Unit One Key Terms

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PLYMOUTH COLONY:

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Who: Founded by separatists or later called pilgrims
What: An English colonial venture
Where: North America; Massachusetts
Significance: It was one of the first settlements founded at New Plymouth. It was also place of refuge where you could practice your worship of god as you saw fit.

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MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620

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Who: Written by colonists that later together were known as the pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic abroad the mayflower.
What: Was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
Where: Within the Plymouth Colony.
Significance: This was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.

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. HEADRIGHT SYSTEM

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Who: The Virginia Company of London as well as the Plymouth Company.
What: A legal grant of land to settlers given to anyone willing to cross the Atlantic Ocean and help populate the colonies.
Where: Used in Jamestown, Virginia.
Significance: an attempt to solve labor shortages as well as a way to attract immigrants.

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FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639

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Who: adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1638
What: Orders were to describe the government set up by the Connecticut river towns, setting its structure and powers.
Where: The Connecticut Colony.
Significance: It earned Connecticut the nickname: The Constitution State.

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MERCANTILISM:

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Who: Economic theory
What: is the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of goods
Where: Encouraged most of the European wars and fueled European imperialism
Significance: it was the dominant school of thought throughout the early modern period (from 16th to 18th century)

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. TRIANGULAR TRADE

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Who:
What: Three trading ports or regions where trade occurred; carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods
Where: West Africa, the Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers
Significance: Goods, cash crops, and slaves were able to be exported throughout Europe.