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18 Cards in this Set
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Mason-Dixon Line
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Was a boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland and also divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies.
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Act of Toleration
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The law that provided religious freedom for all Christians that did not extend for Jews in 1649.
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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Angry men and woman would raid Native American villages, than he led his followers to Jamestown and burned the capital.
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Indigo
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A plant used to make a valuable blue dye.
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Debtor
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People who owed money they could not pay back.
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Slave Code
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Or rules that denied slaves from basic rights, they also treated enslaved Africans not as human beings but as property.
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Racism
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The belief that Africans were inferior to white Europeans.
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Sir George Calvert
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Founder of Maryland, he named the colony this in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria.
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Lord Baltimore
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The proprietor of Maryland, he appointed a governor and a council of advisers.
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Chesapeake Bay
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Across from Virginia, full of fish, oysters and crabs.
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Margaret and Mary Brent
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Arrived in Maryland with 9 male servants. Mary Brent helped prevent a rebellion among the governor’s soldiers.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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A young man who organized a group of angry men and woman to raid Native American villages, called Bacon’s Rebellion.
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Charles Town
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The largest settlement in the Carolinas, sprang up where the Ashley and Cooper rivers met. Later Charles Town became shortened to Charleston. The colony became known as South Carolina in 1719.
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James Oglethorpe
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A respected English soldier and energetic reformer founded Georgia in 1732. He wanted it to be a place where debtors could make a fresh start.
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Savannah
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Georgia’s first settlement, above the Savannah River.
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The Tidewater
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Because the land was washed by ocean tides, the region was known as the Tidewater. The Tidewater’s gentle slopes and rivers offered rich farmland for plantations.
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The Backcountry
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The Middle Colonies, this inland area was called the backcountry, the rich soil attracted settlers followed the great Wagon Road into the backcountry of Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas.
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The Middle Passage
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In the 1700s, English sailors began referring to the passage of slave ships west across the Atlantic Ocean as the Middle Passage.
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