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Who was John Smith?
When did he live? What was his significance? |
John Smith came to Jamestown after their numbers were very tiny and dwindled. He was a natural leader and helped establish a strong population in Jamestown.
He was in Jamestown from 1607-1609 when he was injured. He led Virginia to prosperity and ensured its survival. |
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What was Jamestown?
When was Jamestown? What was Jamestown's significance? |
Jamestown was the first established colony in America.
Jamestown was founded in 1607. First established colony of America. Was in Virginia. |
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What is an indentured servant?
When were they used? What were indentured servants? |
An indentured servant is a person who has agreed to a term of service. They are semi-free, but when theyre done with their contract they can go.
They were used in the colonies for a long time. |
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Who were the Puritans?
When were the Puritans? What was the significance of the Puritans? |
The Puritans were a religious people who started emigrating to Holland illegally in 1608. They then moved to America when Holland was a restrictive as England. They landed in Plymouth and everyone knows their significance.
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Who was John WInthrop?
When did John Winthtop live? Why was he important? |
John Winthrop was elected governor to lead the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He lived during the 1630s and was re-elceted many times.
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What was King Philip's war?
When was King Philip's war? What was the importance of his war? |
an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–1676.
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What was the "Headrigth system?"
When was this system in effect? What was the importance of the headright system? |
The headright system was used in Jamestown, Virginia, starting in 1618 as an attempt to solve labor shortages due to the advent of the tobacco economy, which required large plots of land with many workers. It was also a way to attract immigrants.
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Who were the Calvers?
When were the Calvers alive? What was the importance of the Calvers? |
The Calvers were
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What was Bacon's Rebellion?
When was Bacon's Rebellon? What was the importance of Bacon's Rebellion? |
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what are navigation acts?
when did start? why is it important? |
The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651. They contributed to the American Revolution as England controlled all trade.
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who is roger williams?
when was he alive? why is he important? |
Roger Williams (circa 1603 – between January and March 1683) was an American Protestant theologian, and the first American proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the First Baptist Church in America Providence before leaving to become a Seeker. He was a student of Indian languages and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans. He left many writings.
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Who were the Inca?
when did the Inca exist? Why are they important. |
The Inca civilization began as a tribe in the Cuzco area Cuzco around 1200. In 1533 Pizarro broke the Inca empire. They were a very advanced people with roads and a rich culture.
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Who were the Maya?
When did the Maya exist? Why were they important? |
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. The maya civilization began in 2000 BC and established its classic period from 250 to 900 AD. ended when the Spaniards came.
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What was the Chaco Canyon?
When was it relevant? Why was it important? |
Chaco Canyon was a home to Natives from 850 to about 1130.
They were almost like apartment comlexes and proves how advanced southern natives were. |
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WHo were the woodland Indians?
When did thy exist? Why were they important? |
They lived from the Atlantic to roughly the Mississippi all the way to the Great Lakes. They were constantly battling with settlers because they infringed on their land.
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Who were the native Americans?
When did they exist? Why are they important? |
The native Americans were the native inhabitants of America. They were in America for a very long time, and are still there today. Throughtout the history of the United States, the Natives always clashed with settlers.
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What was Native agriculture?
Why was it important? |
Native agriculture was better suited to the American climate than the methods of agriculture that the settlers brought with them. It helped the settlers survive once they learned them.
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Who was Leif Erikson?
When did he live? Why was he important? |
eif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson)[1] (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse[2] explorer who is regarded as the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
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Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
When did he live? Why was he important? |
Henry the Navigator,(March 1394 – 13 November 1460) was an infante (prince) of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations and maritime trade.
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Who was Christopher Columbus?
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Christopher Columbus ( 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from Genoa, Italy, whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile. He thought he had reached Asia, but had reached the Americas.
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Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
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1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He was born at Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, but later obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands. Circumnavigated the world.
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Who were the Conquistadors?
When did they exist? Why were they important? |
eaning "Conqueror" in the Spanish and Portuguese languages) is the term widely used to refer to the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain in the 15th through the 19th centuries following Europe's discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
The leaders of the conquest of the Aztec Empire were Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado. Francisco Pizarro led the conquest of the Inca Empire. |
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Who was Cortes?
When did he live? Why was he important? |
was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
he brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the king of castile in he early 16th century. He lived from 1485-1547. |
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Who was Francisco Pizarro?
