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15 Cards in this Set
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Glorious Revolution
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the overthrow of King James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch William of Orange who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England
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Colonial regions – New England
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The New England Colonies of British America included colonies of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and Province of New Hampshire
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Colonial regions – Middle
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the Middle Colonies became the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Deleware
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Colonial regions- Chesapeake
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the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered around the Chesapeake Bay.
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Colonial regions- Southern
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the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Carolina, and the Province of Georgia.
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Oliver Cromwell
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was an English military and political leader best known in England for his overthrow of the monarchy and temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth
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Joint-Stock Company
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a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company
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Richard Hakluyt
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is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works
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Avarice
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insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
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Captain John Smith
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is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway.
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George Fox
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founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
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"Freemen"
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a term used generally as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons (males) who were not under legal restraint
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Roger Williams
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English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence, before leaving to become a Seeker.
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Anne Hutchinson
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an early-17th Puritan living in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands who became the leader of a dissident church discussion group. Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women that soon appealed to men as well. Eventually, she went beyond Bible study to proclaim her own theological interpretations of sermons.
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