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20 Cards in this Set
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Virginia Company |
Joint stock company that was approved by King James to create new settlements in the colony. Joint stock company is a business organization with which investors pooled money in order to purchase stock in a company |
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Charter |
an official permit to start a colony from the English Monarch who was entitled to a portion of the profits. |
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Jamestown |
the first permanent English settlement in North America |
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Powhatan |
a chief of the American Indian people of Eastern Virginia |
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Royal Colony |
type of colonial administration of the British over seas territories. Ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
Armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley |
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House of Burgesses |
The lower house of the colonial Virginia Legislature |
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Puritans |
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the reformation of the church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship |
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half-way covenant |
form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662 |
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Massachusetts Bay Colony |
English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century. the Northern most predecessor colony of the several colonies later recognized as the province of Massachusetts Bay |
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Roger Williams |
Puritan religious leader who came up with the idea of separation between church and state |
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town meeting |
a meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business |
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King Philip's War |
the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England |
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Salem Witch Trials |
Trials held in Salem Massachusetts in 1692 that led to the execution of twenty people for allegedly practicing witch craft |
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William Penn |
Founder of the province of Pennsylvania |
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New Amsterdam |
town founded on Manhattan Island by the dutch; later renamed New York by the British |
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Middle passage |
the seal Journey undertaken by slave ships |
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Jonathan Edwards |
American Clergy man of the eighteenth century; a leader in the religious revivals of the 1730's and 1740's known as the Great Awakening emphasized the absolute power of God |
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Great Awakening |
series of Religious Revivals among protestants in the American Colonies, especially in New England |
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mercantilism |
belief in teh benefit |