When did he live? Why was he important? |
Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru. He lived from 1471 to
1541. |
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What was the ordinance of Discovery?
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What were Catholic Missions for the natives?
When were these missions prevalent? Why were they significant? |
During the Age of Discovery, the Roman Catholic Church established a number of Missions in the Americas and other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans and Dominicans in order to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the Native Americans and other indigenous people.
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What was St.Augustine?
What was significant about 1565? |
A Spanish fort established in 1565 at St.Augustine Florida. Became first permanet European settlement. Served as a military outpost and administrative center for Franciscan Missionaries.
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What were the Encomiendas? When were they important and why?
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Licenses to exact labor and tribute from the local Indians. DEistributed by Onate fin 1598.
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What was the Pueblo Revolt? When was it? Why was it important?
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In 1680, the Pueblos around the Spanish settlements revolted. It was important because they nearly overthrew the colonies as the natives outnumbered the settlers.
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What is a mestizo?
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Mestizos are people of mixed European and American native heritage.
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Who was John Cabot? When did he live?
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was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of North America is commonly held to be the first European voyage to the continent since Norse exploration of the Americas in the early eleventh century. Lived from 1450 to 1499
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Who was Richard Hayklut?
When did he live? Why was he important? |
A clergyman argued how colonies would create new markets. He argued for colonies.
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What was the Doctrine of Predestination?
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John Calvin taught that God determined a person's slavation or damnation beofre birth and that could not be changed.It was in the 1520's. Calvinism became a belief system.
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What was the English Reformation? When was it? Why was it important?
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The English reformation began more because of a political dispute between the King and the Pope rather than doctrinal revolts in the country. In 1529 Henry VIII became an gry at the pope because he would not grant him a divorce and so he declared hyimself head of the Christian faith in England.
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Who was John Calvin? When did he live? Why was he important?
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John Calvin(10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.
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Who were the Purtian Separatists? WHne were they important?
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Some Puritans wanted to worship as they pleased in their own private congregations. They were called separatists. They existed in the mid-1500's
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Who was Elizabeth the First? When did she reign? Why was she important?
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Elizabeth severed the connection with Rome and Spain that her sister had established after King Henry VIII had broken it. She ruled in 1558.
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Who were the "coureurs de bois?" What did they do?
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Adventurous fur traders who penetrated far into the wilderness and laid the foundations for the rench Colonial Economy. They were often middle men.
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What was New Amsterdam? Why was it important?
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it was started by the Dutch West India company on Manhattasn Island. Was a permanent trading post.
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What was the West India Company? When was it relevant and why?
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It established permasnent trading posts In the 1620s. Trading company.
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Who was Sir Walter Raleigh? Why was he important and when did he live?
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Sir Walter Raleigh[ (1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer who is also largely known for popularising tobacco in England. began Roanoke.
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What was Roanoke? When did it exist? WHy was it important?
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In 1585, Roanoke was started. Everyone left, but in 1587 came back and then in 1590, the Island was found deserted. Maybe natives killed all settlers in retaliatiion.
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Who was James I? WHen did he live? Why was he important?
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He was king of England and in 1606 granted charters which divided America into the southern London Group and the Northern Plymouth merchants.
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What was Jamestown? WHen was it founded? Why was it important?
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Jamestown was the first succesful marican colony founded in 1607. It worked and survived although it had difficulties.
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John Smith
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Who was Lord de Lawar? When did he live? WHy was he important?
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First governor of Jamestown.. Imposed a harsh and rigid discipline. Made Virginia survive.
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Why was tobacco so important in jamestown?
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It was the first cash crop and there was a ready market in England.
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Virginia company
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Headright system
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Who were the Powhatans? WHy were they important?
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in 1644 they finally were not a threat anymore, but they had always been defending their borders since Jamestown. Pocahontas was a Powhatan.
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Maryland and the Calverts
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What was Propietary rule?
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Lord Baltimore was given land that he called it his property. This land was his to keep and it was granted to him by the king. With this land he created the colony of Maryland. They were absolute lords and proprietaries of the land.
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What was the toleration Act and why was it important?
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A law issued in the colony of Maryland that allowed religious freedom. It created the firs legal limitations on hate speech in the world.It allowed freedom to the trinitarian Christians.
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Bacon's rebellion.
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What was the Plymouth plantation? when did it start? why was it important?
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An English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. It was founded by a group of separatists and Anglicans and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was settled by the Pilgrim Fathers and it is known because the colony was created for religious freedom rater than being entrepreneur
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What was the Mayflower Compact?
