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44 Cards in this Set
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Pilgrim
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first English settlers in Massachusetts, left England due to religious conflicts
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Separatists
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radical group of puritans who wanted to cut all ties with the Anglican church
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Puritans
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People who wanted to purify the Anglican Church
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Mayflower Compact
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Document written by pilgrim settlers that established a self-governing colony based on majority rule of male church members
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Great Migration
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Mass migration of some 600,000 English people to the Americas in the 1600's
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New England way
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Cooperation between church and state that that was the basis for the Puritan commonwealth
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Fundamental orders of Connecticut
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document that is widely considered to be the first written constitution in the world.
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William Bradford
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He went to the Netherlands seeking "Some place of better advantage and less danger."
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Squanto
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Indian who spoke English. Taught the pilgrims how to grow crops.
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John Winthrop
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Leader of the group of Christians who went to America to share the gospel.
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Thomas Hooker
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Minister in Mass.
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Roger Williams
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Minister who believed in separation of state and church
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Anne Hutchinson
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Puritan who found refuge in Rhode Island after refusing to follow the New England Way
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Abolitionists
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a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
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Cecilius Calvert
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owner of millions of acres in upper Chesapeake
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Toleration Act
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degree of religious freedom
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Nathaniel Bacon
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raised an army of western settlers and attacked American Indians on the frontier.
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Bacon's rebellion
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Poor farmers wanted some of the land that was signed over to the Powhatans in 1946
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house of Burgesses
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Virginias representative assembly of large planters
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Middle Passage
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the voyage across the atlantic
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Olaudah Equiano
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man who was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery
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Quakers
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members of a protestant sect that rejected wealth and even clergy
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Charles II
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restored monarchy's power in England
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Restoration
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Era in which Charles II Restored the monarchy's power
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Peter Stuyvesant
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the colony governor of new amsterdam
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William Penn
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proprietor of a large tract of land near new york
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James Oglethorpe
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wanted to start anew for the English poor
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Mercantilism
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belief in the benefits of profitable trading
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Balance of trade
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to export more then is imported
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Navigation acts
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series of mercantilist laws
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James II
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duke of york
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Edmund Andros
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governor of the dominion
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glorious revolution
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protestant opposition staged a bloodless rebellion
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George Whitefield
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minister who spread the message of the great awakening
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Enlightenment
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a revolution in ideas
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Great Awakening
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a series of religious revivals
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Jonathon Edwards
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launched new England's great awakening
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Cavalier&Salle
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Explored the Mississippi river.
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Metacomet
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Wampanoag cheif
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Iroquois league
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a political confederation of American Indian nations that spoke one of the Iroquoian languages
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Albany Plan of Union
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loose confederation to promote the defense.
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William Pitt
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full control of the war efforts.
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James Wolfe
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British General
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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
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French General
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