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26 Cards in this Set
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John Smith |
Set rules for Jamestown |
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Powhatan |
North American tribes in Virginia |
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Virginia House of Burgesses |
First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America |
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John Winthrop |
Puritan Lawyer, Founded Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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Great Migration |
Movement of African-American slaves from the South to the West |
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Roger Williams |
Protestant theologian who was an early part of religious freedom and the separation of church and state |
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William Penn |
An English real estate entrepreneur and early Quaker. Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. Also supported democracy and religious freedom, and had a good relation with the Lenape Indians. |
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James OgleThorpe |
British General, Member of Parliament, and founded Georgia. Wanted to resettle the poor of Britain in the New World. |
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Triangular Trade |
A three piece trade between America, England, and Africa. African slaves went to America, American crops and goods went to England, and English manufactered goods went to Africa. |
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Ben Franklin |
A founding father, thought of as " the first American", major figure in the American Enlightenment. Inventor and scientist. |
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Great Awakening |
a religious movement among the American colonial protestants in the 1730s and 1740s` |
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John Peter Zenger |
A journalist in New York. Printed the New York Weekly Journal. Was a defendant in a landmark legal case. |
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Cortez |
Spanish conquistador that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire |
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Virginia Company |
a Joint Stock company that establishes settlements on the coast of North America |
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Starving Time |
A period of starvation in the winter of 1609-1610. 60-500 Colonists died. |
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Headright System |
Created in 1618 Jamestown, a headright was 1-1000 acres, was made to attract new settlers to the region and bring workers |
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Puritans |
Main leaders of emigration to New England in 1629 |
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City on a Hill |
John Winthrop's speech about Christian charity |
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Holy Commonwealth |
Puritism |
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King Philips War |
Conflict between the Native Americans of present-day New England and the English colonists and their native allies. English win when Philip was asassinated, the remaining Indians faced servitude and disease. |
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Anne Hutchinson |
A Puritan spiritual adviser, important in the Antinomian Controversy |
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Quakers |
The Society of Friends, had missionary efforts in the Americas, became involve in Pennsylvania politics. |
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Plantation/cash crops |
Tobacco, rice, indigo |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
An armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley |
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Manifest Destiny |
Inevitable expansion of the U.S |
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