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| A group of settlers that arrived in the New England colonies that wanted to "purify" the English monarchy and the English church. |
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| Meetings that were held in the Northeast Colonies and where major government decisions were made. |
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| A type of colony that is directly ruled by a monarchy. |
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| Slaves were packed densly into ships and were enroute to the West Indes from Africa. |
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| A war waged between Metacom and the Puritans in the Northeast colonies that resulted in the Natives being wiped out of the region. |
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| This was the first established colony in the New World. The colony went through many hardships including starvation, Native American attacks and disease. |
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| An economic system where countries are in a competition to secure as much gold, silver and land as possible. More land and resources = more power. |
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| A rebellion in Jamestown that started because the Virginia governer refused to let settlers move westward into Native territory. |
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| The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence. |
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| A group of Christian settlers who lived in the Middle Colonies, such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey, who encouraged religious tolerance and free will. |
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| A famous philospher who inspired Thomas Jefferson and who once wrote that people have inalienable rights such as "life, liberty and property." |
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| Treaty, signed in Paris, that ended the American Revolution. |
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| A form of partial church membership created in 1662 where if your parents or grandparents were members of the Puritan Church, you had political rights and were members of the church. |
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| A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged the Thirteen Colonies to revolt against England. |
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| The father of Pocahontas who led an attack on the Jamestown colonists after an uneasy, tense truce. |
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| A religous movement that swept through the colonies in the 1700's that stressed that people were too focused on worldly things and not enough on their spirituality. Also that God was "an angry judge" and that "people were sinners." |
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| The transatlantic slave trade that involved Europe, the Americas and Africa. |
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| One who worked on a contract without pay in order to pay off loans or debts. |
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| A war fought between the British and French over control of North America. |
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| A British general who scored many early victories against the American colonists, but ultimately surrenedered at Yorktown to end the American Revolution. |
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| Treaty, signed in Paris, that ended the French and Indian War. |
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