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18 Cards in this Set
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james 1
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Wilson was elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811).
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Jamestown
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located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14, 1607.It is the first permanent English settlement in the United States of America
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John Smith
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established the first permanent english settlment in north america
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Lord De Lawar
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independent Francis West who tried to gain power
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tobacco
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tobacco crop was used to pay the rent and to purchase goods not produced on the Farm.
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virgina company
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pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on 10 April 1606
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Headright System
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legal grant of land to settlers that helped the expansion of the thirteen British colonies.
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Powhatans
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native Powhatan people in eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607
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Maryland and the Calverts
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County that occupies the Calvert Peninsula which is bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay and on the west by the Patuxent River.
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Proprietary Rule
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they acknoedged the sovereignty of the king paying an annual fee to the crown
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toleration act
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was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. Passed on April 21, 1649
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter
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Plymouth Plantation
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The settlement, which served as the capital of the colony
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Mayflower Compact
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first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims
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William Bradford
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March 19, 1590 – May 9, 1657) was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
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Colonial Currency
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Early American currency went through several stages of development in the united states
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John Winthrop
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He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Winthrop was a respected political figure, he was criticized for his obstinacy regarding the formation of a general assembly in 1634
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Roger Williams
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was an American Protestant theologian, and the first American proponent of religious freedom
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