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john smith
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who:a Capitan
when:1608 significance:he saved james town from extincetion |
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jamestown
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what:a town that was founded in new world
what:was a first English colony significance the first colony to be established in the new world |
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joint stock company
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what:a company started by england
when:in th mid 1600's significance:it was created by jamestown |
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indentured servant
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what:where servants and would work to 7 years
when:in 1773 significance:they helped labor and work gather food and other things |
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puritans
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what: they where English people of the protestant religion
when:in the 16th and 17th significance:they where discriminated against |
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john Winthrop
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what:he and some wealthy puritans got a grant from the king
when:in 1630 significance:he helped get the Massachusetts's company started |
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king philips war
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what:was called meta com rebellion
when:during 1674 1675 significance:it was a conflict between native American people and the English |
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the headright system
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what:was a land grant
when:was in 1618 significance:was due to low work so they stared selling tobacco |
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the calverts
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what: a group of people that would convert religions
when:in he early colonies significance:promoted that religion should be by choice |
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bacons rebellion
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what:bacon was banished
when:he gathered a few supporters significance:the rebelled against the governor for banishing him |
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William Penn
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who:a men from england
what:he wanted democracy and religious freedom significance:he wanted democracy and religious freedom |
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quakers
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who where people from Europe who wanted to escape religious oppression
when:in the early 1600's significance wanted there own colony where responsible for Philadelphia's |
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mercantilism
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what an idea that they should only trade with them
when it was employed in the navigation acts significance idea created that helped with trading |
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navigation acts
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what banned trade with other colonies
when during 1660 after king philips war significance mad people angry |
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roger Williams
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who a man who was a protestant
what he promoted protestant ideally significance started the first baptist church in America |
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Anne Hutchinson's
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who held bible studies a woman in 1643
what she played a major role in puritans significance was put to death because of her beliefs |
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john codes
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leader of a rebellion that over took Maryland government in 1689
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rebellion
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what refusing to obey orders
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Inca
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was a civilization in the Indies had a civil war and the on they where sperate
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maya
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was a very smart civilization there ideas have much of what we use today but the mystery disapeered
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aztec
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was a warrior civilization from Mexico they fought many wars and where polytheistic
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Inca
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was a civilization in the Indies had a civil war and the on they where sperate
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maya
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was a very smart civilization there ideas have much of what we use today but the mystery disapeered
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aztec
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was a warrior civilization from Mexico they fought many wars and where polytheistic
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chaco canyon
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an area where ancient Indians called their home it is now a national park
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woodland Indians
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Indians who where their before the colonist had great farming skills and they where run out of there territory
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mobile socialites
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they where an early Indians tribe who just liken the woodland Indians got run out
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agriculture
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in the Indian tribe agriculture was big part of their survival and they had many methods of it and how to produce many crops
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Leif Erickson
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he was a European he was also the first American to land in America or the new world
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prince Henry the navigator
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helped build the Portuguese empire and also find many new places he was know for his great navigation skills
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Christopher Columbus
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was a navigator who lead the European ships and accidentally found America
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Ferdinand Magellan
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was a sailor and was the first to sail across the pacific ocean he also severed in a battle
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The Conquistadors
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where Spanish solider who showed up after the colonists bin a different part of the new world that had not been inhabited
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Cortes
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was the last name of a famous navigator also a king at the time
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Fransisco Pizarro
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he was the man who concurred the Inca empire and he also founded Lima
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Ordinance of Discovery
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what the Aztecs thought of to be a new world or new universe of some kinda
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Catholic Missionaries
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they where Spanish people who would go around promoting catholic ideology and trying to get people to convert
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St. Augustine 1565
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was founded in that year it has always been occupied by Europeans
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Ecomiendas
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a labor system that was founded by the Spanish during a crowed
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Pueblo Revolt
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was from august 10-21 was an uprising revolt because of the Spanish colonizing
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Mestizo
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term used to identify the mixed Europeans
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John Cabot
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an Italian navigator who was said that he found north America first and it was on there first voyage
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Richard Hakluyt
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English writer how was famous for his bible interpretations
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Doctrine of Predestination
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what john Calvin did to try and justify his actions
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The English Reformation
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was a number pf events that happened in England in the 16th century when the England church broke away from the pope and the catholic church
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John Calvin
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pastor for the puritans was french and came up with protestant religion
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Puritan Sepratists
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they where people who separated them self's from puritan ideology
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Elizabeth the I
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was the fifth and last monarch of her dynasty and was queen of England and Ireland
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Coursers De Bois
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he did fur trade without being authorized by the french government
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New Amsterdam
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was apart of the new Netherlands territory was the first settlement on governor island
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West India Company
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was a charter company for the dutch during early colonizing years
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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was a poet writer and a solider he also made tobacco popular but was executed
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Roanoke
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was an Indian tribe in Carolina one of the few remaining since man had died
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James I
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during his rule the golden age for writing happened he was king of England as well as Ireland
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Jamestown
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was the first colony founded by the English
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john smith
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a man who was able to save Jamestown from becoming a failure because of his great leadership
