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| New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island | colonies in the New England region |
| New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware | 4 colonies in the Middle Region |
| Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia | colonies in the Soutnern Region |
| Pilgrims | group of people that first settled the New England Area |
| House of Burgesses | first representative assembly in the colonies |
| indentured servant | one who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America |
| Catholics | religious group that went to Maryland to escape persecution in order to practice their religion |
| Stamp Act | tax on legal documents |
| Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island and started the first Baptist church |
| Georgia | colony that protected the English colonies against Spanish Florida to the south and French Louisiana to the west |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1st written Constitution in America |
| England and France | The French and Indian War was a war between what two countries |
| land | underlying cause of the French and INdian War |
| 1763 Treaty of Paris | Treaty that ended the French and Indian War |
| England gained a lot of land; France lost their influence in the colonies, beginning of bad relationship between England and its colonies | 3 outcomes of the French and Indian War |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania as a place where Quakers could practice their beliefs |
| land, religious freedom, power | 3 things that attracted settlers to the colonies |
| majority rule and self government | The Mayflower Compact established these two practices |
| proprietory colony | colony governed by a single owner or proprietor |
| Delaware | colony formed when William Penn allowed three counties to form their own assembly |
| James Oglethorpe | opposed large plantations and slavery in Georgia |
| Sugar Act | taxes on molasses and other colonial goods |
| Fort Duquesne | name of fort the French built to protect their Ohio land claims. |
| Seven Year War | larger war that the French and Idian War was part of |
| fur trade | reason the Ohio region was desired by both the French and the English |
| George Washington | young, new soldier from Virginia taht led a small troop sent to the Ohio region to demand that the French leave |
| Quartering Act | act that required American colonists to house British Soldiers |
| Tea Act | cause of the Boston Tea Party |
| Townshend Act | tax on glass, paint, paper, lead and tea |
| Fort Necessity | built by George Washington to protect his soldiers |
| used a new fighting strategy that was like the fighting style of Native Americans | reason that the colonies became more successful in battle |
| pay off war debt from the French and Indian War | reason Britain taxed the colonists |
| boycott, formed secret societies such as the Sons of Liberty | ways the colonists reacted to being taxed by Britain |
