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36 Cards in this Set
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Man who started Roanoke Colony
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Man who led the Jamestown Colony
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Captain John Smith
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Founder of Georgia
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James Ogelthorpe
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Man responsible for the settlement of Pennsylvania
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William Penn
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Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
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John Winthrop
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Island that was the site of England's first American colony.
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Roanoke
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Colony settled by the Pilgrams.
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Plymouth
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First permanent English colony in the New World.
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Jamestown
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Colony in which Jamestown was located
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Virginia
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Colony with the first form of representative government, the House of Burgesses
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Virginia
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State in which Plymouth Colony was established
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Massachusetts
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Metal sought by many Jamestown settlers
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Gold
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Ship that carried the Pilgrams to the New World
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Mayflower
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Insect that made many people in Jamestown ill
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mosquito
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Occupation of most of the Colonists in America
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farming
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First major crop from Jamestown sold to England
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Tobacco
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Document that gave a group rights and privilages to settle an area
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Charter
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Exchange of goods
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trade
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What the Puritans and Pilgrams hoped to have in the New World
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religious freedom
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Form of government favored by most colonists, in which people rule themselves.
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self government
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Religion that most people who settled in Maryland
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Catholic
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Form of government practiced in Virginia in which people elected other people to make laws for them
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representative government
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Indian princess that is supposed to have saved John Smith's life
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Pocahontas
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A person who would agree to work for from five to seven years in return for passage to the New World
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Indentured Servant
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Minister who fled Massachusetts to start a colony that allowed religious freedom.
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Roger Williams
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Man who learned how to produce tobacco
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John Rolfe
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Colony settled by the Puritans
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Massachusetts Bay
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Colony whose proprietor was Lord Baltimore
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Maryland
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Island purchased for $24 by the Dutch
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Manhattan
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Area formed in 1691 by the union of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies
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Massachusetts
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Agreement the Pilgrams signed that gave them the beginnings of self government
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Mayflower Compact
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Resources desired by the French in building their empire in the New World
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Fish
Fur Friendly with the indians |
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Resources desired by the Spanish in building their empire in the New World
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Gold
God Glory |
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Resources desired by the English in building their empire in the New World
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Economic
Expanding land Escaping Religious Persecution |
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Mayflower Compacts Main Idea
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Majority Rule
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First Written Constitution
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Fundamental Orders of Connitecut
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