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14 Cards in this Set
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MESOAMERICA
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REGION FROM CENTRAL MEXICO DOWN SOUTH TO THE NW BORDER OF COSTA RICA
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LINE OF DEMARCATION
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Line drawn by Pope Alexander VI in 1493-1494 to assign colonial spheres of interest in the Americas to Portugal and Spain.
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TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
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divided the world outside of Europe in an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian 370 leagues (1770 km; 1100 miles) west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa), roughly 46° 37' W. The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain.
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LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE
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BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH WHO GOT A CHARTER TO MAKE A COLONY FROM THE QUEEN ELIZABETH; DISAPPEARED WITHIN 3 YEARS W/O A TRACE
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VIRGINIA COMPANY
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In June of 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of London entrepreneurs to establish a satellite English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America; under Captain John Smith; Founded Jamestown
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VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES
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made up the other part of the General Assembly. Its members were chosen by all those who could vote in the colony; the lower house of the Colony of Virginia. It was the first elected legislative assembly in the New World.
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WILLIAM BRADFORD
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leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and became Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT
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signed on 11 November 1620 on board the Mayflower;covenant in that the settlers agreed to form a government and be bound by its rules
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JOHN WINTHROP
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KNOWN FOR CITY UPON A HILL; BELIVED THAT GOD WOULD PUNISH ENGLAND FOR HERESY; WANTED TO GET THE ENGLISH PURITANS AWAY FROM ENGLAND; WANTED TO CLEANSE THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CATHOLIC RITUALS
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CITY ON A HILL
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BY JOHN WINTHROP AND THE PURITANS; BELIEVED THAT THEY HAD TO BE SORT OF ROLE MODELS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD SINCE THEY HAD A PROMISE WITH GOD; WANTED EVERYONE TO LOOK UPON
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ROGER WILLIAMS
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WANTED SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE; DIDN'T AGREE WITH THE STRICT PURITAN VALUES; FOUNDED PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
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THOMAS HOOOKER
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FOUNDER OF CONNECTICUT COLONY;CREATED THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT
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PEQUOT WAR
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virtual elimination of the Pequot Indians as a tribe BY THE MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT SETTLERS FROM ENGLAND; RESULTED FROM THE EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE FUR TRADE
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KING PHILLIPS WAR
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was a general Indian uprising in 1675–1676 to resist continued expansion of the English colonies throughout the New England region; RESULTED IN new culture in which native peoples were marginalized and the white settlers were dominant
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