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Glorious Revolution
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the events of 1688-89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs Also called Bloodless Revolution
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Colonial regions – New England, Middle, Chesapeake, Southern
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New England was settled mainly by the puritans and catholics in the mid 17th; Chesapeake were mainly black slaves
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Oliver Cromwell
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was an English military and political leader best known in England for his overthrow of the monarchy of King Charles 1st
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Joint-Stock Company
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a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company. Certificates of ownership. The Plymouth and Virginia were the first two companies in the new world
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Richard Hakluyt
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An English writer who is widely known for his writitng is promoting the colonization of North America
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Avarice
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excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain
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Captain John Smith
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Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Indian girl Pocahontas
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Sir John Rolfe
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was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas
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Edwin Sandys
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was an English statesman and one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown
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Virginia Company
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pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America
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Headright
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legal grant of land to settlers. Headrights are most notable for their role in the expansion of the thirteen British colonies in North America
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House of Burgesses
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to mean an elected or appointed official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.
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George Calvert
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was secretary of state for King James 1, until announcing his catholicism in a strong anti-catholic era. He was stripped of his title but was still in good relations for the king. Took a charter to colonize new land but died 5 years before. His son took over
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Lord Baltimore
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was the first proprietor of the Maryland colony
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Seperatists
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one of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of England
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William Bradford
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was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John Carver died. His journal (1620–1647) was published as Of Plymouth Plantation. Bradford is credited as the first civil authority to designate what popular American culture now views as Thanksgiving in the United States.
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Mayflower Compact
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was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Almost half of the colonists were part of a separatist group seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination and not the will of the English Church
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Squanto
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was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. The Patuxet tribe was a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
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Puritans
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a member of a 16th and 17th century Protestant group in England and New England opposing as unscriptural the ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England
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John Winthrop
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was one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I. In 1630 he led a group of colonists to the New World, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River
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Congretionalism
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of or relating to a body of Protestant churches deriving from the English Independents of the 17th century and affirming the essential importance and the autonomy of the local congregation
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Antinomianism
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one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation
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Governor Nicolls
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was the first British colonial governor of New York province.
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Duke’s Laws
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The Duke's Laws covered nearly every facet of life on Long Island and were published in alphabetical order—from how arrests were to be carried out, how juries were to be picked, to the amount of the bounty paid for dead wolves
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Peter Stuyvesant
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served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.
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George Fox
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was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
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“Freemen”
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Freeman is a term used generally as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons (males) who were not under legal restraint
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Roger Williams
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was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence, before leaving to become a Seeker. He was a student of Native American languages and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans.
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Anne Hutchinson
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was an early-17th Puritan living in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands who became the leader of a dissident church discussion group. Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women that soon appealed to men as well. Eventually, she went beyond Bible study to proclaim her own theological interpretations of sermons. Some of these offended colony leadership and Hutchinson was accused of practicing antinomianism. A major controversy ensued and after a trial before a jury of officials and clergy, she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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William Penn
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The founder of Pennsylvania
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Charter of Liberties
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The Charter of Liberties, also called the Coronation Charter, was a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100. It sought to bind the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles
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True and Absolute Lord Proprietors of Carolina
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King Charles II owed an enormous debt to his friends who helped restore the monarchy, so he rewarded eight of them with a grant of land that included what is now North and South Carolina. The Charter of Carolina of 1663
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted in March 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida.
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James Oglethorpe
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founder of the colony of Georgia in the United States
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