| A | B |
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| Puritans | Believed that people needed enough education to read the bible and to understand the laws |
| Harvard | First college in the colonies |
| John Winthrop | First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Providence, Rhode Island | Community started by Roger Williams |
| Hartford, Connecticut | Community founded by Thomas Hooker |
| Commonwealth | A self-governing political unit |
| Rhode Island | Smallest English colony |
| The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | First American constitution written in connecticut |
| The Dutch | Influenced homes in the middle colonies |
| Protestand religion | Religion of most setlers in the middle colonies |
| Apprentice | A person who worked for a skillled person to learn a trade or art |
| Cash Crops | Food crops grown to be sold |
| Middle Colonies | Known for their good farm land |
| Patrons System | A system continued by an upper class of wealthy merchant families in New York State |
| Conestoga wagon | Developed to carry farm produce |
| Middle Colonies | Had no single religion |
| Peter Minuit | Bought Manhattan Island for Dutch |
| New Jersey | Colony formed from land from New York |
| William Penn | Quaker |
| Export | To sell goods outside of your country |
| Import | To brimg goods into your country |
| Triangular Trade Routes | West Indies-New England-West Africa |
| Quakers | Did not allowed church members to serve in wars |
| Delaware | Once part of Pennsylvania |
| Urban area | An area with city life |
| West Indies | The first source of enslaved africans brought to America to work |
| Rural area | An area with mostly farms |
| English | First settlers in the Southern colonies |
| James Oglethorpe | Founder of the colony of Georgia |
| Lord Baltimore | Founder of the colony of Maryland |
| Maritime Resources | Products used in colonial shipbuilding |
| Tobacco | Provided huge profits in Virginia |
| Malaria | People in the swampy coast of carolina were afraid of getting this disease |
| Indigo-tobacco-rice | Cash crops grown in the South |
| Indigo | Plant used to produce blue dye |
| Middle Passage | Route between Africa and America used by slave traders |
| Georgia | Colony started for the deptors from England |
| Robber Futon | Steamboat |
| Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin |
| Louisianna Purchase | Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Boston Massacre | Shooting of the five Bostonians |
| Stamp Act | Tax on legal paper documents |
| Quartering Act | Require colonies to house British soldiers in their own homes |
| Boston Tea Party | A protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Intolerable Acts | Passed by Parliment to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Paul Revere | "One if by land and two if by sea" |
| Samuel Adams | Leader of the Sons of Liberty |
| Charles Townsend | British treasurer who convinced the King to place a tax on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea |
| King George III | Thought the colonist should help pay for the French and Indian War |
| Sons and Daughters of Liberty | Were organized to protest British policies |
| France lost Canada | Result of the French and Indian war |
| Louisianna Purchase | Piece of land sold by Napolen to the U.S. |
| National Anthem | Poem written during the war of 1812 my Frances S. Key |
| Sacajawea | Indian guide used by Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisianna Purchase |
| Tom Thumb | The train that raced the horse |
| Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes | Two bodies of water joinen together by the Erie Canal |
| Robert Fulton | Invented the first steamboat machine |
| Erie Canal | Cheaper way to move goods from east to the Great Lakes |
| DeWitt Clinton | Proposed building the Erie Canal |
| Interchangeable Parts | Made mass production possible |
| Brigman Young | Led Mormons to the Great Salt Lake |
| Gold Rushers | Forty-niners |
| Golden Spike | Placed in the ground of Promontory Point, Utah used to complete the transcontinental railroadThe |
| Spoke wheel | Unique characteristic of the Conestoga Wagon |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the interchangeable parts |
| Manifest Destiny | The will of the people to own from the Pacific Ocean the Atlantic Ocean |
