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Chapter 3
Planting Coloniesin North America
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11th Grade
04/27/2006

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Onate
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*Led people to New Mexico to mine gold and convert Indians to Christianity.
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Santa Fe
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*1609. *Founded by Don Pedro de Peralta. *Capital of New Mexico.
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Jesuits
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*1625. *Said Indians could practice Christianity and Indian religions together.
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Joint-stock Companies
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*Raised capital to fund expeditions by selling shares. *Virinia Company.
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Jamestown
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*Named after the king. *1607, Virginia Company sent ship to Chesapeake Bay and a hundred men built the fort. *First permanent english settlement in North America.
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Powhatan
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*Powerful leader of a confederacy of Algonquian tribes. *Decide to starve colonists when Smith began to plunder food, but warfare and disease from the English wore him down. *Daughter was Pocahontas.
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Tobacco
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*Provided the Virginia colonists with the "merchantable commodity." *Rolfe created a hybrid. *Exhausted the soil leading to more expansion
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House of Burgesses
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*1619. *Included representatives of Virginia's boroughs.
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Maryland
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*Royally granted to the Calvert family who were Catholic and important to the manarchy. *First a proprietory colony. *Only colony with a substantial Catholic minority.
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Indentured Servents
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*At least three-quarter of the English migrants to the Chesapeake. *IN exchange for the cost of their transportation to the New World, men and women contracted to labor for a master for a fixed term. *Majority were young, unskilled males. Others were a few women and children, and a minority were convicts or vagabonds.
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1619
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*First slave ship arrives. *House of Burgesses.
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Puritans
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*Followers of John Calvin. *Emphasized values such as enterprise and hard work and appealed especially to groups responsible for rapic economic and social transformation of England. *Vocal critics of chang, condemn decline of traditional rural community. *Revive communities through church. *Set social and political in religious. *King Charles I launched crusade against Puritans, so the moved.
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John Winthrop
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*Puritan leader and first governor of the colony. *Believed in "city on a hill" or model of reform for England.
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Separatists
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*Pilgrims who believed the Anglican establishment so corrupt that they must establish their own independent church. *Sailed from Plymouth in Sep. 1620 on the Mayflower.
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Mayflower Compact
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*Hired men disliked Pilgrim authority. *All men of the expedition signd sayin the did "covenant and combine together into a civil body politic. *1620, was first document of self-government in NOrth America.
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Harvard College
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*Founded in 1636 to educate men to become ministers.
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Rowger Williams
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*Puritan dissenter in Salem. *Believed in religious toleration and the separation of church and state and no right to Indian lands. *He was banished and founded Providence, RI.
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Thomas Hooker
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*Disagreed with Puritan leaders over the extent of their authority and believed that suffrage should not be restricted to male church members. *Founded Hartford.
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Anne Hutchinson
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*Led religious discussion groups that critcized various Boston ministers for a lack of piety. *Disliked emphasis on good works because it made people think they could earn their way to heaven. *Excommunicated and banished and settled to Providence and made a new community.
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Carolina
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*Established by the "Restoration" charters.
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New Amsterdam
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*Present day New York City. *Located in the Dutch New Netherland. *Allied with the Iroquois. *Lost to English in the Anglo-Dutch wars.
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William Penn
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*Part of present Pennsylvania was given to him in a royal charter. *Wrote Frame of Government that guaranteed religious freedom, civil liberties, and elected representation. *Refused settlement until lands negotiated.
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Quakers
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*Society of Friends. *A dissenting sect that were committed to religious toleration and pacifism.
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King Philip's War
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*Indian revolt in New England in 1675. *Conflict with the Wampanoags. *First allies and then forced to give up land. *Disaster for Indians.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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*Nathaniel Bacon lead violent raids in 1675, including the indiscriminate murder of Indians. *Infuriated by governor Berkeley's attemps to stop them, they pillaged and burned Jamestown in 1676.
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