passage
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The other name for the route that brought slaves to the Americas
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Puritans
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Wanted to clean up the Church of England
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Proprietary Colony
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Owned through yearly payment
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Royal Colony
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Directly controlled by the English Crown
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Slave code
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Laws defining people as property
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Import
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Goods brought Into a country
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Export
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Goods leaving or Exiting a country
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Know the location of the following colonies on a map
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Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine
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How was New Jersey named?
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It was a proprietary colony named for the isle of Jersey that harbored the King of England and his brother during the English Civil War.
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Why was Georgia founded?
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It was a colony founded for debtors or people who owed money. These people were to protect South Carolina from the Spanish in Florida
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Know
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about the Salem Witch Trials and how New Jersey got its name
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