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Create a Padlet Post on Turmoil Over Taxes

Your post should contain three sentences explaining your topic and a picture. Be sure to use correct spelling and capitalization. Use the links listed below to connect to your wall.

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Post is due Nov 4

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No Homework

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Answer questions 1-6 on page 160

Study for the quiz on Chapter 5 Sections 1 & 2

Quiz is Tuesday October 29

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Quiz on Sections 1 & 2 in Chapter 5 on Tuesday 10/29

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Finish constructed response 

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Answer questions 1-5 on page 145

Yellow, Green, and Blue

Answer questions 1-4 on page 145

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Create a wall entry on the French and Indian War
Write an entry on your assigned topic. Be sure to include a title, your name, and an image.

http://padlet.com/wall/BlueFrenchandIndian      Blue Class

http://padlet.com/wall/FrenchandIndred         Red Class

http://padlet.com/wall/YellowFrenchandIndia     Yellow Class

http://padlet.com/wall/GreenFrenchandIndian      Green Class

To create an entry double click anywhere on the page.

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What caption would you put for this cartoon?

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Have a great weekend!

Don't forget walk-a-thon money

Review for test

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Review for test

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Top Ten List is due Oct 11

Don't forget to take map quiz

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Chapter 4 Test on October 11

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Bring in Walk-a-thon money!!

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Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a surprise!!!

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Test on Chapter 4 is Friday October 11

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Answer questions 1-4 on page 130

Work on Top Ten List
Study for map quiz

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Take the 13 Colonies map quiz by 

Tuesday Oct 15

Chapter 4 Study Guide

Puritans -people who wanted to purify the Church of England

John Winthrop - first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

General Court - representative assembly in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Thomas Hooker - established Connecticut

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - a 1639 plan of government in the Puritan colony ofConnecticut, expanded the idea of representative government in the English colonies

Roger Williams - established the colony of Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson -banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for holding Bible meetings

religious tolerance - willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

common - an open field in aNew England town where cattle grazed

town meeting - a gathering where townspeople met to discuss the issues of the town

patroon -owner of a huge estate in a Dutch colony

proprietary colony- English colony I which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.

royal colony - colony under the direct control of the English crown

Quakers - Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Pennsylvania Dutch - German-speaking Protestants

cash crop - crop sold for money at market

backcountry - area along theAppalachian Mountains

Mason-Dixon Line - boundary betweenPennsylvania andMaryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern colonies

Act of Toleration - a 1649 law passed by theMaryland assembly that provided religious freedom for all Christians

Bacon’s Rebellion - a 1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and Native Americans inVirginia

indigo - plant used to make a valuable blue dye

debtor- person who cannot pay money he or she owes

slave codes - laws passed by colonists that restricted the basic rights of slaves

racism - belief that one race is superior to another

mercantilism - theory that a nation’s economic strength came from protecting and increasing its home economy by keeping strict control over its colonial trade

export- trade product sent to markets outside a country

import - trade product brought into a country

Navigation Acts -series of laws passed by the English Parliament in the 1650s that regulated trade betweenEngland and its colonies

Yankee - nickname forNew England merchants who dominated colonial trade

Triangular trade - colonial trade between New England, the West Indies, andAfrica

legislature – a group of people who have the power to make laws

Glorious Revolution- in 1688, movement that brought William and Mary to the throne ofEngland and strengthened the rights of English citizens.

bill of rights – written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

English Bill of Rights – a 1689 document that guaranteed

gentry - highest social class in the 13 colonies

middle class – in the 13 English colonies, a class that included skilled crafts workers , farmers, and some trades people

indentured servant – person who came to work without wages for period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies

Gullah - a combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americans in the South Carolina colony

Great Awakening – a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s that led colonists to question British authority

public school – school supported by taxes

tutor - private teacher

apprentice - person who learns a trade or craft from a master

dame school - private school run by a woman, usually in her own home

Enlightenment - movement inEurope during the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason

libel - act of publishing a statement that may unjustly accused

James Oglethorpe – established the colony ofGeorgia

Lord Baltimore – Sir George Calvert, a Roman Catholic who received a land grant from King Charles I to start the colony ofMaryland.

John Wheelwright- founder ofNew Hampshire

The Great Migration- the period during the 1630s and 1640s when over 20,000 people went to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Answer questions 1-5 on page 123

Green

Answer questions 1-4 on page 123

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Top Ten List Due 10/16

Green, Yellow, and Blue

Top Ten List Due October 11