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34 Cards in this Set
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Glorious Revolution
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Protestant protest against restricted Catholics
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Colonial regions – New England, Middle, Chesapeake, Southern
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New England--Prosporous, protestant
Middle--Quakers Chesapeake--Catholic, resorts to feudalism Southern--Indentured servants, hard to survive |
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Oliver Cromwell
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Puritan general that governed England as Lord Protector for almost 10 years
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Joint-Stock Company
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Business organization in which tons of people could invest w/o fear of bankruptcy.
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Richard Hakluyt
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Never saw America, but strong ideas helped shaped the opinion of the New World
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Avarice
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Extreme Greed for material gain
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Captain John Smith
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Kept Virginia from turning into another Roanoke and helped organize the settlement
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Sir John Rolfe
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First settler to start growing tobacco
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Sir Edwin Sandys
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Set up a headright land system and urged settlers to not base their crops on tobacco
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Virginia Company
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Helped settle Virginia but eventually collapsed
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Headright
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Granted to colonists that covered their own transportation expenses, giving them a 50-acre lot for only a small annual rent.
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House of Burgesses
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Elective representative assembly that helped provide plantation owners a voice in government
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Sir George Calvert
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Decided to start a Catholic Colony, but failed in doing so in Newfoundland
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Lord Baltimore
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See Sir George Calvert; son gained a charter for Maryland
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Separtists
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Those that believed the Church of England had too many Catholic procedures and should be purely Protestant and separated themselves from the church
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William Bradford
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Helped the Pilgrims organize themselves and convinced them that they could survive in America
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Mayflower Compact
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Document uniting the Pilgrims who had no authorization to create a civil government
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Squanto
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Patuxt Indian who became sold as a slave and escaped, learned English, and welcomed and helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth
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Puritans
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Wholly religious group taking Calvinism to an extreme, and arguing that those God has saved would try to follow the Scriptures
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John Winthrop
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Helped gain a charter for creating the Massachusetts colony and believed God would create somewhat of an apocalypse
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Congregationalism
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A type of Church-based government ruled by the congregation
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Antinomianism
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The belief that God doesn't expect Christians to obey any moral laws and that they aren't required to observe the Old Testament Law for salvation
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Governor Nicolls
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First British governor of the New York Colonies (in office 1664-1668)
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Duke’s Laws
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Set of guidelines laid out in Long Island governing almost every facet of life
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland, expanded the settlement of New Amsterdam
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George Fox
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Founded the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers
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“Freemen”
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Name for voters in colonial Massachusetts
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Roger Williams
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Started the first Baptist church in America, was an advocate for fair treatment of Native Americans, and started a colony for refugee religious minorities.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after accused of practicing antinomianism in her private Bible meetings
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William Penn
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Founder of Pennslyvannia
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Charter of Liberties
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Also called the Coronation Charter, it was written by Henry I at his Coronation and bound the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles
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True and Absolute Lord Proprietors of Carolina
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8 Men (and their heirs) were identified by this by a charter granted to them by Charles II and were given broad feudal powers over the Carolina colonies
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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Adopted by the lord proprietors of Carolina but never ratified by the assembly and abandoned by 1700
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James Oglethorpe
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Founder of Georgia
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