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The Puritans established the first democracy in America. They were self-ruling
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Who was William Bradford? Why was he important?
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Governor of the Plymouth colony that was chosen again and again. He persuaded the king to give them legal permission to live there.
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What was colonial currency? When was it used and why was it important?
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Colonial currency was ,money used in the colonies. very weak and not many trusted it
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John Wintroph
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What was a theocratic society? why was it important in the colonies?
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This happened in Massachusetts in which the minister had a great influence on the church people towards politics. In return the government would protect the Minister and taxed the people to support the church.
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Roger Williams
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Who was Anne Hutchinson? When did she live and why was she important?
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A ver proggressive woman in the colonies she left right before the witch trials. Pioneer settler and an unauthorized minister of a dissident church
Arrived in the Massachusetts in 1634 Did sermons for women that later appealed to man and developed her own interpretations of the sermons. |
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What was Pequot War? When was it and why was it important?
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The Pequot war was an armed conflict in 1634 between the alliance of Massachusetts bay and Plymouth colonies against with American allies ( against the Pequot tribe)
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King Phillips War
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Who were the Narragansetts? When did they exist and why were they important?
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They were a leading tribe from Rhode island. Helped in the Pequot war
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What was the English Civil War? When was it and why it important?
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Between 1642-1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political conflicts between the parliamentarians and the royalists
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What were the middle colonies? Why were they relevant?
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Powerful. also known as the bread basket for the regions grain and oats which were new jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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Who were the Quakers? Why were they relevant?
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Pacifists. Had no clergy. religious group that thought themselves as part of the restoration of the true Christian church.
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Who was William Penn? When did he live and why was he important?
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Started Pennsylvania. An English absolute proprietor of Pennsylvania which James II of England gave to him
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What was the Charter of Liberties? When was it and when was it important?
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also known as the coronation charter, was a proclamation by Henry I of England issued upon his succession on the throne in 1100 which sought to bind the king of certain laws regarding the treating of people.
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What were the Black codes?
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laws passed on the state and local level to limit the rights and liberties of African American
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What was the holy experiment? When was it and why was it important?
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an attempt by the Quakers to established a community for themselves in Pennsylvania, William Penn was the founder of this colony
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What was California like in the 1760's? When was it and why was it important?
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colonized by the Spanish. It was colonized and ranchos were set up.
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Who was James Oglethorpe?
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a British general and was the founder of Georgia
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What was mercantilism and why was it important?
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economic theory , thought to be a economic nationalism that holds its supply on capital and in international trade, assumes wealth and monetary assets are identical
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What were the navigation acts?
Why were they important? |
series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies and started on 1651 which were made after the eighty years war.
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Who as Sir Edmond Andros and why was he important?
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An early English governor and represantative of England
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What was the Glorious Revolution? Why was it important?
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revolution of 1688 was the overthrow of king James II of England in 1688 by the union of parliamentarians which gave the throne to William II of England and Mary II of England
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What was Cambridge agreement ? WHy was it important?
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march 19 1590- may 9 1657 was a English leader of the settlers on the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts and was elected thirty times governor and its proclaim the on the first thanksgiving
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What was the Church of England? Why was it relevant?
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an agreement on august 29 1629 between the shareholders of the Massachusetts bay company, which led directly to the foundation of Boston Massachusetts in which guaranteed that Massachusetts would be a self governing colony which establish john Winthrop as governor
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What was the covenant theology? Why was it important?
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the official Christian church of the Anglican communion and the oldest of the churches.
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What was the half-way covenant? Why was it relevant?
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was a form of partial church membership created in New England in 1662. promoted particularly by reverend Solomon Stoddard that felt the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose
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Who was Thomas Hooker? Why was he important?
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- prominent puritan religious and colonial leader who founded the colony of Connecticut, and also had a role on the fundamental orders of Connecticut one of the first world’s written constitution
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What was the Syasbrook Platform? Why was it important?
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refers to the conservatives’ religious proposals adopted by the saybrook, Connecticut in September 1708. attempted to improve the disunity among the establishment of congregational churches, done after the halfway covenant and would end with the great awakening
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Joint Stock company
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WHo was John Locke?When was he born? Why was he important?
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29 august 1632 - 28 October 1704 widely known as father of liberalism was a English philosopher influential to enlightenment thinkers, and his ideas were reflected on the American declaration of independence
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