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Chapter 3 Terms
AP US History terms for chapter 3 of The American Promise
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10th Grade
09/01/2010

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Captain John Smith
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adopted (most likely) into Indian society as chief of English tribe, leader of Jamestown, not actually ship captain, commoner
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Powhatan
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head chief of Algonquian confederacy
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Pocahontas
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daughter of Powhatan, participated in adoption ceremony, go-between for Indians and English
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John Rolfe
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married Pocahontas
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James I
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king of England in early 16th century, decided to colonize America
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William Berkeley
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dictatorial governor of Jamestown, didn't call elections of House of Burgesses for years, other impedimentary laws made reducing rights of free men, caused Bacon's Rebellion
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Nathaniel Bacon
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started Bacon's Rebellion, mad at government for reducing rights of non-landowning free men, died at end of rebellion
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Pueblo Indians
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revolted against Spanish missionaries
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Charles II
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king of England, chartered settlement in the Carolinas
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Virginia Company
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privately owned, capitalistic venture that never profited, started Chesapeake settlement
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colonization
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moving people and whatnot to a new place that's dependent on the mother country
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Jamestown
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first English settlement that lasted in the New World (Roanoke the actual first), major failure at first due to disease and gentlemen and poor leadership
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royal colony
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colony controlled directly by the royals
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House of Burgesses
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free men elected who they wanted to represent them in the HoB, first republic thinger
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tobacco
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major cash crop, grown in America, needed much labor
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headright system
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if passengers could pay their way to the new land, they would receive 50 acres of land; landowners got indentured servants' land
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indentured servants
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landowners paid their passage over and received 4-7 years service in return
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yeoman farmers
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small landowners with just enough to feed family and a few servants
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Navigation Acts
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colonists can only export to England
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mercantilism
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countries trying to get best value from trade, export more than import
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Bacon's Rebellion
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free non-landowning men rebelled against royals for new laws
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