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39 Cards in this Set
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North America in ___ was largely unclaimed, though the ___ had much control in Central and South America.
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1600, Spanish
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Spain had only set up ____, while ____ had founded Quebec and Britain had founded ____.
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Santa Fe, Quebec, Jamestown
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In the ____s, Britain didn’t really colonize because of internal conflicts.
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1500
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_____broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the ____s and launched the ____ ____ _____.
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King Henry VIII, 1530's, English Protestant Reformation
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After ____ became queen, Britain became basically ____ , and a rivalry with Catholic COUNTRY intensified.
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Elizabeth I, Protestant, Spain
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In COUNTRY, the Catholics sought Spain’s help in revolting against England, but the____ crushed the uprising with brutal atrocity, and developed an attitude of sneering contempt for natives.
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Ireland, English
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After Britain basically defeated Spain (i.e. ____ _____ defeat), British swarmed to America and took over lead in colonization and power.
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Spanish Aramada
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After ____ circumnavigated the globe, Liz I knighted him on his ship.
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Drake
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Britain and Spain finally signed a peace treaty in ____.
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1604
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1500's- RELIGION took a strong root in the woolen districts of western and eastern England.
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Puritanism
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By the 1600s, the____-_____ company was perfected, being a forerunner to today’s corporations.
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joint-stock
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In ___, the Virginia Company received a charter from King _____ to make a settlement in the New World.
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1606, James I
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On May 24, ____, about a 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown.
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1607
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In ____, a Captain John Smith took over control and whipped the colonists into discipline.
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1608
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in ____, a relief party headed by Lord __ __ ____ arrived to alleviate the suffering.
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1610, De La Warr
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By____, out of an original overall total of 8000 would-be settlers, only 1200 had survived.
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1625
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TRIBE possibly considered the new colonists potential allies and tried to be friendly with them, but as time passed and colonists raided Indian food supplies, relations deteriorated and eventually, war occurred.
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Powhatan
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First Anglo-Powhatan War ended in ____ with a peace settlement sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe.
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1614
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Later, in ___ , the Indians struck again with a series of attacks that left 347 settlers, including John Rolfe, dead.
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1622
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The Second Anglo-Powhatan War began in ___, ended in ____ and effectively banished the TRIBE Indians from their ancestral lands.
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1644, 1646, Chesapeake
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_____ created a greed for land, since it heavily depleted soil and ruined the land.
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Tobacco
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___ ____ _ detested tobacco.
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King James I
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Representative self-government was born in Virginia,in___, settlers created the ___ __ _____
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1619, House of Burgesses.
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Slavery in the Americas was born in _____
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1619
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Founded in ____ by Lord ____, _____ was the second plantation colony and the fourth overall colony to be formed
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1634, Baltimore, Maryland
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_______ was a place for persecuted ______ to find refuge.
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Maryland, Catholics
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Lord Baltimore gave huge estates to his Catholic relatives, but the poorer people who settled there where mostly _____, creating friction.
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Protestant
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Maryland prospered with____ and It had a lot of indentured servants.
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tobacco
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As the British were colonizing Virginia, they were also settling in the ____ _____
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West Indies
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By mid-1600s, England had secured claim to several West Indies islands, including Jamaica in ____
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1655
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Thousands of African slaves were needed to operate ____ plantations, in Jamaica
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sugar
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To control slaves _____ were set up that defined the legal status of slaves and the rights of the masters.
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codes
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In England, King Charles I had been beheaded. _____ _____ had ruled for ten years before tired Englishmen restored Charles II to the throne
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Oliver Cromwell
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Carolina was named after ____ ____and was formally created in ___.
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Charles II, 1670
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____ emerged as the principle crop in Carolina.
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Rice
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Many newcomers to Carolina were ____” people who owned no land.
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squatters
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In ___, North and South Carolina were officially separated.
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1712
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_____ was intended to be a buffer between the British colonies and the hostile Spanish settlements in Florida and the enemy French in Louisiana.
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Georgia
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Georgia was last colony founded in ___
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1733
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