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25 Cards in this Set
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pilgrims
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English Separatists--founded Plymouth, 1620
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Mayflower Compact
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promoted self-government & majority rule--pilgrims
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puritans
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wanted to purify Church of England--founded Mass Bay Colony
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puritan ethic
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god requires hard work, duty, honesty, godliness, literacy
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town meetings
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male church members vote in NE--early self-government
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dissenters
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people who rebelled against puritans
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Roger Williams
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dissenter--founded Rhode Island
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Jamestown
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first English colony in New World--1607
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Virginia Company
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created to make money--created Jamestown
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cavaliers
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wealthy nobility who wanted to make money in Virginia
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joint stock company
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investors receive share of company--VA started this way
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John Smith
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kept Jamestown alive; saved by Pocahontas
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Pocahontas
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daughter of Powhatan chief, married John Rolfe
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indentured servants
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people who sold their labor for passage to colonies
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House of Burgesses
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Virginia--first representative body in colonies
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cash crop
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grown for export or sale, eg tobacco
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Toleration Act
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Maryland, 1649, religious freedom
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Quakers
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religion, Pennsylvania, practiced equality & tolerance
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Appalachian Mountains
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largest eastern mts., includes Blue Ridge, Great Smokies
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middle class
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merchants, small farmers, artisans
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subsistence farmers
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farmers who grow only enough for family
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Middle Passage
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slave ships from Africa to colonies
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triangular trade
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NE traders--rum to Africa, Middle Passage back with slaves to West Indies, molasses to NE to make rum
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Great Awakening
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religious revival in 1700s, new churches, stressed equality
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Jamestown
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1stEnglish colony, VA Co., 1607, to make money
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