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19 Cards in this Set
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immigration to America |
why, discontent with the church of England, land, political turmoil, Escape jail terms, Escape poverty |
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the Chesapeake |
Virginia and Maryland |
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joint stock companies |
money raised by many investors |
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Jamestown |
First permanent British colony in the new world, disease-ridden, marshy, contaminated drinking water. They hunted for riches instead of planting crops, individualism, poor leaders, starvation, shipwreck in Bermuda |
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John Smith |
Traded with Indians, map the area. Kidnapped. saved by Pocahontas |
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tobacco |
Colony built on smoke John Rolfe stinking weed |
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indentured servants |
Free passage in return for servanthood for a number of stated years many were cheated |
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Maryland |
Refuge for Catholics, second Chesapeake Colony, resembled Virginia |
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act concerning religion |
1649, religious toleration for those who accepted the Divinity of Christ |
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Plymouth |
separatists left Holland, kids, dutchification, 1620, complained Anglican Church was too Catholic |
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Mayflower Compact |
Signed by 41 men, formed a civil body Politik a democratic Covenant |
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The Great Migration |
In the 1630s 16,000 Puritans migrated to Massachusetts Bay |
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Massachusetts Bay |
Mini nuclear families, high life expectancy, city on a hill |
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Religious toleration was never found in Massachusetts |
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Rodger Williams |
Religious toleration, banished, created Providence Rhode Island |
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Anne Hutchinson |
Antinomianism, no ministers needed, no Bible, only divine inspiration, banished, created Portsmouth Rhode Island |
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restoration colonies |
The Carolinas New York and Pennsylvania, given by Charles II as a gift to supporters |
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the middle colonies |
New York Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware, heterogeneous population, bread colonies |
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Pennsylvania |
William Penn Quakers, religious Society of Friends, holy experiment |
