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MA Chapter 3
Making America chapter 3
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History
9th Grade
11/14/2010

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Roanoke Island was colonized in the year ____________ and is located in _____________
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1585 ... Virginia
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Jamestown was colonized in the year ___________ and is located in ___________
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1607 ... Virginia
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Pilgrims found Plymouth Plantations in the year _________ in ____________
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1620 ... Massachusetts
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Puritans founded ______________ in the year ___
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Massachusetts Bay Colony ... 1630
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Bacon's Rebellion occurred in __________ in the year _________
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Virginia .... 1676
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King Philip's War occurred in __________ in the year ______
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New England ... 1675
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The Salem Witch Trials occurred in ________________ in the year _________
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Salem, Massachusetts ... 1692
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Church of England
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The Protestant church that King Henry VIII established as England's official church in the sixteenth century; also known as the Anglican church
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Puritans
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English Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
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Parliament
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The lawmaking branch of the English government, composed of the House of Lords, representing English nobility, and the House of Commons, an elected body of untitled English citizens.
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absolutism
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The exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
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Glorious Revolution
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The events in 1688 that resulted in the removal of James II from the throne of England and the crowning of the Protestant monarchs William and Mary.
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entrepreneur
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A person who organizes and manages a business enterprise that involves risk and requires initiative
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joint-stock company
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A business financed through the sale of shares of stock to investors, who share both the profits and the losses from a risky venture
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proprietary colonies
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Colonies owned by an individual or group of individuals who determined how settlement would take place and the rules and laws under which the colonists would live
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royal colonies
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Colonies under the direct authority of the king or queen
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charter
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An official document in which a sovereign or governing body grants rights or privileges
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Jamestown
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The first permanent English settlement in America; it was founded in Virginia in 1607

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Captain John Smith
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English colonist at Jamestown who imposed military discipline when disease and famine threatened the settlement
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headright system
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Virginia Company program under which colonists who paid their own expenses or the expenses of another person got 50 acres of land per settler in return
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House of Burgesses
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The representative lawmaking body of Virginia; it was established bu the Virginia Company in 1618
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tenant farmer
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A person who farms land owned by someone else and pays rent either in cash or by giving up a share of the crops
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commission
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Authorization to carry out a particular task or duty
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vigilantes
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People who take the law into their own hands
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Bacon's Rebellion
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A revolt of backcountry farmers against the colonial government of Virginia; it was triggered by inland taxes and strife with the Indians, and collapsed after the death of Nathaniel bacon.

 

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indentured servant
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Someone obligated to compulsory service for a fixed period of time, usually from four to seven years, most often agreed to in exchange for passage to the colonies.  A labor contract called an indenture spelled out the terms of the agreement.
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Separatists
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English Protestants who chose to leave the Church of England because they believed it was corrupt
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Pilgrims
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A small group of Separatists who left England in search of religious freedom and sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620. (route #3)

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William Bradford
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Pilgrim leaders who organized the Mayflower journey and became governor of the Plymouth colony
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Mayflower Compact
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An agreement drafted in 1620, when the Pilgrims reached Cape Cod, granting political rights to all male colonists willing to abide by the colony's laws
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Squanto
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A Patuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to survive in America and acted as a translator
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John Winthrop
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English Puritan who was one of the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony and served as its first governor
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Great Migration
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The movement of Puritans from England to America in the 1630s; it was caused by political conflict in England and by the fear of persecution.
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saint
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A person who was granted full membership in a Puritan church after testifying to an experience of "saving faith"
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hierarchy
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A system in which people or things are ranked one above another
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Quakers
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Members of the Religious Society of Friends, a Protestant sect; Quakers believe in the equality of men and women, refuse to bear arms, and seek divine inspiration from the "inner light" within each individual.
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heretic
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A person who publicly dissents from an officially accepted doctrine or religion
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Roger Williams
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A minister who was banished from Massachusetts for criticizing the Puritan leaders of the colony; in 1636 he founded Providence, a community based on religious freedom.  (Providence is in Rhode Island)
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Anne Hutchinson
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A religious leader who was banished from Massachusetts in 1637 because of her heretical beliefs
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Pequots
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An American Indian people inhabiting eastern Connecticut; when the Pequots resisted colonial expansion, the Massachusetts bay colonists declared war on them
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King Philip's War
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War between settlers and Indians in New England from 1675 through 1676; it ended after the Wampanoag chief Metacomet was killed.
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Half-Way Covenant
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An agreement that gave partial membership in Puritan churches to the children of church members even if they had not had a "saving faith" experience
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property requirements
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The limitation of voting rights to people who owned certain kinds of property
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Presbyterians
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Members of a Calvinist sect that eventually became the established church of Scotland; in the seventeenth century, it was sometimes opposed by Scotland;s rulers.
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suffrage
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The right to vote
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William Penn
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English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681
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Quaker meeting
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A gathering of Quakers for reflection and silent or oral prayer
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yeoman farmers
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Owners of small landholdings who were entitled to vote
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naval stores
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Products such as timber, tar, resin, pitch, and turpentine, used in the building of wooden ships.
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James Oglethorpe
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Englishman who established the colony of Georgia as an asylum for debtors
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