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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1st written constitution in the colonies |
| Mayflower Compact | document created for the good of the colony in 1620 |
| House of Burgesses | 1st representative government in the colonies |
| Agriculture | something that is grown |
| Rhode Island | 1st colony with religious freedom, founded by Roger Williams |
| Plantation | large tract of land, slavery used to produce one main crop for profit |
| Manufacture | something that is made |
| Cash Crops | large amounts of crops grown for profit - tobacco, indigo, rice |
| France | country that settled along the Mississippi River, Great Lakes and Canada |
| Southern Colonies | region that consisted of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia - the institution of slavery was used more here |
| Georgia | colony founded by James Oglethorpe, refuge for debtors |
| Columbian Exchange | transfer of goods, diseases, people and ideas across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Dutch | nationality that settled New York area - New Netherlands |
| Middle Colonies | region that consisted of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania |
| Separatists | religious group who wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| England | country that settled along the Atlantic Ocean |
| Puritan | religious group that wants to purify the church |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania |
| Plymouth | 1620, settlement created for religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan woman kicked out of Massachusetts, fled to Rhode Island |
| Quakers | religious group, Society of Friends, believes in inner light - equality and peace |
| Spain | country that settled along Florida, Mexico and Southwest United States |
| New England Colonies | region that consisted of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts -religion was more important here and crime and punishment was more severe |
| Lord Baltimore | founder of Maryland, haven for Catholics |
| Jamestown | 1st permanent English settlement in the New World, founded 1607 |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut |
| looking for gold and silver | reason settlers came to Jamestown |
| religious freedom | reasons settlers came to Plymouth |
| Maryland | haven for Catholics |
| Pennsylvania | colony founded based on Quaker principles |
| Georgia | colony forbade Catholics, alcohol, slavery |
