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31 Cards in this Set
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glorious revolution
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altered the course of English political history, and therefore, that of the American colonies as well
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joint stock company
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buissness organization in which people could invest in without bankruptcy.
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house of burgesses
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elective representative assembly
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headright
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50 acre lot for which they only paid a small anual rent
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puritans
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neurotic individuals who condemned liquor and sex, dressed in drab clothes, and minded their neighbor's buissness
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colonial regions
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new england, middle, chesapeake, and southern
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oliver cromwell
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puritan factions in england executed king charles the first
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richard hakluyt
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kipt the dream of colonies in the new world alive.
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avarice
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exacerbated the problems in virginia
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captain john smith
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resourceful man, traveled throughout europe and fought with the hungarian army against the turks
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sir john rolfe
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settler who chieved notoriety by marrying pocahantas and thought the local weed might be a valuable export
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sir edwin sandys
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led a faction of stock holders that began to pump life into the dying organization by instiuting a series of sweeping
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virginia comany
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gave charters of land to people in the new wold
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sir george calvert
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king charles's secratary of state and cloe freind, but he had publicly anounced that he was catholic so all catholics had been removed from the civil office
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lord baltimore the second
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was given a charter of land by king charles. he wanted it to be a sanctuary for catholics, but he also wanted money, so he also allowed protestants to settle there
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seperatists
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people who wanted to believe what they wanted, and not just a certain religion
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william bradford
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wrote plymouth plantations and was one of the first and certainly most poigant accounts of an early american settlement
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mayflower compact
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an agreement to covenant and combine men together into a civil body politic
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squanto
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kidnapped and sold as a slave in Spain. he managed to escape to London where he was taught englis. he got to plymouth rock before the pilgrims, joined the massasoits, helped the pilgrims survive, and they had the First Thanksgiving
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congregationalism
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highly innovative form of church government
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john winthrop
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antinomianism
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Governor Nicolls
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George Fox
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Roger Williams
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“Freemen”
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William Penn
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Anne Hutchinson
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charter of liberties
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James Oglethorpe
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