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18 Cards in this Set
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captain john smith
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a colonist who complained that the colonists work was poor and was a bad settlement site. He took comtrol of the colony and forced settlers to build better housing
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powhatan confederacy
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allaince of algonquian indians who gave colonists food only if they cme on a friendly manner and they also taught them gow to grow corn. leader wahunsomacock
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headright system
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systen set up by the london company that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to virginia
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indentured servants
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colonists who recieved free passahe to morth anerica in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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planters
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wealthy farmers with large plantations
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nathaniel bacon
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a wealthy frontier planter and a relative of the governor who burned down jamestown led indentured servants
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sect
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a religious group
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separatists
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radical group of puritans who wanted ot cut all ties with the church of england
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immigrants
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people who move to another country after leaving their homeland
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mayflower compact
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document written by the pilgrims that estableshed general guidelines for self government
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dissenters
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people who desagree with official religious or political opinions
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the great migration
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between 1630 and 1640 tens of thousands of english men, women, and children left england and moved to the carribbean and new england
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covenant
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sacred agreement
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fundamental orders of connecticut
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set of principles that made connecticuts government more democratic
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massachusetts bay company
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the king gave a group of puritans a charter from england who established a colony in the area known as new england
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proprietors
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owners of maryland
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toleration act of 1649
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maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of christians a crime; one of the first laws protecting religious tolerance to be passed in the english colonies lord baltimore
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quakers
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society of friends; protestant sect founded in 1640s in england whose members believed that salvation was available to all people
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