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33 Cards in this Set
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Glorious Revolution
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The overthrow of King James II in England by a union of Parliamentarians (1688).
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Colionial Regions- New England, Middle, Chesapeake, Southern
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The primary locations in which Europeans settled in North America.
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Oliver Cromwell
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English political leader who is known best for his overthrow of the monarchy, while temporarily tuning England into a Commonwealth.
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Joint-Stock Company
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A type of business involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company.
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Richard Hakluyt
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An English writer who promoted the settlement of the New World.
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Avarice
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An insatiable greed for riches and wealth.
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Captain John Smith
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Remembered for his role in establishing the settlement Jamestown.
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Sir John Rolfe
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Credited with the first cultivation of tobacco in the New World- husband of Pocahantes.
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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 pair of joint-stock companies that served the purpose of settling the East Coast of North America.
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Headright
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A legal grant of land to settlers.
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House of Burgesses
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A legislative body that ewas created by colonists in Jamestown.
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Sir George Calvert/ Lord Baltimore
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Secretary of State under King James I- publicly declared his faithfulness to Catholicism.
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Separatists
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Those who believe in concepts other than the accepted ideas in a specific culture.
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William Bradford
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The leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
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Mayflower Compact
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The first governing document of the Plymouth colony, written by the Pilgrims.
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Squanto
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A Native American who assisted the Pilgrims and helped them survive at Plymouth.
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Puritans
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A group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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John Winthrop
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A Puritan merchant who obtained a charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony from King Charles I.
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Congregationalism
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A system in which every church is independent in a local setting.
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Antinomianism
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A religion in which individuals consider existing laws as no longer applicable to themselves.
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Governor Nicolls
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The first British governor of the province of New York.
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Duke's Laws
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A set of guidelines that were laid out in colonial Long Island.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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The last general of New Netherland.
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George Fox
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The founder of the religious group, Quakers.
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"Freemen"
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Those persons in colonial times who were not under restraint, hence the name "Freemen."
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Roger Williams
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An English theologian who believed in separatism- founded Rhode Island.
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Anne Hutchinson
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A Puritan in colonial Massachusetts who led a dissident church reform group- was exiled for her beliefs.
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William Penn
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Founder and proprietor of Pennsylvania.
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Charter of Liberties
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Document signed by William Penn in 1701 that established a unicameral legislature in Pennsylvania- used until American Revolution.
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True/ Absolute Lord Proprietors of Carolina
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A group of men in the Carolinas who divided the land into three regions, each a different jurisdiction.
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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Adopted in 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietors of Carolina.
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James Oglethorpe
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British general who founded Georgia.
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