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Virginia Company |
focused more on a search for gold or exploiting resources, in the 17th century, the 104 settlers established Jamestown-the first english settlement in the U.S. the charter of granted that colonists would recieve liberties of that of englishmen |
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Roanoke colony |
Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched 5 ships of 100 colonists for Roanoke island to facilitate raids on spanish ships. They abandoned the venture. The second group was gone when supplies came back |
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A discourse concerning Western Planting |
at the request of sir walter raleigh, Richard Hakluyt listed 23 reasons why queen elizabeth should support the establishment of colonies |
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enclosure movement |
landlords evicted small farmers and fenced in commons in england |
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indentured servant |
people who voluntarily surrendured their freedom for 5-7 yrs for passage to America |
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John Smith |
one of Jamestowns first leaders, declared that settlers would rather starve looking for gold than work as a laborer |
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headright system |
The virginia company first introduced a system in which colonists who paid for their own or anothers passage would receive 50 acres of land |
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house of burgesses |
in 1619, became the first elected assembly in colonial america |
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uprising of 1622 |
when the local indians led by opechancanough became aware that the english wished to expand colonies, he led a surprise attack that wiped out a quarter of virginias settler population of 1200 |
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tobacco colony |
tobacco became virginias substitute for gold when increasing europeans began to use it. It led to increased need for field labor |
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dower rights |
wife could claim 1/3 of husbands property in death |
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puritans |
a set of religious principles and guideline for how society should be organized, they saw that the church of england retained too many elements of capitalism, "true protestants," followed John Calvin, were present in new england |
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moral liberty |
liberty to that which is only good |
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John Winthrop |
governor of massachussetts distinguished between natural and moral liberties |
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pilgrims |
first group of puritans to emigrate to America were seperatists, established plymouth and the mayflower compact |
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mayflower compact |
adult men agreed to obey just and equal laws enacted by representatives of their choosing first written frame of government in the U.S. |
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great migration |
a flow of puritans to massachussets, ireland, the chesapeake, and the carribean |
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dissenters |
failure to subjugate to the religious truth of the puritans, practiced soul liberty, Roger Williams |
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captivity narratives |
publications detailing events carried out by indians on their new englander captives |
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the sovereignty and goodness of god |
a captivity narrative by Mary Rowlandson that said she was well treated |
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pequot war |
a fur trader was killed by pequots led to the killing of 500 indians called the massacre at mystic |
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half-way covenant |
addressed the problem of less inclusion in the puritan church allowed the baptism of grand-children who emigrated during the Great Migration |
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english liberty |
liberties as a set of priveleges based on class and rights of all englishmen-rested on the magna carta |
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Act Concerning Religion (Maryland Toleration Act) |
institutionalized the principle of toleration and free exercise of religion in Maryland |
