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Philadelphia
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the largest city in colonial America, had 25000 people
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Cambridge
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the city where Harvard College, the first in America, was
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John Eliot
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"Apostle to the Indians," translated the Bible to Algonquin, the first Bible ever to be printed in America
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Benjamin Franklin
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"The first American" and perhaps the best known American scientist of the colonial America, signed first four important American documents
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John Peter Zenger
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a German printer, his trial set an important precedent for American freedom of the press.
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Copley, West, Stuart and Peale
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distinguished portrait painters in colonial America
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William Billings
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the first professional musician and the first notable composer born in America
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Sir Isaac Newton
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the English observer of the physical laws of the universe
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Bartram, Garden, and Colden
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made extensive studies of the plant life of North America
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Carolus Linnaeus
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the renowned Swedish classifier who credited Garden
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John Winthrop IV
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enabled English astronomers to measure the earth's distance from the sun
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David Rittenhouse
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constructed the first mechanical model of the solar system
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Benjamin Banneker
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a black astronomer, successfully predicted an eclipse in 1789
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Cotton Mather
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helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine in America
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Daniel Boone
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had extensive knowledge of the wilderness, blazed a trail later called the Wilderness Road, also built a fort which later became the town of Boonesborough
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Boonesborough
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a fort Daniel Boone built to protect settlers from Indians and later became a town
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Scots-Irish
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the second largest group that came to America
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aristocracy
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at the top of the social class including wealthy plantation owners, great landholders, prosperous merchants, and professionals
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'bread colonies"
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the middle colonies which produces an abundance of grain
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indigo
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a plant used to make blue dye, an important crop in South Carolina and Georgia
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quitrent
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a small, fixed annual fee a settler payed in the propriety colonies
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headright system
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Virginia's system which a piece of land was given to every settler
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domestic system
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where the whole family participated in the of products
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triangular trade routes
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the routes ships made from New England
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Harvard College
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the first institution of higher learning on the continent of north America
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Ole' Deluder Satan Act
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an act that said towns of a certain population needed to have a school in order that Satan would not succeed on keeping the scriptures from them
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hornbook
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a paddle-shaped board to which was attached a printed sheet that had the alphabet and a scripture on it
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New England Primer
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the most widely read textbook in colonial, read when graduated from hornbook
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Philadelphia Academy
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founded by Benjamin Franklin, later became University of Pennsylvania, chartered as nonsectarian but largely Anglican
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subscription libraries
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a library in which only those who contributed to their support could borrow books
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Poor Richard's Almanac
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by Benjamin Franklin, contained meteorological and astronomical information as well as simple proverbs and sound advice couched in good humor
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Boston News-Letter
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America's first regularly published weekly newspaper
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New-England Courant
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the first privately published newspaper in America
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Moravians
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where the most notable music in colonial came from
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deism
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the idea that God created the universe and then abandoned it to operate purely by natural law
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Wilderness Road
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The trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped build; he also led a group of men through it
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post roads
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roads which connected larger cities and which the mail was carried over
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bicameral
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a legislative body composed of two bodies
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upper house and lower house
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the place where members were appointed by the crown or the proprietor, the place where members were elected by qualified voters
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town meeting system
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a system where local citizens could vote and also assemble periodically to become the chief law-making body
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county
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the primary of local government at the time
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English
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the largest group of immigrants in America
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Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and Charles Town
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the four largest cities in America
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Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
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the New England colonies
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New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
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the middle colonies
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Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
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the southern colonies
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aristocracy, middle class,and indentured servants and slaves
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the three class distinctions in America
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Harvard College
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the first college founded in America
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Harvard, College of William and Mary, Yale, Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University, Rutgers, Dartmouth College, and Philadelphia Academy
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nine colleges founded in America's colonial period
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John Cotton, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, Cotton Mather, and Johnathan Edwards
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five noted American authors of religious works
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quilting bees, corn-huskings, and barn-raisings
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three ways the colonists combined work and pleasure
