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Beaver Wars
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(1640s-1680s), a series of conflicts between Iroquois and Algonquin tribes living near the Great Lakes. Involvement in the fur trade destabilized Native American cultures by introducing European diseases and by imparting economic stresses on natural resources. When demand for beaver furs led to the animals' being hunted out in traditional Iroquois land, tribal groups began expanding into Algonquin territories, leading to an escalating cycle of warfare.
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John Smith
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English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631).
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William Bradford
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United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752)
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Pequot War
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The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1634-1638 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies with Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) against the Pequot tribe.
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Navigation Acts
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The English Navigation Acts (1650-1673) were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England
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Metacom's War
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(1675 – 76) Bloodiest conflict between American colonists and Indians in 17th-century New England. By 1660 colonial settlers had pushed into Indian territory in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. To protect their lands, King Philip (Metacom) organized a federation of tribes, which destroyed several frontier settlements. In retaliation the colonial militia burned Indian villages and crops. After Philip's death in 1676, Indian resistance collapsed. An estimated 600 settlers and 3,000 Indians were killed in the conflict.
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Hernan Cortez
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was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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Encomienda
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A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
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William Berkeley
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Sir William Berkeley was a governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite.
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John Rolfe
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(c. 1585 - 1622) was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.
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Powhatan Confederacy
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is the name of a Virginia Indian tribe. It is also the name of a powerful group of tribes which they dominated.
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Anne Bradstreet
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(c. 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first female poet to be published from either Puritan America or England. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New.
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George Calvert
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Sir George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, 8th Proprietor Governor of Newfoundland (1579 - 15 April 1632) was an English politician and coloniser.
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Dominion of New England
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The Dominion of New England in America (1686–89) was a short-lived administrative union of English colonies in the New England region of North America.
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Middle Passage
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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies and/or Americas.
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Nethanial Bacon
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(c. 1640s - October 26, 1676) was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
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Negro Act of 1705 (Virginia)
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"If any slave resists his master...correcting such a slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction...the master shall be free of all punishment...as if such accident never happened."
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