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37 Cards in this Set
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2 changes that made the europeans look for new lands
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Significant growth & black death,
emergence of new powerful governments |
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Early power in the early stages of discovery
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Portugal
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The land Columbus claimed under the spanish flag was named after
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Amerigo vespucci
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The new world was attractive because it offered this rare commodity
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Land
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mercantalist theory of economics
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economic health relied on selling more goods than bought
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puritans were discontent during the reign of James 1 because
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-illegally taxed them
-Favored catholics -Supported high church forms of ceremony |
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first permanent english settlement was
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Jamestown
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4 things that shaped Chesapeake bay area colonies
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-Colonies as buissness enterprises
-developed own political systems -few efforts to blend with natives -Nothing worked as planned |
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first major crop from VA colonies
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Tobacco
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System that granted 50 acre grants to VA settler colonists
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Headrights
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George calvert envisioned Maryland to be a safe haven for embattled
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catholics
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Maryland Act Concerning Religion
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People were granted religious tolerance
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Scrooby exiles: moved to holland, emigrated to New World
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Pilgrims
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Pilgrims document that established their government
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Mayflower compact
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John Winthrop envisioned Massachusetts to be
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a city on a hill
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Puritans were trying to establish a ______ government
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Theocracy
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Founder of Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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Name of war between Connecticut Valley English and Native Americans
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Pequot War
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2 rifles used in the early Native American Wars
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Matchlock
Flintwood |
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Acts that established legal basis of Englands regulation of the colonies for a century
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Navigation Acts
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3/4 of immigrants who came to the chesapeake colonies were
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Indentured servants
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The average wife experienced pregnancies every
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2 years
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Blacks transported to the US were from the
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West Indies
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Most numerous non-english immigrants
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Scotch-irish
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a common problem in the colonial commerce was
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no common currency
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diverse trade routes that involved selling rum slaves and sugar was known as
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triangle trade
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colonial plantations were
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rough and small
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The characteristic social unit in New England was
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Town
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New England colonial town meetings were restricted to
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White male adult church members
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Intellectual and religious thought in colonial America revolved around emphasis on_____and new spirit of _____
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Personal God
Enlightenment |
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Outstanding colonial preacher during the great awakening was the congregationalist
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jonathan Edwards
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Enlightenment celebrated the power of _____&________
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Human reason
scientific inquiry |
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Enlightenment encouraged men and women to look not just to God but to themselves and their
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Intellect
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Among white males in colonial america, there was a ______level of literacy
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low
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The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of the improved
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Printing press
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The colonials placed a _____ value on education
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high
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The first American college was
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Harvard
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