Colonial America and Early U.S. History

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Cash crop

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A crop grown for sale rather than for the farmer's use.

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Slave

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Person who is considered the property of another.

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Triangular trade

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Patterns of shipping trade across the Atlantic.

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Middle passage

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The voyage that brought slaves to America.

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Enlightenment

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Intellectual movement that started in Europe.

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Benjamin Franklin

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Philadelphia inventor, writer, and political leader.

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Jonathan Edwards

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Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening.

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Great Awakening

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Religious revival movement in the colonies.

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Stono Rebellion

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A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina.

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New France

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French colony in North America.