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10/21/2009

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What were the three reasons that Richard Hakluyt, an English geographer, urged England to start a colony?
Definition

a)The colonies would provide a market for the English exports

b)The colonies would serve as a source for raw materials

c)the colonies would help to plant the protestant faith in the americs

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What were two reasons the English colonists went to the Americas?
Definition

a)lack of economic opportunity in England forced many to seek their fortunes abroad

b)escape religious prosecution

Term
                      finaced a colony on         Island, Virginia in 1585.
Definition

Sir Walter Raleigh,

Roanoke

Term
The colonists relied on the             for food however when they realized the settlers wanted their       they cut off their food supply.
Definition

Native Americans,

land

Term
What is a joint-stock company?
Definition
A buisness in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit
Term
Each investor recieved pieces of ownership in a company called      .  Investors split       and       divided      .
Definition

shares of stock,

any profits,

any losses

Term
Define charter.
Definition
A written contract issued by a goverment giving the holder the right to establish a colony
Term
In       the Virginia Company of London founded the first permanent English settlement named      .
Definition

1607,

Jamestown

Term
Define indentured servants.
Definition
A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for a passage to America.
Term
The       were a Separatist group who fled to Holland to escape harsh treatment.  They eventualy settled in      .
Definition

Pilgrims,

America

Term
In November of 1620, a ship called the       landed on a site named       on the Massachusetts coast.
Definition

Mayflower,

Plymouth (New England)

Term
The men on the Mayflower signed an agreement called the            .  In it the men vowed to      .
Definition

Mayflower Compact,

obey laws that were agreed upon for the good of the colony

Term
During the first winter     of the Pilgrims died.      negotiated a peace treaty between the Natice Americans and the Pilgrims.  He also showed them how to    ,    , and    .
Definition

half,

Squanto,

hunt, plant, fish

Term
What did the first Thanksgiving represent?
Definition
the peace that existed at the time, between the Native Americans and Pilgrims
Term
The Purtitans wanted to     or     the church's practices.
Definition

Reform,

Purify

Term
The leaving of thousands of Puritans from England is known as the        .
Definition
Great Migration
Term
Who was forced to leave Massachusetts because he disagreed with the New England Way?
Definition
Roger Williams
Term
Roger Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island.  What were two guarantees this colony offered?
Definition

1)religious freedom

2)Separation of church and state

Term
King Philips's War was a war between the     and the     over land.
Definition

Puritans,

Native Americans

Term

Two results of King Philip's War were:

1)Native Americans were forced to become    .

2)     expanded even farther into Native American lands.

Definition

laborers,

English Settlers

Term

Pretending to be    , girls falsely accused others of    .

 

 

Definition

bewitched,

witchcraft

Term
This experience howed how a society can create     for its problems.
Definition
scapegoats
Term
To attract more settlers, the Dutch West India Company sed the patroon system.  What is a patroon?
Definition
A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland
Term
What was a patroon rewarded?
Definition
large land grant, special privelages in hunting, finshing, and fur trading on his land
Term
     created a coloy named        where Quakers could live according to their beliefs.
Definition

William Penn,

Pennsylvania

Term
Pennsylvania welcomes different     and     groups.  Penn wanted the     to be treated fairly.
Definition

Religions,

ethnic,

Native Americans

Term
Why did James Oglethorpe find Georgia?
Definition
as a refuge for debtors
Term
How did the English government want to use the colony of Georgia?
Definition
as a military outpost against Florida to the south and French Louisiana to the West
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