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US History-English Colonies (Chapter 3)
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8th Grade
10/05/2009

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The __________ migrated to America to escape from religious tension, punishment by English leaders and to practice a new form of Protestantism.

 

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Pilgrims
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Merchants, shipbuilders, and fishermen were a major part of the economy of ______________________.
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New England
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A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade
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Mercantilism
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The _________ created by Plymouth colonists could best be described as an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies.
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Mayflower Compact
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________________'s belief that people could have a relationship with God without guidance from ministers posed a threat to authority in the community.
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Anne Hutchinson
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The ___________ had a social impact on the colonies because it unified various groups of Americans who shared evangelical beliefs.
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Great Awakening
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In European nations, the practice of carefully controlling trade to create and maintain wealth was called __________.
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Mercantilism
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The objective of the ______________________ was to reduce the powers of the English Monarch.
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English Bill of Rights
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The disadvantage of farming in _______________ was that regional farms did not support cash crops.
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New England
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The ___________'s "headright system" encouraged aristocrats to move to Virginia by giving 50 acres of land per person to idividuals and groups who paid their own way.
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London Company
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The ___________ of 1765 was particularly upsetting to the colonists. It was the first time Parliament had tried to tax colonists directly.
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Stamp Act
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The ___________ colonies had the strictest slave codes because they had the largest farming areas and therfore the most slaves.
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southern
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The Virgina colonists decided to use slave labor partially because there were not enough ________________ to meet the high demand of cash crop plantations.
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Indentured servants
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Slaves in the _________ colonies worked at skilled crafts such as blacksmithing and carpentry.
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Middle
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Lord Baltimore proposed the _____________ of 1649 to outlaw the restrictions of the religious rights of Christians in Maryland.
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Toleration Act
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England punished Massachusetts for the ____________ by cancelling its charter, closing Boston Harbor, and requiring the governor's approval for the legislature to meet.
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Boston Tea Party
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The colonists call the Coercive Acts, passed by Parliament in the spring of 1774 the ____________________.
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Intolerable Acts
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The __________ that supported the middle colonists icluded wheat, oats, and barley.
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staple crops
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Parliament repealed almost all of  the _________ to give the colonists a sense of independence.
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Townshend Acts
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The _________ came to an end when a Virginia colonist killed a Powhatan leader.
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Powhatan Confederacy
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_______________ forced colonists in Jamestown to work harder and made friends with the local natives.
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John Smith
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___________ were colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
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Indentured Servants
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_________ created in Massachusetts, were groups that helped towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British Laws.
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Committees of Correspondence
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___________ are crops that are continuously in demand.
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Staple Crops
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___________ was the daughter of a Powhatan chief whose marriage to colonist John Rolfe eased tensions between the Powhatan and the colonists.
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Pocahontas
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____________ was one of the leaders in the Great Awakening who urged sinners to seek forgiveness for their sins.
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Jonathan Edwards
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The _________ were a protestant sect founded in England that believed salvation was available to all people.
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Quakers
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____________ are people who move to another country after leaving their homeland.
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Immigrants
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____________ were a political gathering at which people made decisions on local issues.
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Town Meetings
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___________ was a Quaker leader who established a colony with the goal of fair government for all.
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William Penn
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