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34 Cards in this Set
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Jamestown |
Settlement in colony of Virginia and as the first permanent english settlement in the Americas |
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Indentured servants |
Men and women and sometimes children who signed a contract where they agreed to work for a certain # of years in exchange for passage to Virginia |
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Joint stock company |
A company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders |
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Massachusetts Bay colony |
English settlement on east coast of North America Capital is Boston Founded by John Winthrop |
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John Winthrop |
English puritan lawyer and one of leading founders of Massachusetts Bay colony |
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"City up in a hill" |
John Winthrop called the Massachusetts Bay colony this in a speech meaning their community would be watched by the world |
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Southern economy |
Focused on agriculture and plantations (tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruit and live stock) Had largest slave population working on slave plantations |
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Nathaniel Bacon |
Colonist of Virginia colony, started bacon rebellion |
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Slave rebellions |
Broke tools, faked illness, worked slowly Stono rebellion->tightening of slave laws and slaves ran away alot |
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Colonial government |
13 colonies ruled by England and their monarchs Governors were representatives of the king |
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Rover williams |
Separatist Be nicer to native people People should not be punished for religious beliefs |
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William Penn |
Worked to provide security of quakers in America |
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Anne Hutchinson |
Banished for believing church isn't necessary part of religion Fled to Rhode Island with family |
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Pequot |
First native American group to take a major stand against colonists |
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Metacom |
(King philip) Wampanoag chief who led two year war against colonists in southeastern new England |
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The new Netherland colony specialized in the ____ trade |
Fur |
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Sale of this saved jamestown |
Tobacco |
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Mestizo |
Large population developed following spanish settlement in America |
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One reason for conflict between native Americans and colonists |
Land |
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Virginia's colonial legislature: |
House of Burgesses |
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Encomienda |
Latin American natives forced to work for spanish |
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Most powerful nation in world during 16 th century |
Spain |
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Quaker |
Member of pacifist community commited to equality and friendship |
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Puritan |
Church members of Christian community who wanted to eliminate catholic influence in Church of England |
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Pueblo religious leader who led 1680 uprising against spanish |
Pope |
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Williams |
Founder of Providence, Rhode Island |
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Taino |
Group of people whose name means noble ones. Native people of San Salvador found by columbus |
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Anasazi |
Lived in cliff dwellings....four corners |
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Iroquois |
Native people who built villages in forest clearings and blended agriculture with hunting and gathering. Lived in eastern woodlands |
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Beringia |
Land bridge Asia to Alaska Formed during last ice age |
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Mercantilism |
Theory that a country's goal was gold and self sufficiency |
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Hernan cortes |
Spanish conquistador |
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New spain |
Found by cortes Capital is mexico city |
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Encomienda |
Grant of land made by spain to settlers in americas including right to use native Americans as laborers |
