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30 Cards in this Set
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Name 2 things about the Virginia Company |
1. Most famous joint-stock company 2. It divide into 2 groups the London group & the Plymouth group |
One of the groups start with an L but the other group starts with a P |
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Name the 5 reasons why the English came. |
1. The English were motivated by personal profit & they were in competition w/the Sanish 2. They wanted to own land 3. England had a shortage of jobs; so they came for jobs 4. They came for political freedom like the Magna Carta promised 5. They wanted feligious freedom & they wanted an adventure |
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What were the difficulties of the colonization? |
1. They had to pay for the voyage 2. They were illneses 3. They were hungery |
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Joint-stock companies |
People who pulled $ to form a company & sold stock |
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What is a charter/Charter colony? |
Permission to start a town/permission by the king to start a town |
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Proprietary colonies |
The king gives the proprietor the promission to rule tge colony or town |
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Proprietor |
Basically he/she would take the place of the king/queen to rule a colony mostly inthe new world |
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Royal colony |
Same as proprietary colony except the king ruled instead etary colony except the king ruled instead etary colony except the king ruled instead |
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Name the 3 physical hardships |
1. Food & shelter 2. Illness 3. Indians |
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Puritans |
They wanted to purify the Church of England( they were crazy & weren't liked) |
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Sepertatists |
Didn't believe that the Church of England/Anglican Church should be purified so they went to the New World to start their own church |
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Who was the Anglican Church started by |
Henry VIII |
Michals younger brother |
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Why did most settlers go to the New World? |
Because most of them were searching for religious freedom |
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What was the Speedwell and what happened to it? |
It was one of the boats that was sailed w/the Mayflower & and it the boat got a purposly ignored leak so everyone on that boat had to cram on to the Mayflower |
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Mayflower Compact |
Provided self gonernment in the New World |
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What were the 3 things that the pilvrims ate? |
Walnuts Lobsters Bass |
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What were the homes like that the people lived in ? |
Most of the homes were shacks |
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Massachusetts Bay Company |
Formed by the puritans |
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John Winthrop |
1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Co. |
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Freemen |
Stockholder |
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If you didn't agree with the puritans what would happen? |
They would kick you out of their colony( Massachusetts) |
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Name the 3 reasons why Roger Williams had to leave Massachusetts and how did this cause him to start Rhode Island |
1. He believed church & state shuold be seperate 2. He said to pay the Indians for their land 3. He didn't want to purify a church so he started a new one This caused him to start Rhode Island |
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Thomas Hooker |
Started Connecticut because Massachusetts was to over crowded |
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Fundemental Orders of Connecticut |
It was the 1st constitution in America |
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Where else did the colonists go since Massachusetts was so over crowding? |
New Hampshire, Maine, & Vermont |
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New York was called? |
New Netherland |
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New York City was called? |
New Amsterdam |
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Patroons |
People who had brought 50 people to Ametica. Then they would get a piece of land |
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Mercantilism |
Trade |
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The king gave who $ to pay off for his fathers debt |
William Penn |
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