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Geography
8th Grade
10/19/2011

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Duke of York
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Founder of New York. Gave some of New York to his friends and helped make the colony of New Jersey.
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Thomas Hooker
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Founded Connecticut because he thought the government and other officials had to much power.

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Roger Williams
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He settled in Rhode Island because he believed that the Puritan church had too much power.

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Anne Hutchinson

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She was persecuted for 82 religious believes. She fled to Rhode Island.

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William Penn

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Founder of Pennsylvania. 

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Puritans 

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Group of English protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Sabbath 
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Holy day.

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Proprietary colony
Definition
English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.
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Royal colony
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Colony under the direct control of the English crown.
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Cash Crop
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Crop sold for money at market.
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Quakers
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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people.
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Pennsylvania Dutch 
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German speaking protestants who settled in Pennsylvania.
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Mason Dixie line
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Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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Dedtors
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Person who can not pay money he or she owes.
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Slave codes 
Definition
Laws that controlled the lives of African Americans and denied them basic rights.
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Mercantilism 
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Theory that a nations econamic strengh came from keeping a strict control over it's colonial trade.
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Indentured Servants
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Person who agreed to work withoutwages for a period of time.
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Indigo
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A plant used to make a valuable blue dye.
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Racism
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The believe that one race is superiour to the other.
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Export
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Goods sent to markets outside a country.
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