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23 Cards in this Set
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-1600's captain who provided protection to Plymouth from the Indians
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Captain Myles Standish
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-Governor of Plymouth 30 times
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William Bradford
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-Governor of Massachusetts Bay for 19 years
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John Winthrop
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-Massacusetts preacher who criticized the Church of England and held interrogations of those claiming to have received a conversion
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John Cotton
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-wrote "Day of Doom," describing the details of hell
-extremely popular |
Michael Wigglesworth
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-woman who hailed antinomianism
-If predestination did exist, people didn't have to act right since their fate was already decided -claimed to have received these revelations from God -banished to Rhode Island |
Anne Hutchinson
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-zealous preacher who wanted a complete separation from the Church of England
-Questioned the legality of the Bay's charter since they took land from the Indians -declared church could not regulate people's lives -founded Rhode Island |
Roger Williams
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-led a group of men into Connecticut
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-Reverend Thomas Hooker
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-America's first written constitution, created by Connecticut
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Fundamental Orders
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-Colony southwest of Connecticut
-Connecticut later adsorbed it |
New Haven
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-Wampanoag Indian who befriended and helped the Bay colonists
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Squanto
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-War fought in Massachusetts inbetween 1st and 2nd Powhatan Wars
-spurred by influx of white settlers -tribe nearly whiped out |
Pequot War
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-leader of King Phillips War
-attempted to unite the Indians in New England -bloody war -Metacom's village suffered crushing defeat |
Metacom
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-Organization of four colonies to defend against Indians
-Puritan only: Bay Colony, Plymouth, New Haven, and Connecticut -weak, but was the first step toward American unity |
New England Confederation
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-controlled by Sir Edmund Andros
-to strengthen colonial defense against indians -to tighten Charles II grip on America -enforced the Navigation Acts |
Dominion of New England
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-limitted American trade exclusively to Britain during the 1700's
-resulted in smuggling |
Navigation Acts
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-ran the Dominion of New England
-his men drank and swore in Puritan New England, making them very unpopular -Openly supported Anglican church, hated in New England |
Sir Edmund Andros
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-leader of Dominion of New England
-stopped town meetings, restricted the press, courts, and schools, revoked land titles, abolished local assemblies, and taxed without representation |
Sir Edmund Andros
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-Dutch explorer who founded New Netherland in New York
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Henry Hudson
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-large tracts of land offered to Dutch people who settled 30 people in the town
-created a mass mix of people, unlike New England |
Patroonships
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-Dutch general sent to get the Swedes out of Delaware
-Scarred them out without even firing |
Peter Stuyvesant
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-Brother of Charles II who was given New Ansterdam
-British fleet arrived to take this area from the Netherlands -Surrenderred without a shot |
Duke of York
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-Founder of Pennsylvania
-Quaker -Squatters characterized it |
William Penn
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