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7 Cards in this Set
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Who is Captain John Smith
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English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. Smith also led expeditions exploring Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast
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Who is Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
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-member of the East India Company
-founder of Maryland |
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Who is William Bradford
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English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
-credited as the first to proclaim what popular American culture now views as the first Thanksgiving. |
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Who is William Penn
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founded Province of Pennsylvania
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Proclamation of 1763
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called for a halt to westward expansion beyond the Appalachians
the Britons hoped to keep the colonists tied more closely to English colonial authorities by confining them to the coast. -the Seven Years’ War had put England in dire financial straits, and keeping colonists east of the Appalachians would facilitate the collection of taxes and allow England to refill its coffers |
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sugar tax /Stamp Act
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no taxation without representation /
taxes on all printed materials, including legal papers, playing cards, and newspapers. No one could sell pamphlets or newspapers or distribute diplomas or licenses without first purchasing special stamps and placing them on the printed materi |
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Who is Samuel Adams
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leader of the fight against British colonial rule
-a signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
