Chapter 4 Social Studies (7 US History)

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Mason-Dixon Line

Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies

Act of Toleration

A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians (especially Catholics)

Bacon's Rebellion

A 1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and Native Americans in Virginia

indigo

A plant used to make valuable blue dye

debtor

A person who cannot pay money he or she owes

slave code

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.

racism

Belief that one race is superior to another

The wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, successful lawyers, and royal officials were at the top of colonial society

Gentry

In 1734, John Peter Zenger was tried for publishing a statement that unjustly damages a person's reputation.

Libel

In New England, some girls attended schools run by women in their own homes

Dame Schools

Some men and women came to the Americas as people who promised to work for four to seven years in exchange for their ocean passage

Indentured Servants

Massachusetts set up the first schools supported by taxes

Public Schools

Some boys in the colonies served as people who worked for a master craft-worker in order to learn a trade or craft

Apprentices

What social classes existed in the colonies?

In the colonies, the social

classes were the gentries, the middle class, and the indentured servants

What did Enlightenment Thinkers hope to achieve?

Enlightenment thinkers

hoped to achieve that people could gain better knowledge of the world through "thinking and experimenting".

Why did the Great Awakening increase democratic feelings in the colonies?

The Great Awakening increased democratic feelings in the colonies because it gave a new insight on being emotional and allowed civilians to challenge their leaders, coming together as a democracy.

What educational opportunities did boys and girls have in the colonies?

Boys and girls

in the colonies had a lot of opportunities, however boys more than girls. Boys could go to public school and be apprentices, while girls could have tutoring or go to "dame school." Specifically in MA, there was a public school (funded by taxes.)

What new ideas did Benjamin Franklin convince Philly Officials to put in place?

were a religious group that wanted to reform the church of england

Puritans

Massachusetts Bay Colony set up an assembly called the

General Court

About 100 colonists left Massachusetts Bay Colony they wrote a plan of government called the

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Massachusetts Bay Colony is also founded the colony of Rhode Island based on the principle

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Why did the Puritans want to leave England

The Puritans want to leave England for more religious freedom but they didn't want you to separate entirely from the Church of England

What problems in the Massachusetts Bay Colony cause Thomas Hooker Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson to leave

Thomas Hooker left because he believed that the officials in the governor had too much power over everyone's Roger Williams left because he believed that Massachusetts Puritan church had too much Anne Hutchinson left because the court ordered her out of the colony for breaking one of the Puritan laws

what matters were discussed at town meetings in New England

Accounting meeting they discussed such things as what road should be built how should certain people be paid and it also gave New Englanders a chance to speak their minds this experience encouraged the growth of democratic ideas in New England

How did colonists relationship with Native Americans change over time

In the beginning the Indians helped out and we're treated fairly but as more solute moved in the more the Indians were pushed out and sold into slavery

What were the characteristics of the New England towns and villages

In New England towns and villages people took the Sabbath very seriously like on the Sabbath you must attend a mass you cannot go to Terrance to yogurt drink and in government there laws restrict in villages the soil was bad so they hunted in till the Indian started to help teach them to grow crops once ate once in awhile the village Mart in meetings were people could express their feelings for the village and how it could change it to make it better

An owner of a huge estate in New Netherland

Patroon

protested reformers who believe that all people are equal in God's sight

Quakers

colony under control of English crown

Royal colony

Produce that is sold for money at the market

Cash crop

German-speaking protestans who settled in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Dutch

Colonies whose owner could rent out land to others

Proprietary Colony

The colony of New Netherland became BLANK when the Dutch surrendered to the English

New York

the Duke of York set up the BLANK colony of New Jersey because he felt New York was too large to govern

Proprietary

Catholic protestans and use went to BLANK to escape persecution

Pennsylvania

Winters in the middle colonies were more BLANK harsh than in New England

Less

In middle colonies BLANK became centers of local government

Counties

Thousands of German and Scotch Irish settlers arrived in BLANK in the 1700'S

Philadelphia

Boundary between the middle colonies and the southern colonies

Mason Dixon line

Law that provided religious freedom for all Christians

Act of toleration

Uprising in which colonists attack the Native American villages

Bacon's Rebellion

Believe that one race is superior to another

Racism

Laws that set out rules for slaves behavior and denied them basic rights

Slave codes

Plant used to make blue dye

Indigo