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30 Cards in this Set
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Primary source
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A source from that particular time period
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Secondary source
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A source interpreted from the primary source
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Timeline
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A graphic representation of a succession of historical events
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Maps
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A visual representation of location, distance, physical feature, resource, climate and so on.
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Pictographs
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used to present visual data
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Scale models
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models of something that is a real size
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Jamestown
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First permanent United States colony in 1607
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John Smith
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Jamestown colony leader
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Indentured Servants
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A person who agreed to work several years for a person or company in return for passage to America
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Pilgrims
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a small group of religious seperatists
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William Bradford
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Pilgrim leader
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Mayflower
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Pilgrims ship
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Mayflower Compact
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agreement to the Plymouth Colony, had self government and majority rule
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Plymouth Colony
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place where pilgrims lived
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Democracy
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mayflower compact first form of democracy
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Puritans
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1629 a larger group than the pilgrims came
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John Winthrop
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Puritan leader
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Joint stock company
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raises capital by the purchase of stocks
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Massachusets Bay Colony
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joint stock company that puritans formed
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Salem
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1692 A place in Massachusetts were young grils where accused of being witches
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Witch Trials
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20 executions, 19 hung another crushed by rocks
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Individualism
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belied in the dignity and worth of each person
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New Englanc Colonies
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massachusetts, new hampshire, rhode island and connecticut. fishing, trading and shipbuilding
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Middle Colonies
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new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, delaware. grain grown on family sized farms
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Southern Colonies
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maryland, virginia, north carolina, south carolina and georgia. tobacco, indigo and rice grown
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Salutary Neglect
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England in 1st half of 18 century did not attempt to excercise economic or political control over colonies
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French and Indian War
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1763, England had a lot of debt from this war and levied taxes from colonies
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Stamp Act of 1763
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placed tax on newpapers and legal documents
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Townsend Acts
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required new taxes on tea, glass, paint and paper
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Boston Massacre
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Tension between English soldiers and American Colonists led to an incident by which five colonists where killed
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