| A | B |
|---|
| proprietor | a person who owned or ruled the colony |
| delegates | people elected by the colonists to represent them |
| influence | the power of people or things to act on another |
| stoop | a high, wide doorstep, like a porch |
| refuge | a place of safety |
| Quakers | people who believed in a simple and plain life |
| immigrants | people who come from one country to live in another |
| apprentice | a person who works for a skilled craftsman |
| Conestoga Wagon | large covered wagon used to carry big loads |
| Scotch-Irish | first people to settle beyond the fall line |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
| Sarah Knight | traveled on horseback from Boston to New York |
| William Penn | leader of Pennsylvania colony |
| Ben Franklin | Inventor and most important citizen of Philadelphia |
| fall line | area in the rivers with waterfalls and rough water |
| Pennsylvania | Germans & Scotch-Irish settled here |
| Germans | skilled craftsmen |
| New York & Philadelphia | busy ports with important harbors |
