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John Smith
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Admiral of England in late 16th early 17th century.Established first North American settlement Jamestown.
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Jamestown
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Virginia colony founded in 1607and the first permanent colony.
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Joint stock company
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A type of business entity.Offers the protection of limit liability.
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Indentured servant
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A worker typically a laborer or tradesmen under contract for a period of time.
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Puritans
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Significant English speaking Protestants in the 16th and 17th century.
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John Withrop
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He was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Led a group of English Puritans to the new world in 1630.
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King Philips War
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an armed conflict between native Americans and English colonists in 1675-1676
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Headright system
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a legal grant of land to settlers
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Bacon's rebellion
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an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1776 in the Virginia Colony , which was the first A merican rebellion
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William Penn
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an English real estate entreprenuer and founder of the Province of Pennsilvania
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Mercantilism
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an economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism
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Navigation acts
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a series of laws that restrict the use of foreign shipping
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Roger William
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an American Protestant Theologian and first American proponent of religious freedom
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Anne Hutchinson
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was a pioneer settler and key figure of religious freedom
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John Coodes Rebellion
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best knowned as leading a rebellion that overthrew Marylands colonial goverment in 1689
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