Ch. 17-36 History
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- Religious dissenters
- (def:) people who are against a certain religion (sig.) they made up a large part of N Carolina's population
- Fundamental Orders
- (def.) a document for Connecticut that unified all the laws (sig.) without these laws ct might have split into several different colonies
- Middle Colonies
- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware
- New England Colonies
- Massachussets, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
- Toleration Act
- (def.) stated that all religions were to be accepted
- seperation of church and state
- (def:) this made the government unable to tell people what religion to follow (sig.) the puritans finally attained free religion, which they had come to America for
- Indigo
- (def.) a blue dye, once obtained from plants, but now made synthetically (sig.) it was the second cash crop in South carolina
- quaker
- A diff. form of christianity that believed everyone was their friends. Dissented by eveyone except for a place in Pennsylvania. they had everyone sit together at services and women were held as high as men
- Plantation
- A plantation is like a small village owned by one family. It grows its own fruits and vegtables and raises its own animals. Money from tobacco pays for clothing and college educations.
- Dutch West India Company
- Owned most of the colonies. It was a trading company. They helped bring many ppl over to america.
- William Penn
- Born rich and was a quaker, Got kicked out of college when he refused to pray. Got beat by his father.
- blue laws
- laws preventing work and play on sundays
- Southern Colonies
- Virginia, Maryland, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Georgia
- Roger Williams
- puritan minister who didn't like people of other religions, but still thought they had the right to worship their own religion. Thought government shouldn't control what religion a person worships
- Anne Hutchinson
- she had 14 children and she questioned the ministers beliefs. was put on trial and kicked out of Mass and puritan church