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29 Cards in this Set
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Virginia Company of London
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140 men and boys set sail to colonize Southern Virginia, the area was later name after the king: Jamestown
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Chief Powhatan
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Wise Indian who viewed the colonists as irrational & foolish foreign men.
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Captain John Smith
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A wise English adventurer who was disgusted with the colonists @ Jamestown
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Pocahontas
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Powhatan's daughter who pleaded her father to not kill John Smith. Smith's leadership helped establish Jamestown, VA as the 1st permanent English settlement
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Starving Time (1609)
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After Smith returned to England, chaos & famine ruled the colony.
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Tobacco
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an american plant unknown to Europeans before Colombus' journey
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John Rolfe (1585-1622)
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Introduced Tobacco
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Indentured servants
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a type of slave system, people had to work (usually for 7 years) to pay back to voyage from europe to america
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Puritan (1600s)
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Radical protestants being persecutes by the church of England, puritans wanted to "purify" and separate from the corruption of the English church
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The Pilgrims
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a group of English puritans who set sail for America to escape religious persecution
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Plymouth
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the 1st English PURITAN settlement, massachusetts
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Mayeflower Compact
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Puritans created a government that promised political power to the people
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Squanto
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A native who spoke English & taught the Pilgrims how to grow, catch, and cook food.
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Thanksgiving
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Pilgrims invite Natives on a 3-day feats of squash, beans, corn, wild turkeys, ducks, and geese. Natives brought deer
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French Indian war
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Britain & English colonists fight AGAINST French&indian to gain Ohio.
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George Washington
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a young man who leg the VA militia into battle against France. FAILS in 1754
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Albany congress
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the colonists met with Iroquois Indians & asked the Indians to hep them fight again France. Iroquois denied.
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Benjamin Franklin
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American politican, writer, scientist, and painter who proposed a radical idea: colonial union for military & economic strength. Ideas rejected by the albany congress.
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Africa
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2nd largest continent composed of dynamic warriors and over 1,000 languages
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Slave Trade of west africa
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grew rich by selling slaves to Europeans
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Slave raiders
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african merchants raided isolated villages w.o a centralized government to protect them
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Kongo (congo)
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Massive slave vaid was commited on the people near the congo river
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The middle passage
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the horrifying 5,000 mile journey across Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas
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Virginia & Maryland Slaves
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lived in single-room cabins located @ the end of a tobacco field (isolated many miles from the owner's house)
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Overseers
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"over" looked or supervised slaves to make sure they did their tasks; field slaves were severely abused.
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Artisans
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virginia-born slaves became skilled workers & began to help build and improve VA towns
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House slaves
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Envied by field slaves but they were more likely beaten, raped, or killed by their owners
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South Carolina (rice country)
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rice was complex, Africans were the best at growing rice & it became a major plantation during age of colonization
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Cinque
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led a major revolt AGAINST europeans slaves on a ship (amistad) traveling through the middle passage.
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