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27 Cards in this Set
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Separatists
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Pilgrims that had broken with the Anglican Church.
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Pilgrims
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Left England so they could worship freely.
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Puritans
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Protestants who wished to"purify" the Anglican Church of all Catholic rituals and traditions.
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William Bradford
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Obtained permission from the Virginia Company to settle on lands it owned near the mouth of the Hudson River.
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Mayflower Compact
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Established a self-governing colony based on the majority rule of male-based church members.
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Squanto
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A Patuxet Indian who spoke English.
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Great Migration
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More than 40,000 people left England for the Americas.
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John Winthrop
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Leader of a group of English Puritans.
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New England Way
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A cooperation between church and state.
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Minister Thomas Hooker
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He and his congregation left Massachusetts partly because of religious differences with Puritan leaders and party because the commonwealth;s "towns were set son near to each other."
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Considered to be the first written constitution of the colonies.
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Roger Williams
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A minister who believed in strict separation of church and state.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Another Puritan that found refuge in Rhode Island at refusing to follow the New England Way.
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Cecilius Calvert
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Son of King Charles I; Was made the proprietor of the upper Chesapeake Bay.
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Toleration Act of 1649
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Granted a degree of religious freedom.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Pushed for war against the Indian tribe of Susquehannock.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Ended with sudden death of its leader.
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The House of Burgesses
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Virginia's representative assembly of large planters.
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Middle Passage
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The voyage across the Atlantic for slaves.
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Olaudah Equiano
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A member of the Ibo people who lived in what is now Nigeria; was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the mid-1700's.
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Quakers
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Members of a Protestant sect that rejected wealth and even clergy.
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Abolitionists
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Those who wished slavery to be abolished.
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Charles II
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The king of England
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The Restoration
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Another wave of colonization began when the king rewarded his supporters with grants of land.
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Task System
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Slaves of rice plantations worked under this system.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Dutch commander of a New Amsterdam colony; surrendered to the English without a shot being fired.
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William Penn
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Proprietor of a large tract of land near New York.
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