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| an act of the Parliment of England under king Henry VIII declaring that he was "the only supreme head on earth of the church in England." |
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| the developement of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering. |
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| this guy is what the america's were named after |
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| was a puritan, spiritual advisor, and an important participant in the Antinomin controversy that shook the infantry massachusetts bay colony from 1636 to 1638. |
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| a killed manual worker who makes items that maybe functional or strictly decorative. |
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| the right or condition of self government,esp. in a particular sphere |
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| certain ethnic groups of central mexico particually those groups who spoke the nahuati language and who dominatemost of mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries |
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| in general term is geographical region is: isolated remote undeveloped and/or have difficulty to access |
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| the first officially appointed "protector of the indians" |
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| sailed around the southern most tip of Africa.(Portugese explorer) |
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| was one of the founding fathers of the united states. A noted polymath. A leading author, printer, political theorist, polotician, post master, scientist, and diplomat. He was most famous for discovering electricity. |
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| a policy or attitude of ignoring a situation instead of assuming responsibility for managing or improving it. |
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| a strait connecting the bering sea to the artic ocean |
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| one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, killing an estimating 75-200 million people and peaking in Europe in 1348-1350. |
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| it was the culmination of tensions in the american colonies that had been growing since Royal Troops first appeared in Massachusetts in october 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the townshend acts |
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| was a political protest by the sons of libertyin boston against the tax policy of the British government and the east india company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies |
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| was knighted for his services to sigismund bathory |
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| most maneuverable ship developed in the 15th century by the portugese |
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| the name used by parliamentarians for a supporter of king charles I and his son charles II during the english civil war the interregnum and the restoration |
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| the oldest neighborhood in massachusetts originally call mishawn by the native americans, located near the peninsula north of the charles river |
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Charter of privileges 1701 |
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| penn envisioned a colonythat permitted religious freedom the consent and participationof the governed as well as other laws pertaining to property rights |
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| in 1492 he sailed the ocean to america. he was also an european explorer |
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Coercive(intolerable) Acts
Boston Prot Bill
Massachusetts Govt. Act
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| The patriot name for a seires of punitive laws passed by the british parliment in 1774 relating to massachusetts after the boston tea act. the acts stripped massachusetts of self government and historic rights triggering outrage and resistance in the 13 colonies. these were key developements in the out break of the american revolution in 1775. |
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colonial reaction
john dickinson
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| they refused to submit to intolerable acts of 1774. the continental association was formed to boycott british goods and the colonies pledged to support massachusetts if they were occupied by the british. |
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| a wide spread exchange of animals plants, culture, human population.etc. between the american and afro-eurasian hemispheres |
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committees of correspondence 1772 |
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| where shadow governments organized by the patriot leaders of the 13 colonies on the eve of the american revolution |
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| is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the 13 colonies to declar and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776 |
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| determined the politics and social organizations of communities |
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| an independent entrepreneurialfrench-canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America |
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| the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficiant to determine the existance of god, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge |
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| inhabit the eastern part of the U.S live in mostly log houses |
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| of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and oppurtunities. |
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Elizabethan settlement 1559 |
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| made during the reign of the elizabethian response to the religious divisions created in england over the reigns of henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I |
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| leagal system that was employed mainly by the spanish colonization of the americas to regulate native americans labor and autonomy |
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was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in the late 17th and 18th century europe emphisizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
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First Continental Congress 1774 |
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| was a convention of delegates from the 12 colonies excluding georgia that met on september 5, 1774 at carpenters hall in pennsylvania. early in the revolution. it was called in response to the passage of the intolerable acts by the british parliament. |
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| was a christin revitalization movement that swept protestant europe and british american and especially the american colonies in the 1730's and 1740's. |
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| a national historic site of canada and the location of one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th century french fortress at Louisbourg on cape breton island, nova scotia |
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| spanish conquistador who conquered theinca empire |
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| inspired by john calvin in the 1530's and they werecalled the huguenots in the 1560's |
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| a ship called gaspee was burned due to the custom laws and stamp act that were placed upon the 13 colonies |
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| was a britiash army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the french at the battle if Quebec in canada in 1759 |
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| +the first president of the united states the commander-in-chief of the continental army during the American Revolutionary War and one of the founding fathers of the united states. |
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| an english angelican preacher who helped the great awakening in britain especially in the british north american colonies |
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| was the overthrow of king james II of england by a union of english parlimenatrians |
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| was the movement of 6 million african americans out of the rural |
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was a colonial american improved trail transiting the great appalachian walley from pennsylvania to north carolina and from there to georgia
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grenville ministry:
sugar act of 1764
curuency act 1764
quartering act of 1765
stamp act 1765
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| the grenville ministry wa named after george grenville who became the minister of britain |
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| the legal grant of land to settlers |
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| king of england from april 21,1509 til his death |
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| was an english sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century he made 2 attempts on behalf of english merchants to find a prospective northwest passage to cathay. |
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| first european documented to have crossed the mississippi river |
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| led an expidition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire |
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| was a form of debt bondage |
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| implemented his plan to establish the colony georgia |
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| invented the printing press in the 1450's and the first ever book printed was a latin language bible |
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| a principal figure in the developement of the system on christian theology later called calvinism |
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| one of the early english settlers of north america. he is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an exper crop in virginia and is known as the husband of pocahontas, daughter of cheif of the powhatan confederacy |
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| a business entity which is owned by share holders |
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| was a wealthy english puritan lawer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the massachusetts bay the first major settlement in new england after the plymouth colony |
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| was a preacher and theologian |
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| colonial governer of the new spain province new mexico and founder of various settlements |
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| was an explorer regarded as the first european to land on North America 500 years before christopher columbus |
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| a settlement in north carolina |
