American History Ap Ch. 2

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Glorious Revolution

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Revolution in Britain in 1688 which parliament dispelled King James II and giving the crown to his daughter, Protestant ruler Queen Mary II.

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Colonial Regions -New England, Middle, Chesapeake, Southern

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Distinct regions in colonial America

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Oliver Cromwell

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English General and Puritan Statesmen who became Lord Protector of England after the fall of the crown.

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Joint-Stock Company

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An incorporated business with transferable shares of stock, with shareholders having limited liability

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Richard Hakluyt

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English geographer and editor of explorers' narratives, responsible for renewing interest in colonizing the New World.

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Avarice

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Insatiable greed for riches.

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Captain John Smith

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English explorer and adventurer, who helped found Jamestown, and helped it survive.

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Sir John Rolfe

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Settler of Jamestown, who married Pocahontas, and discovered how to turn tobacco into a valuable export,

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Sir Edwin Sandys

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Helped to grow Virginia by attracting more wealthy settlers with his ideas of transforming Virgina

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Virgina Company

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Company in charge of the Virgina Charter

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Headright

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50-acre plot of land guaranteed to colonists who cover their own transportation to America, in exchange for a small rent fee annually.

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House of Burgesses

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Assembly of Representatives in Colonial Virginia.

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Sir George Calvert

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Lord Baltimore, Catholic Secretary of state who was removed from office after that announcement. Wanted a Colony for Catholic refuges in the Chesapeake area.

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Lord Baltimore

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Founder of Maryland.

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Separatists

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Persons who withdraw from an established church.

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William Bradford

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Leader of the Puritan Pilgrims after former governor's death. Led many expeditions, to find area to establish Plymouth, created the modern day Thanksgiving.

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Mayflower Compact

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An agreement to establish a government by the Pilgrims, after they landed in Cape Cod, a place out of their former jurisdiction.

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Squanto

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Native American who could speak English after living in England. Helped the Pilgrims with hunting and agriculture after welcoming them.

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Puritans

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Peoples who want to purify the teachings of a church

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John Winthrop

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First Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Congregationalism

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Form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent.

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Antinomianism

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beliefs that Christians are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace.

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Governor Nicolls

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First British Colonial governor of New York

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Duke's Laws

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List of laws covering all facets of life on Long Island. First alphabetical list of laws in English

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Dutch colonial administrator in America. Last governor in New Netherlands.

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George Fox

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English religious leader and writer, Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers.

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Freemen

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Colonial men of New England, allowed to vote on leaders in the Colonial government.

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Roger Williams

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Founder of Rhode Island Colony after being dispelled from the Mass. Bay Colony for his preaching of extreme seperatism.

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Anne Hutchinson

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American colonist and religious leader, believing most all ministers were out of touch. She was banished from the Colony of Massachusetts.

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William Penn

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Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania.

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Charter of Liberties

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Written proclamation by King Henry I to bind the king and parliaments to certain laws.

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True and Absolute Lord Proprietors of Carolina

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Under the charter of Carolina, 8 men were given true and absolute power to rule and delegate the colony in the interests of England. Given feudal powers.

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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

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Written by John Locke, helped set up the basis of government in Carolina.

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James Ogelthorpe

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British general and founder of the colony of Georgia.