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10 Cards in this Set
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How many men signed the Mayflower Compact?
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41
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Who had hired Captain John Smith to explore the region near which the Pilgrims eventually landed?
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Virginia Company
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Opposition to the Puritans increased after which king took the throne?
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King Charles
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John Winthrop watched his fellow Puritans suffer religious and economic hardships after a depression struck which aspect of England's economy?
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wool industry
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Nine hundred settlers sailed for America in March of 1630 with John Winthrop on how many ships?
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eleven
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How did John Winthrop ensure that Massachusetts became his kind of society?
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He led the settlers to believe that only the governor and his assistants could make laws for the colony by keeping the charter locked in a chest.
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How many deputies could the freemen of each Massachusetts town elect each year to send to the General Court?
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3
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From whom did Roger Williams purchase land to found the town of Providence?
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the Narragansett people
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What people lived east of the Connecticut River and considered the valley part of their territory?
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Pequot
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To whom had much of the territory north of Massachusetts been granted?
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Sir Fernando Gorges and Captain John Mason
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