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colonies vocab
Question | Answer |
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Act of Toleration | provided religious freedom for all Christians in Maryland |
Bacon's Rebellion | rebellion in Virginia because the Governor would not declare war on the Indians |
Cash Crop | farm crop raised to be sold for money |
Royal Colony | colony directly under control of King or queen |
Region | area that has similar unifying characteristics |
General Court | representative assembly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
emigrate | to leave ones country to settle elsewhere |
King Phillip's War | conflict between English settlers and the Indians in Mass. |
Great Migration | between 1629 and 1640 more than 20,000 English people moved to New England |
toleration | willingness to let others have their own beliefs |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | first Puritan Colony |
theocracy | a government of churchmen who used religion as a basis for ruling |
subsistence farming | growing just enough food to eat |
Quakers | protestant reformers who settled in Pennsylvania,believed that all people were created equal |
Frame of Government | representative government of Pennsylvania |
patroon | rich landowner in Pennsylvania |
diverse | different |