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27 Cards in this Set
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Sir Walter Raleigh |
Lord given the right to claim any land in North America not already owned by a Christian leader established first English colony in North America |
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Jamestown |
Established by the Virginia company in 1607
England's first royal colony Along banks of the James River in a swampy humid area with mosquitos and malaria |
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Tobacco |
cash crop of Jamestown cigars and pipes nicotine addictive |
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John Smith |
soldier and explorer who became governor of jamestown
forced settlers to work got corn from native americans |
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Pocahontas |
Daughter of chief Powhatan Married john rolfe creating a union between Jamestown colony and indians |
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House of Burgesses |
Assembly that had right to make local laws for a colony
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Puritan |
Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican church in England
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Mayflower Compact |
Compact among Pilgrim settlers to provide order in the new colony
Pledged loyalty to England Promised to obey laws passed |
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John Wintrop |
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Led 1000 men women and children to colony |
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Roger Williams |
Minister who was forced out of Massachusetts because of his beliefs
Established new colony of Rhode Island for religious freedom and tollerance |
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Patroon |
A person given land by Dutch governments of New Amsterdam /New York and New Jersey.
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Peter Stuyvesant |
Governor of New Amsterdam
Ruled strictly - heavy taxes Surrendered without a shot when British came |
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New Amsterdam |
Main Dutch settlement of New Netherland
Manhattan island |
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William Penn |
Quaker founder of the Pennsylvania colony
Religious tolerance |
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Quaker |
Protestant group of deserters
Equality Tolerance Religious rulers were unnecessary |
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Pacifist |
refuse to fight in wars or use force
e.g. quakers |
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Lord Baltimore |
Founded catholic colony of Maryland
1st Catholic colony of North America. |
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Act of Toleration (1649) |
1649 by Maryland colony
Granted Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
Nathaniel Bacon - a wealthy young planter from the west of Virginia led rebellion against colonial government of Virginia eastern Virginians wanted westerners them to stay out of Native American territories |
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Constitution |
A formal plan of government
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Slave Labor
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Buying and selling of people who are forced to work against their will
Often treated cruelly e.g. African slaves in the US |
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Indentured servant |
People who agreed to work without pay for a certain amount of time in exchange for passage to the new world or to work off debit
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James Oglethorpe |
General who created the colony of Georgia
wanted people to be self sufficient, protestant, and hard working banned catholics, rum and slavery |
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Quebec |
First french settlement founded in 1608
Trading post |
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La Salle |
explorer who claimed the region around the Mississippi river for France
Established Louisiana |
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Junipero Serra |
Franciscan monk and missionary
setup 8 missions worked for Native American rights |
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Mission |
Religious settlement established to convert people to a particular faith |
