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| Cultural Diversity | The existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. |
| Middle Passage | the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies; and later to North and South America; to be sold as slaves—so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade |
| Self-Governance | Government under the control of the people of a colony rather than by an outside authority |
| Salutary Neglect | English policy towards the colonies from the 1720s until the 1760s that included fewer restrictions on trade and more local control of government. |
| First Great Awakening | A series of emotional religious revivals in the 1730s occurring throughout the colonies. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 uprising of former indentured servants against the ruling elite of Virginia |
| House of Burgesses | The first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. |
| Shotgun House | African inspired house characterized as being very narrow and long with a front porch. One room wide with no hallways. |
