| A | B |
|---|
| toleration | willingness to let others practice their own beliefs |
| Puritans | They wanted to do away with practices borrowed from Roman Catholics |
| General Court | representatives that are elected into an assembly by male church members |
| Great Migration | movement of people between 1629 and 1640 that journeyed from England to Massachusetts |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | this plan of government gave the vote to all men who were property owners and limited the governor's power |
| patroon | owners of huge estates or manors |
| proprietary colony | English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment |
| Quakers | believed that all people were equal in God's sight |
| Pennsylvania Dutch | German-speaking Protestants |
| Cash crops | crops sold for money on the world market |
| Breadbasket Colonies | Middle Colonies that exported a large quality of grain |
| backcountry | area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Great Wagon Road | an old Iroquois trail that the settlers followed |
| Mason-Dixon Line | boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies |
| Act of Toleration | an act that provided religious freedom for all Christians |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Nathaniel Bacon organized angry men and women on the frontier to raid Native American villages |
| Tidewater | land washed by ocean tides that offers rich farmland for plantations |
| slave codes | laws that set out rules for slave's behavior anddenied slaves their basic rights |
| racism | the belief that one race is superior to another |
| Middle Passage | the trip from Africa to the Americas |
