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| also known as Lord Baltimore, founded the colony of Maryland |
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| was comprised of all the freemen under the Massachusetts Bay Company |
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| people who wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church of all Catholic elements |
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| immigrated to America to escape economic hardship and religious persecutions |
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| Native American who taught the Pilgrims about their environment |
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| the town of Portsmouth after being banished from Massachusetts for saying she spoke to God |
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| were the representatives in the first general assembly of the Virginia colony |
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| colony founded by colonists from England in 1607 and named it in honor of their king |
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| were a group of Puritans who began separating from the Anglican Church to form their own congregations |
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| German monk who published an attack on the Catholic Church, beginning the Protestant reformation |
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| this crop saved the colony of Jamestown because they were able to produce and sell it to England |
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| was a stockholder in the Massachusetts Bay Company and became a governor of New England |
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| a colony that is run by a governor that was appointed by the king |
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| was a period in time when large numbers of people left England due to worsening economic conditions |
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| privately owned ships licensed by the government to attack the merchant ships of other countries |
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| settlers who publicly uttered ideas contrary to accepted Puritan beliefs |
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| Fundamental Order of Connecticut |
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| this constitution allowed all adult men, not just the church members, to vote and serve in government |
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| young minister who arrived in the Plymouth Colony and declared that the land belonged to the Native Americans and that the king had no right to give it away |
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| an economic change in England in which landowners converted agricultural estates into sheep farms and evicted the tenant farmers |
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| minister who believed that everyone should be allowed to vote, not just church members |
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| this war began after three Wampanoag Indians were arrested, tired, and executed for a murder |
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| Sir Humphrey Gilbert reached this island while scouting the American coastline |
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| town founded by Anne Hutchinson and a few of her followers |
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| English king who asked the pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and later began the Anglican Church |
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| a colony that is owned by an individual |
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| people who owned stock in the Massachusetts Bay Company |
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| colonist who experimented with tobacco seeds and developed a new method for curing tobacco |
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| a system of land rights that granted settlers land in exchange for settling in Virginia |
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| a form of business organization in which many investors pool funds to raise large amounts of money for large projects |
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| this town was founded by Roger Williams and was in place where the government had no authority in religious matters |
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| local Native American group that began trading food for goods with Captain John Smith |
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| area of land where the Reverend Thomas Hooker moved his congregation after asking permission from the General Court of Massachusetts |
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| drafted a harsh code of laws that imposed the discipline necessary to save the Jamestown colony |
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