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| were english protestants who fled the continent duriong the reign of the roman catholic Queen Mary I and King Philip |
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| were escaped slaves in the west Indies, central America, South America and North America who formed independent colonies |
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| Professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in the 16th century known as the protestant reformation |
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| was an english settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century in New England situated around the presnt day cities of Salem and Boston |
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| was the first governing document of the Plymouth colony. Written by separatists, fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England |
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| an economic deoctrine based on the theory that a nation benefits by accumilating monetary reserves through a positive balance of trade. |
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| the region and cultural area in the americas extending approximately from central mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicargua and Northern Costa Rico |
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| was a war chief or sachem of the wampanoag indians and their leader in King Philips war, a widespread Native American uprising against the English colonists in NEw England. |
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| a position or set of opinions that are acceptable to many different people. |
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| the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Alantic Slave Trade |
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| famous for the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery |
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| were a series of laws that restricted the use of reign shipping for trade between England and the colonies |
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| was a 17th century colonial province of the seven United Netherlands that was located on the east coast of North America (now known as New York). |
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New Spain's Social Hierarchy |
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four structures of spain:
peninsulares wealthy and born in spain
creoles born in america but have spanish parents
mestizos: indian and spanish mix
indians: treated as conquered,not able to do much |
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| a member of a community of people who move from one place to another |
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| is the name given to a native american |
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| lord protector of the common welalth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
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| leader of the powhatan's; leader from 1618-1646 |
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The opposition
"no taxation without represenation"
sons of liberty
non-importation agreements |
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| is a form of political opposition to designated government, particularly in a west minister-based parlimentary system. |
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| a person who is in charge of others, especially workers |
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| a vast territory west of montreal covering the whole of the great lakes north and south and stratching as far into the north american continent as the french had explored. |
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| founded St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 firsy sucessful foothold in La Florida. |
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| was a soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of saint-Louis, advcenturer, trader, and founder of the french colony of louisiana of new france. |
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| the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth colony in present day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. |
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| was originally grazing land but became famous as the site of the battle of the plains of Abraham which took place on September 13, 1759. |
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| was an english colonial venture in north america 1620-1691. the first settlement of the plymouth colony wasn't new plymouth a location previously serveyed and named by captain john smith |
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| refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force with or without notice. |
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| he led the first european expidetion to florida |
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| was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of native american tribes primarily from the great lakes area, the illinois country, and ohio country who were dissatisfied with british post war policies in the great lakes region after the british victory in the french and indian war. |
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| a major 16th century european movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the roman catholic church |
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| the name of a virginia indian confederation of tribes |
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| were developed by puritans of New England from 1648-1675 in an effort to convert the local native american tribes to christianity |
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| in theology is the doctrine that all events have been willed by god |
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| a fortified base established by the spanish in areas under their control or expansion like present day italy, greese, north afirca and north america between the 16th and 17th centuries |
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Prince Henry the navigator |
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| portugal navigator who sailed the pasific |
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| was issued october 7, 1763 by king george III following great britainsacquisition of french territory in north america after the end of the french and indian war |
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| were a significant grouping of english protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries including but not limited to english colonists |
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| are members of a family of religious movements collectively known as the religious society of friends |
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| was an act of the parliment of great britain setting procedures of governance in the province of Quebec |
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| a period of expansion of the christan states of the pensula at the expense of the muslim states |
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| a histoical term used to refer to soldiers of the british army because of the red uniforms formerly worn by the majority of regiments |
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| an english writer. known for promoting the settlement of north america |
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| explored the great lakes region of the United States and Canada, mississippi river and gulf of mexico |
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| was an englis protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. began the colony of providence plantation, which provaded a refuge for religious minorities in 1636 |
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| the name given to the supporters of the parliment during the english civil war |
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| were a series of the hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial massachusetts, between feb.1692 and may 1693 |
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| the father of new france. he founded new france and quebec on july 3, 1608 |
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| were english pirates at the time of the elizabeth I of england. active from 1560-1600's in the 1560's john hawkins was leader of the sea dogs and mainly engaged in attacks on spanish shipping in the carribean. |
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"shots heard around the world" |
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| was when the first shot was fired in a battle in the revolution war that now one knew where it came from or from who |
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Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper |
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| was a prominent english politician during the interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II |
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| served during Queen Elizabeth |
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| well known for popularizing tobacco in england |
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| first perminant spanish settlement in florida |
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| period of starvation during the winter of 1609-1610 in which all but 60 out of 500 coloists died in jamestown |
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| was a slave rebellion that commenced on september 9, 1739 in the colony of south carolina |
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| is a reference with in slavery to a division of labor established on the plantation |
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| the capitol of the Aztecs |
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| was a prominent puritan leader founded the colony of connecticut after discenting with puritan leaders in massachusetts was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader universal christian suffrage |
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| were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the parliment of great britain relating to the british colonies in north america |
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| ended the american revolutionary war between great britain on one side and the united states and its allies on the other |
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| this treaty divided the newly discovered lands outside europe between portugol and spain on june 7, 1494 |
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| commander of the first explorers to sail directly from europe to india |
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| had hoped to conquer the mythical seven cities of gold |
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| was an english separatist leader in leiden holland and in plymouth colony he also signed the mayflower compact |
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| an english real estate entreprenuer, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the province of pennsylvania. the english north american colony and the future common wealth of pennsylvania |
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| was a british politition of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. became the youngest minister in 1783 at the age of 24 |
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