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Virginia Company |
Establish a permanent colony in America that would make a profit for the company a joint stock by King James I |
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Act Concerning Religion |
(Maryland Toleration Act) Law giving religious tolerance for Trinitarian (Doctrine ofTrinity) Christians |
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Puritans |
Ruled by God, strict on moral or religious matters. Sought to purify the Church of England |
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Tobacco |
Nicotine-richleaves of an American plant |
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Quakers |
Religious Society of Friends; abolition of slavery movement and equal rights for women.Religious group in England and America whose members believed all personspossessed the inner light or spirit of god |
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MayflowerCompact |
Signedin 1620 aboard the Mayflower before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, thedocument committed the group to majority rule government. First writtenframework of government |
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Indenturedservant |
Servantson a contract and in exchanged for a passage to the New World |
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MagnaCharter |
Latin for the Great Charter. Charter of Liberties. To make peace between theunpopular King and a group of rebel barons (Lords). Promised protection ofchurch rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment |
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Levellers |
Political movement during the English Civil War that emphasized popular sovereignty (rule by the people), extended suffrage (right to vote), equality before the law, and religious tolerance, all of which were expressed in the manifesto"Agreement of the People" |
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Headright system in America |
Createdin 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. Used as a way to attract new settlers to theregion and address the labor shortage. Needed large supplies of workers fortobacco farming. New settlers who paid their way to Virginia received 50 acresof landbody |
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Houseof Burgesses |
Firstlegislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. Establishedby Virginia Company. Encouraged English craftsmen to settle in North Americaand to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants |
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Half-WayCovenant |
formof partial church membership created by New England. Promoted by ReverendSolomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies weredrifting away from their original religious purpose |
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Cahokia |
Moundsin Cahokia Illinois. Largest and most urban settlement in the Mississippianculture before Columbus even sailed. Now considered the United Statespose |
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PuebloIndians |
AmericanIndians who live in pueblos and have a long tradition of farming |
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Coverture |
Legaldoctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights and obligations weresubsumed (absorb) by those of her husband. Unmarried woman, feme sole, had theright to own property and make contracts in her own name |
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Reconquista |
Reconquestof Spain from the Moors completed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492. Ordered Mall Muslims and Jews to convert to Catholicism or leave the country to ensure religious unification. |
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Hernan Cortes |
Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire andbrought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castilein the early 16th century. Part of the Spanish colonizer who began the firstphase of the Spanish colonization of the America |
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TheColumbian Exchange |
Culturaland biological exchanged between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants,animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American waysof life |
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Bartolomede las Casas |
Protectorof the Indians. First resident Bishop of Chiapas |
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Repartimiento |
Distribution,partition, or division was a colonial forced labor party imposed upon theindigenous (native) population of Spanish America and the Philippines. Nativesforced to do low-paid or unpaid labor for certain weeks, months each year onSpanish owned farms, mines, workshops, and public projects |
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PuebloRevolt |
(PopesRebellion) uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanishcolonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico. Present day New Mexico |
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Jamestown |
FirstEnglish settlement of the Virginia Colony in America |
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importanceof land |
Landgave people to vote, power and rights (House of Lords) |
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intermarriagein English colonies |
Didnot marry Indians, but bought over their woman and married them |
