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Who established England's first American colony in Roanoke, but the colony failed. |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
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In order to set up a colony, organizers had to obtain a __________ from England's monarch, which was a written contract giving rights to establish a colony. |
charter |
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After most of Jamestown's first colonists died, a soldier and adventurer named _________________ took control and helped bring order to the colony. |
John Smith |
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One who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America |
Indentured Servant |
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The __________ was the first representative form of government in the colonies. |
House of Burgesses |
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After an uprising by the Powhatan, King James I turned Virginia into a ____________________ |
royal colony |
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An economic system that European nations used to increase their wealth by selling more products to foreign nations than buying from them. |
Mercantilism |
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Established in 1607, this was the first permanent English colony in North America |
Jamestown |
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A company funded by a group of investors |
join-stock company |
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A person who puts money into a project to earn a profit |
Investor |
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What did the colonies provide to England? |
wealth |
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The first years in Jamestown were difficult because 1) 2) 3) 4)
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1) illness 2) settlers wasting time and effort searching for gold instead of building or farming 3) harsh climate 4) lack of food |
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Unable to find gold the colonists discovered this product that would bring them wealth |
tobacco |
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Written by the Pilgrims before landing in New England
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Mayflower Compact |
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Believed that sermons and ministers were obstacles to the direct experience of God |
Quakers |
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a Puritan that founded Rhode Island, a colony that guaranteed religious tolerance and separation of church and state |
Roger Williams |
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Who founded Boston, which became the most important town in New England and wanted to reform the Church of England |
Puritans |
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A separatist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom and founded Plymouth |
Pilgrims |
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The ship in which the Pilgrims sailed and landed near New England. |
Mayflower |
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Puritan dissenter who fled to Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts |
Anne Hutchinson |
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a person who disagrees with an official church |
dissenter |
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to mistreat |
persecute |
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acceptance of different opinions |
tolerance |
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to force someone to leave a place |
banish |
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the movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to New England between 1630 and 1640 |
Great Migration |
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Puritan values included 1) 2) 3)
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1) hardwork 2) education 3) representative government
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The owner, or proprietor, of the colony of Maryland |
Lord Baltimore |
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The Southern colony that was founded on the Chesapeake Bay with the intention of being a society free from religious conflicts was called |
Georgia |
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James Oglethorpe received a charter in 1732 to create a colony that welcomed debtors and poor who wanted to make a new start |
diversity |
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The Georgia colony promised religious toleration in order to attract settlers because it was hoped that the settlers would protect the English colonies against Florida, a colony belonging to ______ |
Spain |
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Charles Town, or Charleston, became a refuse for French Protestants called________ |
Huguenuts |
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Maryland law which forbade (outlawed) religious persecution |
Act of Toleration |
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One who protested the teachings of the Catholic church and created a variety of religious groups including Quakers, Baptists, Puritans, and Anglicans |
Protestant |
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Quaker that founded Pennsylvania and received land from Charles II as payment of a debt to his family |
William Penn |
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Built by the Danish along the Hudson River in what is now New York State |
New Netherland |
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Charles Town or |
Charleston |
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Received a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland |
patroon |
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governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland and expanded the colony by taking over the nearby colony of New Sweden in 1655. |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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Religious groups that favored simple and peaceful lifestyles that moved to Pennsylvania: 1) 2) 3) 4) |
1) Mennonites 2) Dunkers 3) Moravians 4)Amish |
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What role Pocahanuts has? |
Peace Maker |
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What was Roger Williams phrase/quote? |
Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of god |
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Plymouth |
Pilgrims |
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How many Colonies? |
13 |
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Items in England |
Raw material |
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Examples of colonization |
gold, economic wealth |
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Define Toleration |
accepting to faith |
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First permanent settlement |
Jamestown |
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Clothing style |
modest, pride |
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Dissenters from Massachusetts |
Hutchenson & Roger Williams |
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Major faith in Jamestown |
Baptist |
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How many settlers for new land |
50 |
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Hero of Jamestown |
Smith |
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Purpose of Mayflower Compact |
leader didn't have to much power, Christian faith |
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export/import |
mercanitilism |
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Faith in Pennsylvania |
Quaker |
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First Colony |
Roanoke |
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What are the Middle Colonies: |
Pennsylvania Delaware New Jersey New York |
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Explain why settlers came to middle colonies: |
1) rich soil and mild winters 2) great farming |
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Patroon System |
wealth, 50 settlers, attract settlers, land farm, hunt and fish, fur trade |
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Middle Colonies |
William Penn - Quaker |
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the major cash crop in Maryland that would see the use of slave laborers |
tobacco |
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people that would be willing to work for 4-7 years without pay in exchange for free passage to America |
Indentured Servant |
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which colony was a safe haven for Catholics |
Maryland |
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the views of slavery initially in Georgia |
anti-slavery |
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the person that founded or governed Maryland |
Lord Baltimore |
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French protestants that fled Europe to seek religious freedom |
Hugenots |
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colony that was started by Jim Oglethorpe and was a haven for poor and debtors |
Georgia |
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one who protests or opposes the Catholic church |
Protestant |
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the major cash crop in the Carolina that would see the use of slave laborers |
ricedocumen |
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t which forbid religious persecution in the colony of Maryland |
Act of Toleration |
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Founder of Roanoke |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
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mercantilism |
economic system |
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Jamestown |
first permanent English settlement |
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John Smith |
leader of the Jamestown colony |
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headright |
land given to one who could pay his or her own way to the colonies |
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House of Burgessess |
the Virginia assembly |