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37 Cards in this Set
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The first successful English colony
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Jamestown |
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Explorer who claimed part of North America for England
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John Cabot |
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Ruler who allowed /sir Walter Raleigh to begin a colony at Roanoke Virginia
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Queen Elizabeth |
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Colonist who said "He that will not work shall not eat"
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John Smith |
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Governor of Roanoke who found the message "Croatoan" carved on a tree
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John White |
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England defeated the _______ Armada in 1588
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Spanish |
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Jamestown was founded in what year?
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1607 |
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The first place separatists moved when they left England was
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Holland |
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The first written agreement of self-government in America
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Mayflower Compact |
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The ships that brought settlers to Jamestown
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Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery |
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The first governor of Jamestown
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Lord De La Warr |
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Second governor of Plymouth; wrote Of Plymouth Plantation
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William Bradford |
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the Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped the colony to survive
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Squanto |
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The first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims
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Samoset |
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founded first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America
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Roger Williams |
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was hired to protect the Pilgrims at Plymouth
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Captain Miles Standish |
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The name of the colony that is now the state of New York
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New Netherland |
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The Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced to surrender to the English |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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The first written constitution in America
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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The year the Pilgrims established their colony at Plymouth
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1620 |
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The Ole' Deluder Satan Act established the first _______ in America
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Public Schools |
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Colonial Virginia's elected body of representatives
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House of Burgess |
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Georgia's first permanent settlement
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Savannah |
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The first royal colony owned by the King of England
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Virginia |
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South Carolina's first permanent settlement
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Charleston |
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what town became the capital of Virginia in 1699?
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Williamsburg |
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Lord Baltimore requested American land to begin this colony for English Catholics
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Maryland |
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The Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build what kind of homes?
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log cabins |
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Who were the Society of Friends?
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Quakers |
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The man responsible for establishing a settlement at Philadelphia was
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William Penn |
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Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of this group
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Moravians |
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one of the first missionaries spurred by the Great Awakening
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David Brainerd |
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the minister of colony at Plymouth
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Elder Brewster
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Conn. born preacher who was one of the first leaders in the Great Awakening; he preached a series of sermons about salvations
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Jonathan Edwards |
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English evangelist who preached throughout the colonies; sometimes to 20k people at once
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George Whitfield |
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America's first black woman writer to have a book published
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Phyllis Wheatley |
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planned and directed the building of the first Georgian settlement
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James Oglethorpe |