History; Ch. 6
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- Where is the Piedmont?
- land between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains
- back country
- the land between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains
- trial by jury
- The right of a person accused of a crime to be tried by a jury, or grou, of fellow citizens
- How did the settlers reach the backcountry
- had to portage (walk) and carry overland their boats and supplies; they used an old Indian trail
- piedmont
- an area at or near the foot of a mountain
- What does Pennsylvania mean?
- Penn's woods
- What contributions did German immigrants make to the culture in the colonies?
- Barn raising, long-barrel gun (Pennsylvania rifle), deep-bellied wagon (Constoga)
- almanac
- a yearly calendar and weather forecast that helps farmers know when to plant crops
- How did the backcountry settlers plant their crops?
- planted corn, beans, and squash all in the same mound of soil
- Where did the first group of Jews in North America settle?
- New Amsterdam
- How did settlers in the backcounry survive?
- Families worked together by chopping wood, churning butter, dyed their own cloth, and making soap and candles; lived in a one room log huts with chimneys made of sticks and mud,had dirt floors and no windows
- immigrant
- a person who comes into a country to make a new home
- Who published the first almanac?
- Benjamin Franklin
- Who organized the first trained firefighting company in the colonies?
- Benjamin Franklin
- What did the Society of Friends (or Quakers) believe?
- That all people are equal and basically good
- New Netherland
- the name the Dutch gave to their colony
- Who did William Penn welcome in his colony?
- English, Welsh Quakers, Irish Catholics, German Lutherans, Jews, and free Africans
- Why did the English want control of the Dutch colony?
- They thought the Dutch colony prevented their own colonies from expanding