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34 Cards in this Set
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glorious revolution
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when king james lifted the restrictions that governed catholics and a protestant nation rose up
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colonial regions
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blah blah blah
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oliver cromwell
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a skilled general and a committed puritan that governed england as lord protector
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joint-stock company
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a buisness organization in which scores of people could invest without fear of bankruptcy
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richard hakluyt
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promoted and supported english settlement in the new world
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avarice
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extreme greed for riches
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captin john smith
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in virginia he brought order to the anarchy and saved the colony
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sir john rolfe
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an early settler in north america and is credited for the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export in virginia
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sir edwin sandys
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one of the founders of the virginia company
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virginia company
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a joint stock corporation charged with the settlement of virginia. It had the power to appoint the council of virginia, the governor and other officials, and the responsibility to provide settlers, supplies, and ships
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headright
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a 50 acre lot for which colonists only paid a small annual rent
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house of burgesses
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a representative assembly that was established in hopes to make virginia a more attractive colony to weathly speculators
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sir geroge calvert
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a talented and well-educated man that declared his catholicism and was stripped of his civil office and sponsered te settlement that would eventually be maryland
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lord baltimore
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the common name for cecilius calvert, geroge calverts son
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speratists
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the Ssparatist were English protestants who occupied the extreme wing of puritanism
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william bradford
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was an english leader of the settlers of the plymouth colony in massachusetts, and was elected to be the governor
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mayflower compact
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an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the pilgrims
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squanto
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an indian that communicated with the pilgrims
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puritans
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idividuals that were very outspoken and condemmed all those whom sinned
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john winthrop
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english colonist in america, 1st governor of the massachusetts bay colony
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congregationalism
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a form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent and self-governing
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antinomianism
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the term that anne hutchinson used to describe her religious beliefs
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governor nicolls
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one of the few competent administrators to serve in the middle colonies that established duke's law
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duke's laws
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a legal code that garunteed religious toleration and created local governments
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peter stuyvesant
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a director-general
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george fox
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a poor shoemaker whose spiritual ideas sparked a powerful new religious message that pushed the reformed portestntism
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"freemen"
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stockholders
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roger williams
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preahced separatism and questioned the foundation of the massachusetts bay colony
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anne hutchinson
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an outspoken young lady that started controvery in maryland with her belief that the ministers of the of maryland were not in touch with the holy spirit
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william penn
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a powerful man that founded pennsylvania as a refuge for quakers
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charter of liberties
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a doument written in order to bind the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles
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true and absolute lord of proprietros of carolina
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a group of eight powerful courtiers
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fundamental constitutions of carolina
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created a local aristocracy consisting of proprietors and lesser nobles
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james oglethrope
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a british general amd member of parliment who believed that he could thwart spanish designs on the area south of charles town
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