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Lord De Lawar
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he conquered some of the local Indians that where by him and he called their territory Delaware after he concurred it
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Tobacco
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was a crop that was made by the framers and it soon became popular and became a cash crop
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Virginia Company
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a pair of English stock company's it was founded by king James the first but one never fulfilled its charter so it became new England's
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Headright System
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was used in James town to try and solve labor shortages
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Powhatan's
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was a Indian tribe when Jamestown became a colony there would be some tensions between the two
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Maryland and the Calverts
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was a territory that the Calvert came to as some what of a sanctuary for them
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Proprietary Rule
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was not popular in most of the colonies because it tried to monopolize the fundamentals of life and other things
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Toleration Act
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was an act passed in the colonies that made people deal with other religion and not to discriminate against them
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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after he was banished by one of the governors he came back with supporters and they rebelled against him
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Plymouth Plantation
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was a place where the pilgrims would do their farming and other things such as live men and young woman where thought many lessons here
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Mayflower Compact
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was the first official type of government that the colonies had it was some sort of democracy
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William Bradford
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he was the English leader of settlers and he also governed the town
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Colonial Currency
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it was early paper money in America currency but it back fired when people payed off there debts
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John Winthrop
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once john smith had left the colony of Jamestown started to slip so he came and layed down a strict rule
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Theocratic Society
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was a society that was based off of the thoughts of many people and how they interpreted it
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Roger Williams
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was one of the men that helped start the theocratic society with his theoretic ideas
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Anne Hutchinson
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lead many bible studies for woman then soon had a say in what the churches did
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Pequot War
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1636 -1637 puritan victory over the natives in new England colonies Connecticut sent men to attack small villages in the village their are natives Americans about 400 Indian men woman and children killed survivors sold for slaves sent to west Indies Caribbean used biblical passages to justify the extermination of the Pequot as a result new England confederation made
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King Philips War
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chief of Wampanoag tribe also know as meticom attacks 52 of the 90 puritan towns died and executed him and showed his head for 20 years
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The Narragansetts
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a small Indian tribe in the early years that was in rhode island they had little conflict with the colonist there territory was named after them
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English Civil War
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from 1642-1651 was a conflict between parliament and the royalist parliament was victorious
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Middle Colonies
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middle colonies where usually the colonies that would not be in a higher stander but that's not to say that the colonies where not important
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Quakers
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where people from England that wanted freedom since they where being oppressed in there country they where of protestant people
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William Penn
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was an English man who man who was in the real estate market but he also was the created of Pennsylvania
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Charter of Liberties
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what the charter of liberty's did was help the country and it would give them money to do what they wanted or the expense
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Black Codes
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where codes that the African American slaves would be put under to make sure that they didn't rebel or any other thing that the slave master didn't want them to do
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Holy Experiment
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it was the Quakers attempt to try and establish a colony for them self's in Pennsylvania thought it would show the world how good they function with out any oppression
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California 1760’s
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during that time period California was run by the Spanish and the Mexican people the people would try to Christianize the natives
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James Oglethorpe
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British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer in Britain, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prison, in the New World
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Mercantilism
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an economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism, that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital
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The Navigation Acts
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was a act that England passed only allowing it to trade within its self and no other colonies or places
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Sir Edmond Andros
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take charge of dominion of new England wanted to crush concretes of separating self with the king restricts on town meetings tax people with out consent suppress the black market as a result of the navigation acts
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The Glorious Revolution
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after a civil war the glorious revolution followed and it brought many great ideas and new ways of doing things in the colonies
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Willaim Bradford
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was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John Carver died. His journal 1620–1647, was published as Of Plymouth Plantation. Bradford is credited as the first to proclaim what popular American culture now views as the first Thanksgiving
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Cambridge Agreement
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The Cambridge Agreement was a deal over whether the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be under local control, in New England, or under the control of a corporate board in London. Not all the members of the Company were actually interested in emigrating, but even they were either sympathetic Puritans or investors.
In return for guaranteeing local control over the colony, the non-emigrating shareholders were bought out by the emigrating shareholders. John Winthrop became leader of the Puritan emigration as a result of the Cambridge Agreement negotiations, and it was understood that he would become governor upon arrival. |
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Church of England
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was church established that later separated from the catholic church and the pope
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Covenant Theology
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is a conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall flow of the Bible. It uses the theological concept of covenant as an organizing principle for Christian theology.
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Halfway Covenant
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partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose. First-generation settlers were beginning to die out, while their children and grandchildren often expressed less religious piety, and more desire for material wealth.
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Thomas Hooker
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Puritan religious and colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage. Hooker also had a role in creating the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut", one of the world's first written constitutions
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Saybrook Plattform
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conservative religious proposals adopted at Say brook, Connecticut in September 1708. The document attempted to stem the tide of disunity among the established Congregational churches and restore discipline among both the clergy and their congregations
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Joint Stock cOmpany
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s a type of business entity: it is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more legal persons. Certificates of ownership or stocks are issued by the company in return for each financial contribution, and the shareholders are free to transfer their ownership interest at any time by selling their stockholding to others.
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Cavaliers (1642-1647)
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Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War 1642–1651 Prince Rupert, commander of much of Charles I's cavalry, is often considered an archetypal Cavalier.
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John Locke
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a man who thought that human nature was naturally evil and that they needed laws to keep them from there bad ways
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