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44 Cards in this Set
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Roanoke
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1585 - Lost Colony - Coatan - Sir Walter Raleigh
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Virginia Company
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joint stock company - founded Virginia
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Jamestown
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1606 - 1st British
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"Starving Time"
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1609-1610 - Jamestown - canabalism
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House of Burgesses
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1619 - First legislative body in America
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Mayflower Compact
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Pilgrims - majority/ powered from governed
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Powhatan Confederacy
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helped Virginians, crops, Pocahontas & John Rolfe
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Royal Colony
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colony owned by King - CT, RI, PA, MA not at Rev
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Charter Colony
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deal with colony owner - "Rights of all Englishmen"
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Joint-Stock Company
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investors sponsor colony - want profits
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Proprietary Colony
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owned by one - gift from king - CT, MA, NY, NJ, PA, CL
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Puritans
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purify corrupt Anglican church
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Congregationalists - change within Puritans
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Great Migration
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1629-1642 John Winthrop - covenant with God - "city on a hill" - no religious freedom
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Plymouth Bay Colony
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1620 North of Virginia - 1st religious colony - North England
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Maryland
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Lord Baltimore - religious tolerance - Catholic
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Connecticut
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Thomas Hooked - equality women - left Mass.
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Rhode Island
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Roger Williams - buy land from Indians, religious freedom
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Pequot War
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Massachusetts Bay kills 400 villagers - retaliation for 9
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Anne Hutchinson
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challenged church - antinomianism - faith and God's grace - not good works
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Roger Williams
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separate church and state, can vote if not church member
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Maryland Toleration Act
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guaranteed religious freedom
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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unified Conn. Towns - first Constitution
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New Amsterdam, New York
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Dutch trading post taken by British invasion quick
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New Jersey
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king gift to friends, sold to investors
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Carolina
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N. Car - old Virginians
S. Car - like sugar plant of Caribbean |
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King Philip's War
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Metacomet - allied Indians - fought settlers - ended Natives on coast, united colonists - devastated towns
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Tidewater vs. Backcountry - felt not protected - burned Jamestown - attacked government
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Pennsylvania
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William Pann - Quaker - religious freedom, nice to Indians - pacifists
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Dominion of New England
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Britain tries to stop illegal trade - rules group of colonies as one until 1692
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Glorious Revolution in England
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overthrow James - Mass. > royal colony > all Protestants can now vote - not only Puritans
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Delaware
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New Sweden
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Georgia
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failed experiment for convicts buffer zone
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Harvard College
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1636 - pretty important school - in Massachusetts
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Halfway Covenant
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Puritan kids baptized automatically - even without "Grace" - but still can't vote
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Salem witchcraft trials
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1692 - 130 "witches" jailed/executed - hysteria
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Scotch Irish
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white trash - Appalachian mountains
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Great Awakening
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religious movement - God's pissed - united colonies - Jonathan Edwards - Sinners Hands Angry God
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College of William and Mary
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Virginia college
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Peter Zenger Case
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legally made fun of governor - freedom of press
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Stono Rebellion
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1739 slave rebellion - stole weapons, killed men, freed slaves - hid Florida - led to slave codes
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Regulators Uprising
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Carolina - rebelled against high taxes - more rebels
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salutary neglect
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Britain can't enforce Navigation Acts - America starts smuggling
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triangular trade
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European goods, African slaves, American sugar/natural resources
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