 | Term | Definition |
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William Penn |
Ruler of Delaware |
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Justice |
Fairness |
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Middle Atlantic colonies |
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York |
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Trial by Jury |
guarantees a person the right to be tried by a jury of fellow citizens |
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King Charles |
gave William Penn rule of Pennsyvania |
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William Penn |
owner of Pennsylvania |
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Sylvania |
woods |
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Refuge |
a safe place |
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Quakers |
people believed in good, did not fight for the king |
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Jerry Berkely & George Cartret |
offered to sell land at a low price |
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Dutch West India |
Henry claimed region for Holland |
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New York |
New Netherland |
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Peter Stuyvesant |
director general of New Netherland |
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Fort Christina |
where Wilmington & Delaware stand |
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New England colonies |
Connecticut, Massachusets, Rhode Island, New Hampshire |
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David Thomson |
founded the first New Hampshire settlement |
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Strawberry Banke |
City of Portsmouth |
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New Hampshire people |
puritans trying to make the Church of England more pure |
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New Hampshire details |
Colonists were in search of fertile and economic opportunities |
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Roger Williams |
minister expelled for different beliefs |
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Anne Hutchinson |
set on trial for having different beliefs |
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Sedition |
making people go against their government |
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Puritan |
trying to make the Church of England more pure |
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Providence |
built by Roger Williams & Narragansett Indians home |
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John Endecott |
brought the first group of puritans |
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John Winthrop |
created federation for protection |
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School |
50 families means a school |
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Meeting House |
most important village |
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Thomas Hooker |
religious freedom and government follower & established Connecticut as a colony |
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Voters |
Male, land-owning people |
