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61 Cards in this Set
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Who was John Winthrop? |
A Massachusetts governor who didn't think high of the Chesapeake settlements |
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What did England Colonization focus around? |
Entrepreneurship, religious freedom, and exploration |
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What roles played a part in English Migration Patterns? |
Economic, religious, and political |
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What did Native Americans do in response to English Expansion? |
Declared all out war |
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Why did English relocate to London? |
Economic opportunities |
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Which two kings often fought with parliament? |
James and Charles |
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Who was the English Civil War fought between? |
Royalists and separatists |
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Who ruled England after the English Civil War? |
Oliver Cromwell |
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What happened to James the Second when and why? |
He was permanently exiled in the Glorious Revolution for lifting some Catholic restriction |
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Why did some English advocate to settle in the Americas? |
The natural resources |
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What was a joint stock company? |
A company in which investors could invest without fear of bankruptcy |
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Why did Jamestown fail? |
The English kept their traditional lifestyle of only some people working at any given time |
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Who was Thomas Smith? |
The leader of the London Company |
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What did James Smith do? |
Seized control of Jamestown and under strict military rule kept the people alive |
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What was the Starving Time? |
A time in English Expansion where harsh winter beat brutally on the Virginia colonies and drove some colonists to cannibalism |
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How did the powhatan Indians fall? |
The Powhatan Indian Empire fell trying to drive Virginians from America |
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Who was John Rolfe? |
He was a settler who realized the potential tobacco had in the English market for Jamestown |
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What was Jamestowns major export? |
Tobacco |
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What was the House of Burgesses? |
The first representative assembly |
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What was a head right? |
A 50 acre plot of land given to colonists for small annual fees |
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What were indentured servants? |
Servants who agreed to serve a master for a certain number of years in return for land, passage to America, clothes, and tools |
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What was the country court? |
A court where representatives from the 8 different parts of Virginia met in a court of law |
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Who was George Calvert? |
The driving force for Maryland colonization |
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Who was cicilious |
He founded Maryland |
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What was Maryland known for? |
Being a safe heaven for Catholics |
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Due to Lord Baltimore's demand for secrecy he ended up being close to a... |
Palatine Lord |
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How was the relationship between Lord Baltimore and Maryland? |
Maryland refused to follow his rules |
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The act much concerning religion did what? |
Extended tolerance to all individuals who accepted the divinity of Christ |
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What happened during Plundering Time? |
Leonard Calvert was driven from Maryland by an armed group |
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Where did the pilgrims come from? |
Scroony Manor |
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Who was William Bradford? |
The leader of the mayflower company and writer of Of Plymouth Plantation |
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What was the Mayflower Compact? |
A contract to combine the Plymouth colony into a civil body |
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Who was Squanto? |
An English speaking Indian who helped Plymouth tremendously |
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What were Puritans? |
People who wished to purify the Church of England |
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Who was William Fraud? |
a bishop who went against everything Puritans stood for |
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What was the Massachusetts Bay Company? |
The Massachusetts Bay Company was a group of Puritans who planned on going to America to escape English rule |
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What was the Cambridge Agreement? |
An agreement for Winthrop and several others to leave England on a certain day |
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What is congresionalism |
The ability to have a church free if interference from outside sources |
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Why did Massachusetts succeed? |
Because of the unity of the feeling of a common purpose |
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What was Laws and Liberties? |
The first English code of law |
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What two people have Massachusetts trouble and what happened to them? |
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and they were exiled to Rhode Island |
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Massachusetts spawned what four colonies? |
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and, New Haven |
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What did Thomas Hooker do? |
Defined Congressional church polity |
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What was the Fundamental Order? |
Connecticut's blueprint for a civil government |
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Who discovered New Haven? |
Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport |
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What condition did Rhode Island stay in |
Separated by different ideas |
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Henry Hudson was employed by whom? |
The Dutch |
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What outposts did the Dutch Went India Company sponsor? |
Fort Orange (Albany) and New Amsterdam (New York) |
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Who captured New Netherlands for the English? |
Richard Nicolls |
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What was Dukes Law |
It established religion tolerance and formed governments in New Netherlands |
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Who was the Duke of York? |
James the Second |
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What were Quakers |
Believers of an extreme version of Antinomianism |
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Who was George Fox? |
A Quaker who gained followers for the Quaker movement |
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Who was William Penn? |
He founded Pennsylvania |
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What was the Frame of Government? |
A document giving Penn the option to give Pennsylvania whatever government he wanted |
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The Charter of Liberty did what? |
turned Pennsylvania into a one house legislation |
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What was going on in the Carolinas? |
White farmers worked black slaves |
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What did Americans demand in order to migrate to the Carolinas? (3) |
A representative assembly, liberty of conscience, and liberal head right system |
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Anthony Ashley Cooper and Joseph West did what? |
Settled complies along the Ashley river (Carolinas) |
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Carolinas main crop was what? |
Rice |
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Who was Georgia founded by? |
James Oglethorpe |
