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37 Cards in this Set
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Glorious Revolution
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The beginning of constitutional monarchy in britain
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Colonial regions
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New England, Middle, Southern, Chesapeake
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New England colonies
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Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay
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Middle
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New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
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Southern
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The Carolinas, Georgia
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Oliver Cromwell
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skilled general and puritan, governed england after the execution of Charles
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Joint stock company
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business organization in which scores of people could invest without fear of bankruptcy
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Richard Hakaluyt
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Promoted the settlement of North America through his novels and stories of expeditions
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Avarice
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extreme greed for material
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John Smith
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traveled throughout Europe and fought with hungary
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Sir John Rolfe
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A Virginian tobacco farmer that had married Pocahontas.
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Sir Edwin Sandys
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Led a faction of stockholders that began to pump life into the Virginia by instituting a series of sweeping reforms.
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Virginia Company
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A joint-stock corporation given a charter by King James I in 1606.
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Headright
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A 50-acre lot given to colonists who covered their own transportation cost to America.
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House of Burgesses
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An elective representative assembly in Virginia.
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Sir George Calvert
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Wanted a settlement for persecuted Catholics in England.
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Lord Baltimore
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Given a charter by Charles I for a settlement north of Virginia.
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Separatists
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the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group.
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William Bradford
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(Plymouth governor) (1590–1657) ; military commander of Plymouth during King Philip's War
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Mayflower Compact
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the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims
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Squanto
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Real name, Tisquantum. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival
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Puritan
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a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
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John Winthrop
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obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles for the Massachusetts Bay Company and led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630
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Congregationalism
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system of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing
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Antinomianism
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The belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace.
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Governor Nicolls
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commander of the british forces that took control of New York after the Dutch.
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Duke's Law
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The Duke's Laws covered nearly every aspect of life on Long Island and were published in alphabetical order. they were the laws of the land.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was taken by treaty to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.
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George Fox
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was an English dissenter and a founder of the religious society commonly known as the Quakers.
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"Freemen"
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is a term used generally as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritain times, which referred to men who were not under legal restraint.
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Roger Williams
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was an American Protestant who studies religion, and the first American advocate of religious freedom and the seperation of church and state.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Spoke outrageous, yet intelligent religious views that had been seen as a threat to the colony. Supposively had experienced divine inspiration.
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William Penn
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A Quaker of whom founded Pennsylvania.
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Charter of Liberties
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Established a unicameral legislation within Pennsylvania.
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True and Absolute Lord Proprietors of Carolina
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Eight powerful courtiers given a charter for land inbetween Virginia and Florida.
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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Created a local aristocracy consisting of proprietors and lesser nobles called "langraves" and "cassiques".
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James Oglethorpe
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A British general and member of Parliament involved in the founding of Georgia.
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