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John Smith
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John Smith was the first to establish Jamestown. He was a well known English explorer. He also led the Virginia colony in 1609.
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Jamestown
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Jamestown was established in 1609. It was founded was by the Virginia Company. It was the first colony established by the English.
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Joint Stock Company
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Joint Stock Company was created to establish settlements to the world. It first started in 1607
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Indentured Servant
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Indentured servants worked for a certain amount of time for clothing, food, housing etc. Most came from Britain and Germany aged around 21.
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Puritans
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Puritans were a select group of Protestants in the 16th-17th century. In the beginning they were an activist group against the church and the king.
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John Winthrop
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Winthrop, along with the Puritans, was able to obtain a charter from King Charles. He was elected governor of The Massachusetts Bay Company between 1639-1648
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King Philips War
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Sometimes called "metacoms war or metacoms rebellion this was an armed English and their Indian allies from 1675-1676
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The headright system
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Headright system were grants helped to spread the 13 colonies
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The calverts
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The family put in charge of the puritans colony who moved for religious freedom from england to the maryland colony because they became protestants
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Bacons rebellion
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Bacon led rebellions in 1676 in protest against Native American raids on the frontier
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William Penn
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Founder of the absolute probrietor of the province pennsylvania. The English North American colony. He owned and founded what would become of the state of pennsylvania
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Quakers
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Quakers were part of the Religious Society of Friends that became the dominate religion in England in the 1600s
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Mercantillism
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Mercanitllism became the country's main economic policy between the 16th-18th century. It consisted of trading and exporting goods.
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Navigation acts
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1651 laws that restricted foreign shipping for trade between 16th century . it consisted of trading and exporting goods.
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Roger William
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Roger established Rhode Island and Providence Plantation and the baptist church in america.
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Anne Hutchinson
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A pioneer settler who was an unauthorized minister of dissent church. she had her own congregations and people followed her eventually she was banished.
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John Coodes rebellion
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A rebellion that over threw Maryland's colonial government in 1689.
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Richard Hakluyt
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English writer that influenced the settlement NorthAmerica. He wrote "Diver's Voyages Touching the DIscoveries of America" and "The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation"
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Doctrine of Predestination
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Doctrine of Calvinism that dealt with the question of the control God exercises over the world.
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The English Reformation
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The start of people breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope.
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John Calvin
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Developed the Christian Theology and later Calvinism.
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Puritan Separatists
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Believed they were selected by God for salvation. Wanted to destroy or separate from the church of England.
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Elizabeth I
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Daughter f Henry VIII. Was sometimes called the Virgin Queen.
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Coureurs de Bois
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People that were involved in the fur trade without the French authority's permission.
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New Amsterdam
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A dutch colony that was the capital of the Netherlands but later became New York City. Was founded in 1625 by Willem Verhuls
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West India Company
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Chartered company run by Dutch merchants. It was successful and had many trade posts.
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Roanoke
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present-day North Carolina was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh.
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James Oglethorpe
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Founder of Georgia. Sailed for 88 days arriving in Charlestown in 1732.
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Mercantilism
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Economic theory.
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The Navigation Acts
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Laws that restricted the trade between England and its colonies.
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Sir Edmund Andros
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in charge of new england colonies. Head of New England dominion.
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The Glorious Revolution
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Used to overthrow King James II. Also referred to as the Bloodless Revolution.
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Cambridge Agreement
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An agreement made on August 29, 1629, between the shareholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company. The Agreement led directly to the foundation of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Covenant theology
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A way of understanding of the Bible.
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Halfway covenant
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Form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662.
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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.
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Saybrook Platform
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A religious proposal that attempted to stem the tide of distinuity between congregational churches.
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Joint Stock Company
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a type of partnership involving two or more legal persons.
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John Cocke
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An American politician who represented Tennessee as a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Incas
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The Inca tribe began in the Cuzco area in 1442 the Incas began a far reaching expansion under the control of Patchacuti, he was the founder of the Incan empire which became the largest empire in Pre-Columbian America
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Maya
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Meso-American civilization, they were the ones who originate the fully developed written language of the pre-columbian American, the mayas reached the highest point in the classic period (c.250 AD to 900 AD)
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Aztec
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Aztecs were a specific ethnic groups of Central-Mexico, mainly spoke the Nahulati language in the 14,15,16th centuries the late post classical period
"mexica people" |
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chaco canyon
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AD 900-1150 chaco canyon was home to the pueblo people. they made 15 of the largest structures in north america until the 19th century
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woodland indians
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before 1000BC until 1000AD Indians inhabited americs as techologicaly advanced tribes. they had cultivated crops in fertile valleys of North Georgia.
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agriculture
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they helped the colonist plant and farm and provide food. they gave them maize (corn) which was a stable crop fpr them, they also had a crop rotation system to preserve the soil nutrients they would plant crops in rows and in between them plant more crops
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Leif Erikson
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a Norse explorer who is regarded as the 1st to European to land in North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus accoding to Icelanders he established a Norse establishment on the tip of and Island in Canada
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Prince Henry and the Navigator
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prince Henry an important figure in the in the early days of the Portuguese empire he was responsible for the beginning of the European world wide exploration and maritime trade
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Christopher Columbus
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he was a navigator colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic made Europeans more aware of the american continents. he travled for Span and takes credit for entering America
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Lord de Loward
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he was head of the contingent men who landed in Jamestown June 10 1610 just in time to convince the people not to go back to England but to stay in the colony. He battled Indians and used "irish tactics" against them.
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Powhatan
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the powhatan was the name of a virginia tribe and the indian people they ruled over. after problems with he colony and the trib they were enslaved for some time.
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proprietory rule
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in South Carolina it was very unpoplular and not wanted with the amount of proprited immigrants who wanted home to monopolize one day.
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plymouth plantion
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1620 1691 this was the first settlement. found by a group of seperetist and anglicans plymouth was one of the most success full english colonies.
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ferdinand Magellin
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a Portuguese sea captain who led five Spanish ships and 251 men in the first around-the-world sailing expedition
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Conquistadors
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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
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Pizzaro
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founded what is now called panama
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ordinace of discovery
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team of Mexican archaeologists uncovered in the center of Mexico City an altar and a 11 foot monolith founded over 500 years ago.
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st augustine
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Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and port in the United States.
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Ecomiendas
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The encomienda was a Spanish institution of Roman origin, and in the New World, the Spanish government established a series of rights and obligations between the encomendero (grantee) and the people under his care.
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Pueblo revolt
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was brought about by years of Spanish cruelty and barbarism practiced on the indigenous inhabitants.
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Mestizo
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a person who has american and spanish blood
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Bradford
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was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts,
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colonial currency
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The Continental Congress also issued paper money during the Revolution, known as Continental currency, to fund the war effort
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winthrop
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served as govenor of Massachusetts for 12 terms
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Pequot War
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The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1634-1638 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies with Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) against the Pequot tribe
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theocratic society
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Theocracy is a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler,[1] or in a higher sense, a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
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Philips WAR
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Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–1676.
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Roger Williams
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first American proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
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