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Explorers & Thirteen Colonies
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8th Grade
09/19/2013

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Term
Colony
Definition
a country or area under full or partial control of another country
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Bartoleme de Las Casas
Definition
first residen Bishop of Chiapas (west indies)
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Alliance
Definition
when one country joins with another for the common good or goal
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Charter
Definition
a written grant
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House of Burgesses
Definition
first representative government
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Roanoke
Definition
-first english colony
-North Carolina
-collapsed because of food shortage and fighting between the natives and themselves
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Mayflower Compact
Definition
-legal contract in which the agreed to have fair laws to protect general goods
-one of the 1st attempts at self government
-signed on November 21, 1620 by 41 male passengers on the Mayflower
-promise to follow future rules and laws in colonies
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John Smith
Definition
the leader of Jamestown
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Precedent
Definition
examples for others to follow in the future
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Persecution
Definition
the mistreatment or punishment of certain people because of their beliefs
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Puritans
Definition
-wanted to change the church
-wanted to concentrate on worship, so they asked King Charles if they could go to America
-Massachusetts Bay 1630
-John Winthrop
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Religious Tolerance
Definition
-protestants began moving to Maryland in the 1640's
-Toleration Act of 1649: This Bill made it a crime to resist the religious rights of the Christians
-toleration did not stop all religious conflict
-government wanted to offer some religious freedom and protect rights of minority groups
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Town Meeting
Definition
settlers discussed and voted on many issues
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Anne Hutchinson
Definition
-publicly discussed religious ideas
-questioned the pastor
-kicked out of Massachusetts and started Providence (Rhode Island) where others were allowed to worship more freely
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Sabbath
Definition
-Holy day of rest
-taken VERY seriously
-on Sunday
-no one was allowed to play games or visit taverns to joke, talk, or drink alcohol
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Definition
-set of rules/principles the colony members had to live by
-you do not have to be a member of the church to vote
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Proprietary Colony
Definition
-king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment
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Royal Colony
Definition
-owned by the king
-makes rules for the colony
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Cash Crop
Definition
crops sold for money
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Slave Code
Definition
-during 1600's even Africans were enslaved
-first Africans were enslaved in Virginia in 1619
-in 1700 plantations depended on slave labor
-slavery in Africa had been a part of social and economic systems since ancient times
-slave trade grew over less than 400 years
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Mercantilism
Definition
a theory that trade will make you money
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Export
Definition
Exit goods
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Import
Definition
goods coming in
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Navigation Acts
Definition
said
-only British ships could transport imported and exported goods from the colonies
-only British citizens could trade with the colonies
-things such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton produced by the colonies could only be exported to British ports
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Triangular Trade
Definition
a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britian and Africa
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Legislature
Definition
branch of government
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