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15 Cards in this Set
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Joint stock companies |
Businesses owned by investors, who purchased shares of stock and share the profits and losses |
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Parliament |
Legislator of Great Britain, composed of the House of Commons Khama whose members are elected, and the house of lords Khama whose members are either hereditary or appointed |
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Puritans |
English religious dissenters who sought to "purify" the church of England of its Catholic practices |
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Tobacco |
The cash crop grown in the Caribbean as well as Virginia and Maryland colonies, Increasingly profitable by rapid growing popularity of smoking in Europe after the voyages of Columbus |
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Headright |
A land Grant policy that promised 50 acres to any colonist Who could afford passages to Virginia and 50 more for any accompanying servants. The headright policy was eventually expanded to include any colonists- and was also adopted in other colonies. |
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Mayflower compact 1620 |
A formal agreement signed by the separatists colonists aboard the Mayflower to abide by laws made by leaders of their own choosing |
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Massachusetts Bay colony |
English colony founded by Puritans in 1630 has a heaven for persecuted Congregations |
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Carolina colonies |
English proprietary colonies composing North and South Carolina, whose semitropical climate made them profitable centers of rice, timber, and tar production |
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New netherland |
Dutch colony conquered by the English in 1667, out of which 4 new colonies were created like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware |
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Powhatan Confederacy |
An alliance of several powerful Algonquian tribes under the leadership of chief Powhatan, organized into 30 chiefdom's along much of the Atlantic coasts in the late 16th and early 17th centuries |
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Bacon's rebellion 1676 |
Unsuccessful revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia governor William Berkley's administration, which, Bacon charged, had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids |
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King Philip's war 1675-1678 |
A war in New England resulting from the escalation of tensions between Nettie Americans and English settlers; the defeat of the Native Americans led to broadened and freedoms for the settlers and that their dispossessing the region's Native Americans of most of their land |
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Iroquois league |
An alliance of the Iroquois Nations, originally formed sometime between 1450 and 1600, that used their combined strength to pressure Europeans to work with them in the fur trade and to wage war across what is today Eastern Northern America |
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Indentured servants |
Settlers who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage to the new world |
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Middle passage |
The hellish and often deadly middle leg of the transatlantic "Triangular trade" In which European ships carried manufactured goods to Africa, then transported enslaved Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean, and finally conveyed American agriculture products back to Europe |
