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39 Cards in this Set
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first written agreement of self-government in America
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Mayflower Compact
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first permanent European settlement in New World
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St. Augustine
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When did the Pilgrims establish their colony at Plymouth?
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1620
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Who claimed part of North America for England?
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John Cabot
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first place separatists moved to for religious freedom
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Holland
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colony founded by Sir Walter Raliegh
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Roanoke
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When was Jamestown founded?
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1607
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In 1588 England defeated the ________.
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Spanish Armada
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the first governor of Jamestown
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Lord De La Warr
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minister of the colony at Plymouth
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Elder Brewster
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first written constitution in America
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Fundamental orders of Connecticut
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second governor of Plymouth and author of "Of Plymouth Plantation"
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William Bradford
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Who founded the first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America?
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Roger Williams
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Name the unusal difference of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter.
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Puritans were allowed to take charter with them and establish own government
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Ole' Deluder Satan Act passed in 1647 in Massachusetts established what?
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first public schools in America
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the state of New York was first called
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New Netherland
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the proper name for the Quakers
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Society of Friends
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Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced to surrender to English
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Peter Stuyvesant
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man responsible for establishing a settlement at Philadelphia
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William Penn
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Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build
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log cabins
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Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of
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the Moravians
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the origianl 13 colonies were eventually controlled by
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England
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Who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them to survive?
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Squanto
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Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)is associated with which colony?
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Maryland
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Savannah was the first settlement in _____.
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Georgia
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John Rolfe, Pocahontas, and tobacco are all associated with the colony of ____.
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Virginia
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James Olgethorpe planned and directed the building of which colony?
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Georgia
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What colony did the Ark and the Dove bring colonists from England to?
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Maryland
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House of Burgesses was the elected body in which colony?
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Virginia
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England's first colony
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Virginia
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Charlestown was the first permanent settlement in _____.
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the Carolinas
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Plantation farms are associated with which colonies?
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the Carolinas
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Which colony established religious freedom for the Catholics?
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Maryland
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What were the years of the Great Awakening?
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1730-1760
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Connecticut-born preacher who was one of the first leaders in the Great Awakening
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Jonathan Edwards
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English evangelist who preached in the colonies, sometimes to 20,000 people at once
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George Whitfield
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Phillis Wheatley is best known as America's first
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black woman writer to have a book published
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Be able to explain ideas spread during the Great Awakening led to a desire fro liberty and the War for Independence.
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see p. 134, second column
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Be able to find these peninsulas:
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Alaska, Baja California, Florida, Labrador, Ungava, Yucatan
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