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Northe West Passage
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explorers tried to find a passage from the atlantic to the pacific
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planters
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rich people who owned many plantations
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Nanthaniel Bacon
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led the rebellion against the Virginia government because of bad conditions in the colony
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indentured servants
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colonists who sign a contarct in which they worked for 4-7 years, in return they are paid their way to America
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Jaques Cartier
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french explorer who seached for the North West passage 3 times, instead found Canada, St. Lawrence River, and New Foundland
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squanto
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taught the Pilgrims planting and survival skills to help them improve the Plymouth colony
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Pilgrims
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Henry Hudson
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founded the hudson river and New Netherlands
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Seperatists
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extereme sect of Puritans who wanted to cut all ties from the Church of England
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Pilgrims
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a Seperatist group left England and fled to New Netherland to escape persecution
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charter
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written permission (document) to form (start) a colony
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Protestant Reformation
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started in order to reform the Roman Catholic Church
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Martin Luther
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started the Protestant Reformation
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Schism
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a division in a Church
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John Smith
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English explorer who helped the colony of Jamestown, Virginia; helped them build shelter thus decrease in death rates
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Bacon's Rebellion
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led by Nanthaniel Bacon, was an uprising against the Virginian government for bad conditins
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John Rolfe
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found tobacco, making a profit for the London Company thus saving Jamestown
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Headright System
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allowed you to gain 50 acres of land if you went to Virginia and an additional 50 acres for every other person you brought along
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sect
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a religious group
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New Netherlands
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where the Pilgrims fled to from bieng persecuted my the English
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immigrants
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people who come to a new land after leaving their land of birth
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William Bradford
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leader of the Pilgrims, and first governer for Plymouth(30 year term as gov.)
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Powhatan Confederacy
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gave food to the colonists at Jamestown, Virginia. Taught them the land and how to get food. Native Americans
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Sir Wlater Raleigh
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chartered the first expedition to Roanoke Colony
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Roanoke Island
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where Wlater Raligh came and settled and entire colony (113 people) in 1587, he came back in 1590 and found it deserted
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Mayflower Compact
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was one of the first attemts at self-government
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Ideology
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a common belief of a country
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