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34 Cards in this Set
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glorious revolution
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1688. was the overthrow of king James II of England by a union of parliamentarians with an invading army led by the William III of Orange-Nassau
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Colonial regions- new england, middle, chesapeake, southern
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English colonist came to north america to institute a purer form of worship, to own land, escape bad marriages, or escape jail terms. Chesapeake came and left almost no records of their previous lives in England.
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Oliver Cromwell
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an English military and political leader best known in England for his overthrow of the monarchy and temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth and for his rule as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Joint-Stock Company
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a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company.
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Richard Hakluyt
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an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his writings.
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avarice
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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain
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captain john smith
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established the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. Associated with Pocahontas.
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Sir John Rolfe
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early settler of North America. Cultivated the first tobacco plant. Married Pocahontas.
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Sir Edwin Sandys
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english statesman and one of the founders of proprietary Virginia Company of London, that established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown
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Virginia Company
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a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America
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headright
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a legal grant of land to settlers
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house of Burgesses
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The first legistlature in the English colonies in America. The first meeting was in Virginia in 1619 at a church in Jamestown. They met at first only once a year, until England took more control over things in Virginia and restricted the powers of the house of Burgesses.
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Sir George Calvert
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English politician and colonizer. a Member of Parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I, though he lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish royal family
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Lord Baltimore
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a talented and educated man. Awarded lucrative positions in the government. He became the kings secretary of State.
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Seperatists
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English Protestants who occupied the extreme wing of Puritanism. The Separatists were severely critical of the Church of England and wanted to either destroy it or separate from it
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William Bradford
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an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John Carver died.
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Mayflower Compact
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the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the pilgrims , who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower
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Squanto
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the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival.
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Puritans
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a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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John Winthrop
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one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I. In 1630 he led a group of colonists to the New World, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River
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congregationalism
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a form of church governance based on the local congregation
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Antinomianism
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a belief or tendency in all religions that some therein consider existing laws as no longer applicable to themselves
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Governor Nicolls
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the first British colonial governor of New York province.He commanded a royalist troop of horse during the English Civil War, and on the defeat of the king went into exile
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Duke’s Laws
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a set of guidelines laid out during colonial times in Long Island.covered nearly every facet of life on Long Island and were published in alphabetical order—from how arrests were to be carried out, how juries were to be picked, to the amount of the bounty paid for dead wolves.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.
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George Fox
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an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
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“Freemen”
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generally as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons (males) who were not under legal restraint – usually for the payment of an outstanding debt, because they had recently relocated, or because they were idle and had no way in which they could continue the justification of their stay within the colony.
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Roger Williams
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an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities
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Anne Hutchinson
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an early-17th Puritan living in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands who became the leader of a dissident church discussion group. Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women that soon appealed to men as well
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William Penn
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an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder and "absolute proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Charter of Liberties
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a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100. It sought to bind the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles. It is considered a landmark document
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True and Absolute Lord Proprietors of Carolina
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They were to “have, use, exercise, and enjoy” the colony “in as ample a manner as any bishop of Durham in our kingdom of England.”
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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were adopted in March 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida
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James Oglethorpe
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a British general, member of parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia in the United States
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