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22 Cards in this Set
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Interpretation
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The way each of us makes sense of things
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Vasco de Gama
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Portuguese explorer who in 1497 found a sea route to Asia around Africa
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Christopher Columbus
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Explorer for Spain, Found "new world" in 1492
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Colony
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Settlement of people from a distant region
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Home Country
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Governs the colony and makes most of the decisions concerning the colony
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Colonial Empire
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Group of colonies all controlled by one country
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Push factors
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Thing that pushed people away from their homelands
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Pull factors
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Thing that attracted people toward America
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Religious Freedom
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The ability to worship freely
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Religious intolerance
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Not allowing people to worship freely
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Roanoke
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Lost colony off the Atlantic Coast, over 100 people disappeared
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John White
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Governor of Roanoke who left and came back 2 years later and found everyone gone
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Captain John Smith
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Man in charge of Jamestown, who save it
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Indentured servants
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Colonist who received free passage to America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Colonist who lead an uprising
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Attack lead by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia
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Headright System
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System set up by the London Company in 1618 that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia
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House of Burgesses
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Virginia's elected assembly
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Puritans
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Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
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Squanto
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A kidnapped Indian who helped became fluent in English and helped the settlers
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Pocohantas
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A captured INdian who married John Rolfe Lady Rebecca
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John Rolfe
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Helped with Indian relationships at Jamestown when he married Pocohantas
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