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25 Cards in this Set
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john Winthrop |
first governor of Massachusetts By Company
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Great Migration |
from 1630 to 1642, 25,000 Puritans migrated to the New world because of persecution in England
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"City Upon a Hill" |
the Puritans wish to be this, an example to the world |
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Harvard College |
the first institution of higher learning in America to prepare young men for ministry |
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William Penn |
became a Quaker man; son of a wealthy and prestigious English man |
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Pennsylvania |
haven for quakers |
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Delaware |
remained under the same Governor as Pennsylvania |
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Georgia |
Last of the 13 colonies to be settled and it was settled not for profit but was given away |
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New Jersey |
offered land on easy terms and had religious freedom |
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Philadelphia |
City of Brotherly Love |
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Maryland |
first successful proprietary colony; toleration act had to do with this |
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New York |
named in honor of the Duke of York and remained a royal colony until America's war for independence |
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Proprietary Colony |
a colony on a land grant in which a English king made to a nobleman |
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Proprietor |
Governed the colony |
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New Netherland |
was made up of New Amsterdam, Fort Orange and other Dutch settlements. |
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King Phillip's War |
Tried to unite the Indian tribes against the white settlers for making money off selling alcohol to the Indians |
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First Baptist church was started here |
Rhode Island |
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Providence |
means protection; founded by Roger WIlliams; capital of Rhode Island |
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Roger Williams |
disagreed with the leaders of Massachusetts Bay Colony and was banished. Founder of Rhode Island and published A Key to the Language of America. |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
First written constitution in America and it established representative government |
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Thomas Hooker |
founded Hartford, Connecticut; he was part of the great migration; also adopted fundamental orders |
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Puritan Work Ethic |
the belief a man is called to work and all work has a sense of nobility and a Christian serves God best by working faithfully and diligently in his calling. |
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Algonquin Bible |
completed in 1663 by John Elliott; first Bible printed in America |
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Law required all parents to see that their children learned to read was in this state |
Massachusetts |
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People in Massachusetts wanted to defeat this |
Ole Deluder Satan Act |
