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25 Cards in this Set
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Bartholomeu Diaz |
1486: Rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa; Saw an eastern coast and headed north. |
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Henry Hudson |
1609: Looked for a northwest passage to the Hudson Bay (Dutch New Netherland, later the English take it and rename it New York). |
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Prince Henry |
The navigator - driving force of Portuguese Oceanic navigation. |
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Hernando Cortes |
1519: Led military against Aztecs in Mexico and was defeated. |
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Define "Gentry" |
People of high social class. |
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"The Starving Time" |
Captain John Smith took over Jamestown & established the policy that anyone who does not work, will not eat (2 Thess. 3:10). |
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"Headright" |
Legal grant of 50 acres to settlers. |
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John Rolfe |
Married Pocahontas; Taught Virginia colonists how to grow tobacco - stable crop of American Indians. |
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"Indentured Servant" |
Person whose passage to America was paid for by a colonist. In return, the servant worked for the colonist for a set amount of time, then was free. |
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Separatists: |
Puritan pilgrims who sailed from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower in 1620. Created the Mayflower Compact - an agreement to establish government. |
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Quakers: |
Lower class puritans. |
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William Penn |
Englishman who became a quaker and was persecuted for it. |
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Eventually the most populated colony |
Pennsylvania |
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Majority of indentured servants came from where? |
London, England |
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Another word for gold & silver |
Bullion |
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Molasses Act of 1733 |
Regulated trade between colonies & England. |
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The main crop of Charleston |
Rice |
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Roger Williams |
Leader & minister of Puritans; Created Separation of Church & State. |
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One nation state is superior to others |
Merchantilism |
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Two preachers of The Great Awakening |
Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield |
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First great American revival that began in 1730s |
The Great Awakening |
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To who were the people of Bacon's Rebellion against? |
Sir William Berkeley (governor of Virginia) |
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Bacon's rebellion was led by who? |
Nathaniel Bacon |
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Predestination |
Doctrine that all events have been willed by God. |
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Enlightenment |
Encouraged people to look to themselves - Not just God - for guidance on how to live their lives. |
