| A | B |
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| New England Colonies | based on ship building, fishing, lumbering, manufacturing. Reflecting the Puritans strong belief in the values of hard work and thrift. |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, based on farming and trading. Cities such as New York and Philidelphia began to grow as seaports and commercial centers. |
| Southern Colonies | In the Eastern colonial lowlands based on large plantations that grew "cash crops" such as tobacco, rice, and indigo for export to Europe. |
| Frontier Regions | A strong belief in private ownership of property and free enterprise characterized colonial life. |
| Middle Passage | Millions of Africans moved to the Americas |
| Jamestown | Established in 1607, was the first English settlement in North America |
| Puritans | Seeking freedom from the religious persecutuion in Europe. |
| Enlightenment | In Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries saw the development of new ideas about the rights of people and their relationship to their rules. |
| John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Which prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, a region that was costly for the British to protect. |
| Boston Tea Party (Boston Massacre) | Britaish responded with a series of harsh measures and sent more troops to Boston. |
| Patriots | Believed in complete independece from England |
| Loyalists | remained loyal to britain |
| Neutrals | The many colonists who tried to stay as un-involved in the was as possible. |
| Treaty Alliance with France | Treaty of peace and order with france |
| The Articles of Confederation | -provided for a weak national government. -provided no common currency. -gave each state one vote regardless of size |
| Great Compromise | was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 |
| Federalists | stand up for the strong central government |
| Anit-Federalists | fearded ab overly powerful centeral government destructive of the rights of individuals and the prerogatives of the states. |
