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What is tolerance?
The acceptance of different ways of thinking and believing.
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What is revolt?
To rise up against, to rebel.
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What is an abolitionist?
A person who believed that slavery is wrong and should end.
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What is Jersey?
Where Sir George Carteret was originally from.
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What is 1,400?
The number of Quakers who had made their homes in West Jersey in 1680.
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What is legacy?
Property or cultural ideas or items that have been passed down from an earlier time.
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What is a conflict?
A disagreement between two or more people in a group.
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What is a treaty?
A formal agreement between two or more people or groups.
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What are Quakers?
A group of people who came to New Jersey for religious freedom.
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What is Perth Amboy?
The capital city of East Jersey
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What is proprietorship?
A large land grant from a ruler to an individual.
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What is voyage?
A long journey.
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What is to convert?
To convince people to change from their religion and follow another one.
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Who is the Duke of York?
Gave Sir George Carteret the proprietorship that is now New Jersey.
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What is Burlington?
The capital city of West Jersey
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What is a colony?
A settlement far from the country that rules it.
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What is an artifact?
An object made by humans, usually from the past.
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What is persecution?
Cruel treatment aimed at a particular group of people.
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What is homeland.
What colonists often name towns and cities in the colonies after.
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What is 1676?
The year New Jersey was divided into East and West.
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What is wampum?
The shell beads used as a kind of money by some early Native American groups in Eastern North America
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What is surplus?
An amount that is more than what is needed.
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What is an archaeologist?
A scientist who studies objects and structures left by humans from the past.
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What is Amboy?
Capital city name taken from the Lenape language.
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What is 1702?
The year East and West Jersey were joined together into a royal colony.
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