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17 Cards in this Set
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John Smith
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He was the founder of the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. He founded the settlement in 1607.
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Jamestown
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It was the first permanent settlement founded by the London Company on May 14, 1607. The James River was an important point of control during the American Civil War.
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Joint Stock Company
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Its a type of business involving a partnership involving two or more legal persons. These companies help the economy in the United States because many good were traded with Europe.
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Indentured Servant
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A worker under a contract for a period of time in which he worked in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, lodging, and other necessities. This servant worked on the fields, growing a variety of goods that were valuable in to the people in the world.
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Puritans
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They are a group of English-speaking protestants that believe that everything was either good or evil. They were consider the first American Individualist responsible for a paranoia.
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John Winthrop
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The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was elected for a total of 12 times.
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King Phillips War
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It was a war between the Native Americans that inhabit those areas and their allies and the English Colonist and their allies.
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The Headright System
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The legal grant of land to a settlers. This system started to be used in Jamestown, Virginia in 1618 to at attempt to solve labor shortage problems.
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The Calvert
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First people and founders of Maryland in 1643.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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An uprising in Virginia by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676, due to Native American raids that occurred in Virginia.
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William Penn
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He was the founder of the Providence of Pennsylvania later known as the State of Pennsylvania.
He was also an important philosopher. |
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Quakers
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They are members of a Religious Society of Friends. They believe in pacifism and their testimony.
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Mercantilism
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It's an economic theory, a from of economic nationalism. It's a positive balance of trade with other nations (exports minus imports).
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Navigation Acts
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A series of laws that restricted foreign shipping between England and its colonies. A factor that lead to the American Revolution.
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Anne Hutchinson
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She was a woman that lead bible studies for women and later for men. She was an unauthorized minister of a church discussion group.
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John Coode's Rebellion
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A rebellion in which Coode and other protestants resent that the political offices were held by Catholics and the Calverts. Coode attacked the State house with 700 men, which they won and set up a new set of officials.
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Roger Williams
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An American Protestant and the first American to propose the idea of religious freedom. He also began the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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