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38 Cards in this Set
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What is the mystery of Roanoke Island?
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Raleigh sent settlers to Roanoke Island twice. John White explored the land. The colony did not survive through the winter and returned to England. They later returned this time with men, women, and children. White returned for supplies but, had to stay in England since there was war between the England and Spain. When White returned he found the colony desert and the word Croatoan carved on a tree.
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What is the Virginia Company?
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a joint-stock company where investors bought shares hoping that the company would make money and share the profits. The plan was for the company's settlers to find gold and to trade fish and fur
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What were the successes of Jamestown?
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growing tobacco using seeds from the West Indies and women
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What were the challenges of Jamestown?
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disease, hunger, not being able to find gold or riches, and no work
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What was the House of Burgesses?
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1st legislative body in North America elected by the people
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Who were the Pilgrims?
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a group of separatists who moved to North America. pilgrims are people who are undertaking a religious journey. they got grants of land from the Virginia Company to settle in Virginia to practice their religion freely. they had trouble surviving the winter so two Native Americans Squanto and Samoset showed them how to grow corn, beans, pumpkins, and where to fish. they also befriended them with the Wampanoags and they celebrated in a feast of Thanksgiving
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Who were the Puritans?
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Protestants who wished to reform the Anglican church
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What was King Phillips War?
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colonists started to come on the Native American land so the head of the Wampanoag tribe Metacomet gathered other Native American tribes. The war lasted for 14 months and the colonists won
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What was the Triangle Trade?
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ships who were trading went to trade to certain destinations their paths left the sides of a triangle
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What was the Middle Passage?
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second or middle part of route of a triangular trade. This was a terrible ordeal because slaves received very little food or water and if they did not eat they were whipped. they were chained together with other slave and were thrown overboard if they died. If they survived they were to be sold on the slave market where families would be forever broken apart
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What was the life of a slave like?
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women did housework while the men did the hard labor on the plantation. they had slave codes that they had to live by which were unfair. there families were torn apart during the selling of slaves at the slave market but, somehow found a way to stay tied to their African roots
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Who were the critics of slavery?
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The Puritans, Quakers, and the Mennonites condemned slavery which would start a huge war
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What were protected rights?
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the rights that people felt should be protected by the government. they first were shown in the Magna Carta that even set bounds on the kings and queens
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What was representative government?
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people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government. The English Parliament was a representative assembly. It had the power to legislate, or make laws.Parliament had two chambers, or houses: the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
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What was the government in America like?
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The thirteen colonies began as either charter or proprietary colonies. Charter colonies were based on a charter and proprietary colonies were the property of an owner or group of owners.Some colonies later became royal colonies, under direct English control. In general, only white men who owned property could vote. Most women, indentured servants, landless poor, and African Americans could not vote.
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What was mercantilism?
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the belief that a country has colonies to make them money
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What were the Navigation Acts?
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The laws forced colonists to sell their raw materials to England even if they could get a better price elsewhere. Goods bought by the colonies from other countries in Europe had to go to England first and be taxed. All trade goods had to be carried on ships built in England or the colonies.
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What was the Great Awakening?
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inspired greater religious freedom and it led to the formation of many new types of churches. The new churches placed an emphasis on having personal faith rather than on church rituals. More colonists began choosing their own faiths, and the strength of established official churches declined.
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What was the Enlightenment?
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This movement, which began in Europe, spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society. In the colonies, the Enlightenment increased interest in science. People observed nature, staged experiments, and published their findings, much as Benjamin Franklin did. promoted freedom of thought and expression, a belief in equality, and the idea of popular government.
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What were the ideas of freedom?
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Newspapers in colonial cities, such as Boston and Philadelphia, carried political news and often faced government censorship. People believed that if what the newspaper says is true there is no reason for it to be censored
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What is civic virtue?
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democratic ideas, practices, and values that form a truly free society. some examples of civic virtue are voting, being informed, helping a neighbor
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What were the colonies in the New England Colonies? the Middle Colonies? the Southern Colonies?
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Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.; New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware.; Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
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charter
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a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony
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joint-stock company
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a business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits
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burgess
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elected representative to an assembly
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headright
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a 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way
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dissent
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to disagree with or oppose
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persecute
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to mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs
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tolerance
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the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors
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indentured servant
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laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
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constitution
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detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government
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subsistence farming
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producing just enough to meet immediate needs
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export
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to sell abroad
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immigration
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the permanent movement of people into one country from other nation
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epidemic
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an illness that affects large numbers of people
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apprentice
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a person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsperson
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civic virtue
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the democratic ideas, practices, and values that are at the heart of citizenship in a free society
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militia
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a military force made of ordinary citizens
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