8th Gr Am. History Unit 2

Match the definition to the term

• denomination

• distinct religious group

• artisans

• people who watch over & direct the work of slaves

• clans

• skilled craftspeople, such as blacksmiths & cabinet makers

• overseers

• large group of families that claim a common ancestor

• indigo

• plant that produces a deep blue dye

Match the definition to the term

• cash crops

• crops to be sold for money

• smuggling

• point at which waterfalls prevent large boats from moving farther upriver

• fall line

• importing & exporting goods illegally

• subsistence farming

• shared land where public activities took place

• common

• producing just enough food for one's needs

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• banish

• to force someone to leave a place

• patroon

• to mistreat

• dissenter

• person rewarded with a large land grant for brining 50 settlers to New Netherland

• persecute

• acceptance of different opinions

• tolerance

• person who disagrees with an official church

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• investor

• group of people who belong to the same church

• joint-stock company

• land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies

• congregation

• one who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America

• head right

• person who puts money into a project to earn a profit

• indentured servant

• company funded by a group of investors

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• proprietary colony

• colony rules by the king's appointed officiald

• diversity

• colony governed by a single owner, or proprietor

• royal colony

• variety

• charter

• written contract giving the right to establish a colony

• elite

• highest-ranking social group

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• region

• distinct area of land

• Tidewater

• these wagons used wide wheels suitable for dirt roads; curved beds to prevent spilling when climbing hills

• Conestoga

• flat land along the coast

Match the following

• Peter Stuyvsant

• was the governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland

• John Winthrope

• was the Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Anne Hutchinson

• a Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts; she believed that the clergy were not the "elect" - those chosen by God for salvation

Match the following

• John Smith

• leader of the Jamestown colony, was a soldier & adventurer who took control & brought the colony to order

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• was a Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland

• Lord Baltimore

• was the founder of England's first American colony