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QuebecProvince in Canada extending from Hudson bay to Gaspe peninsula. Area is 595,388 square miles (1,542,056 square kilometers), population 7,546,131; City or port.
TobaccoA moderate brown; any of a genus of chiefly American plants of the rigidshape family wotj viscid foilage.
HOuse of BurgessesVirginia legislative formed in 1619.
Staple cropsA crop that is in constant demand. Ex. cotton, wheat or rice.
Rodger Williams and Anne HutchinsonBoth broke away from church, know for their religious rebellion.
DutchArtisan, hand carved trunk; person paying his or her own way; a language.
QuakersA member of a potential group that emphasizes equality. They suffered persecution in England.
Middle PassageOne leg of the triangular trade; term also used to refer to the forced transport of slaves from Africa to the Americas.
First Great AwakeningA period of heightened religious activity in the British North American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's.
Trans Atlantic TradeThe trading of primarily African people to the colonies of teh New World that occured in and around the Atlantic ocean.
Proclamation of 1736Declared the boundaries of settlement for inhabitants of the 13 colonies to be Appa (After Great Britain won seven years war).
Sons of LibertyA political group made up of American patriots that originated in teh pre-independent North American British colonies.
JamestownLocated on Jamestown Island in Virginia coloy; was founded on May 14, 1607. It is the first permanent English Settlement in what is now the United States of America.
PowhatanA Virginia Indian tribe; powerful group of tribes that they dominated.
PuritansOPeople who favored teh purification of England's Anglican church.

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