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Puritan
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A member of the group that wanted to eliminate all traces of Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England
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Massachusetts Bay
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Winthorp and friends obtained a royal charter for joint-stock enterprise, the Massachusetts Bay Company
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Pilgrims
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Separatists; a member of one of the Puritan groups that, denying the possibility of reform within the church of England, established their own independent congregations
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Mayflower Compact
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An agreement in which they created a civil government and pledged loyalty to the king
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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A written body of laws by which the connecticut settlers would govern themselves
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Roger Williams
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Founder of Providence, Rhode Island
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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English navigator
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Jamestown
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1607 town named after King James
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Maryland
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Catholics
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Pennsylvania
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Quakers
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William Penn
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Founder of Pennsylvania
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Southern colonies
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Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virgina,
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New England
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Rhode Island, COnnecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
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Middle Colonies
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Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York
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French Islands and Spanish Islands
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I don't know really but i'll find out soon enough
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Harvard
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1636; United States' first private college
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Half-way convent
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A convent mad between the Puritan church and it's members. Stated that in order to become a member you didn't have to go through the grillings.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Led by planter Nathaniel Bacon because of the hostility between tribes and frontier planters
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John Peter Zenger
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German writer who wrote for the New York Weekly Journal; defendant in a famous trial which set a precedent for freedom of the press
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French and Indian War
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A conflict in North America lasting from 1754 - 1763, that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain. ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain
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Proclamation of 1763
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An order which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Treaty of Paris of 1763
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Ended the French and Indian War
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Thomas Paine
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Author of Common Sense, a 47 page essay published in pamplet form attacking King George and the monarchy
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Intolerable Acts
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A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
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Stamp Act
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A 1765 law in which parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
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"No Taxation without Represention"
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colonist sentiment as a result of British Parliament issuing the direct/indirect raxes on the colonial people
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virtual represenation
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What the British told the colonists they had. COlonists did not have actual diplomats as representatives
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Actual Representation
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Colonists wanted actual representation that were chosen by the people to express colonial opinions in Parliamentary decisions
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