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Christoper Columbus |
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- Discovered new world
- Took boat from Spain to island in bahamas.
- Convinced people to invest in his new worl adventures bc of Gold.(there wasnt)
- Killed off a whole tribe of Indians.
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Encomienda System |
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- Indians became servants to colonists in return for converting to christianity.
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Joint Stock System |
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- Let people invest in the colonies and colonists letting people move and discover the new world.
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Virginia Company |
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- Stock company that was made to help get people to America
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Jamestown |
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- First permanent settlement in the new world
- 1607
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Captain John Smith |
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- "he who shall not work shall not eat"
- whipped the idle men into work
- Life was saved from indians by pocahontas
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John Rolfe
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- Married Pocahontas
- first interracial marriage
- He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export
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Pocahontas |
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- saved john smith's life
- married john rolfe
- first union of interracial couple
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- Moved out of england for religous freedom
- believe in predestination and covenant theology
- self examining
- very nervouse about future
- "city upon the hill"
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Plymouth colony |
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- colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691
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Pilgrims |
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- Puritans fleeing for religous freedom to plymouth
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Mayflower Compact
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- A contract made by the voyagers on the Mayflower agreeing that they would form a simple government where majority ruled.
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Massachusetes Bay Colony |
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- One of the first settlements in New England; established in 1630 and became a major Puritan colony. Became the state of Massachusetts, originally where Boston is located. It was a major trading center, and absorbed the Plymouth community
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John Winthrop
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- John Winthrop immigrated from the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to led a religious experiment. He once said, "we shall be a city on a hill."
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Virginia House of Burgesses
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- The House of Burgeses was the first representative assembly in the New World. The London Company authorized the settlers to summon an assembly, known as the House of Burgeses. A momentous precedent was thus feebly established, for this assemblage was the first of many miniature parliaments to sprout form the soil of America.
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Charter Colony
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- one of the three classes of colonial government established in British colonies in North America,
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Proprietary colony
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Royal Colony |
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the Calverts |
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- Lord Baltimore
- led to act of toleration
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Maryland Act of Toleration |
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| A legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland: Protestants invaded the Catholics in 1649 around Maryland: protected the Catholics religion from Protestant rage of sharing the land: Maryland became the #1 colony to shelter Catholics in the New World. |
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William Berkely
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| He was a British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-52. He showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676 ,which he ruthlessly suppressed. He had poor frontier defense. |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
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In 1676, Bacon, a young planter led a rebellion against people who were friendly to the Indians. In the process he torched Jamestown, Virginia and was murdered by Indians.
*Plantaions* |
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Indentured Servant
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An indentured servant was a worker, typically a laborer or tradesman, under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time
in exchange for transportation to new world, food |
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Headright system |
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| way to attract immigrants; gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrants way; mainly a system in the southern colonies. |
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Roger Williams
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He was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for challenging Puritan ideas. He later established Rhode Island and helped it to foster religious toleration.
"hippy town" |
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Anne Hutchinson |
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| A religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her ideas became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law. She was latter expelled, with her family and followers, and went and settled at Pocasset ( now Portsmouth, R.I.) |
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Thomas Hooker |
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| 1635; a Boston Puritan, brought a group of fellow Boston Puritans to newly founded Hartford, Connecticut. |
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Halfway Covenant
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| A Puritan church document; In 1662, the Halfway Covenant allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. |
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New England Confederation |
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| New England Confederation was a Union of four colonies consisting of the two Massachusetts colonies (The Bay colony and Plymouth colony) and the two Connecticut colonies (New Haven and scattered valley settlements) in 1643. The purpose of the confederation was to defend against enemies such as the Indians, French, Dutch, and prevent intercolonial problems that effected all four colonies. |
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King Philips War |
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| armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–76. The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip". emerged as the Puritan hero of the war; it was his company of Puritan rangers and Native American allies that finally hunted down and killed King Philip |
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William penn's holy expeirmnet
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Holy Experiment"; a Quaker; religous society of friends;
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| Members of the Religious Society of Friends; most know them as the Quakers. They believe in equality of all peoples and resist the military. They also believe that the religious authority is the decision of the individual (no outside influence.) Settled in Pennsylvania. |
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Mercantilism |
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| Favorable balance of trade |
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Navigation acts |
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| In the 1660's England restricted the colonies; They couldn't trade with other countries. The colonies were only allowed to trade with England. |
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Dominion of New England
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| In 1686, New England, in conjunction with New York and New Jersey, consolidated under the royal authority -- James II. Charters and self rule were revoked, and the king enforced mercantile laws. The new setup also made for more efficient administration of English Navigation Laws, as well as a better defense system. The Dominion ended in 1688 when James II was removed from the throne. |
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Triangular trade |
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| Triangular trade was a small, profitable trading route started by people in New England who would barter a product to get slaves in Africa, and then sell them to the West Indies in order to get the same cargo of goods that would help in repeating this process. This form of trading was used by New Englanders in conjunction with other countries in the 1750's. |
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Midddle passage
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| middle segment of the forced journey that slaves made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey. |
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