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florida discovering our past
chap 3 lesson 1 and 2
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History
8th Grade
09/18/2012

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Sir Francis Drake
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Was a Pirate who stole Spanish treasure on the high seas
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Queen Elizabeth sent him to North America in 1584
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Roanoke Island
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Present Day North Carolina
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Raleigh
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sent settlers to Roanoke in 1585 and 1587
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John White
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artist who drew pictures of Roanoke
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1585 Expedition
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colony failed
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Virginia Dare
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John White's daughter who gives birth to first child born in North Amercia
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John White
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Returns to Roanoke to discover desserted.
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charter
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a document that granted the right to form a colony
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King James 1 of England
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1606 grants charter to the Virginia Company of London
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King James 1
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1607
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ships enters Chesapeake Bay
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Jamestown
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named after King James 1
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Jamestown colonist
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found no riches
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jamestown colonist
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hardships including hunger and disease
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John Smith
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built ties with Powhatan people which h
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Powtan tribe
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gave food to Jamestown colonists
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1609
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Smith injured and went back to England.
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The winter of 1609-1610
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called the starving time
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Jamestown colonists
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grew tobacco using seeds from West Indies
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head right
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a land grant of 50 acres
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Virginia Company
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gives right to colonist the right to take part in own government
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burgess
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elected representative to an assembly
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House of Burgesses
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first legislature in North America
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Virginia Colony
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makes no money for shareholders of the Virginia Company
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1624
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King james 1 took charter away making Virginia a ROYAL colony
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royal colony
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directly under the control of the government in England
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Jamestown settlers
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come to America in search of wealth
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1534
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King Henry VIII, forms the Anglican Church
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People in Egland
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dissented, diagreeing with Anglican beliefs or practices
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Purtians
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protestants who wished to reform or join the Anglican church
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Separatists
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protestants who wanted to set up their who churches
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separatists
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were persecuted or mistreated for their beliefs in England
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Pilgram
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someone who undertakes a religious journey
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Pilgrams
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searching for religious freedom
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Pilgrams
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1620 land in Cape Cod but was suppose to land in Virginia
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Pilgrams
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sailed on the Mayflower
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The Mayflower Compact
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document that set up an organized, orderly government
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Squanto and Samoset
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befriended the colonist and help them grow food and fish
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1629 Massachusetts Bay Company
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A royal charter to establish a colony north of Plymouth.
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John Winthrop
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the colony of The Massachuetts Bay Company
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Great Migration
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is when over 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times in England
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Tomas Hooker
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In 1636 he led his congregation to the Connecticut River Valley and founded the town of Hartford
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Tomas Hooker
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In 1636 he led his congregation to the Connecticut River Valley and founded the town of Hartford
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Fundamental Orders of connecticut
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the first written constitution in America.
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Roger Williams
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Founded the colony of Rhode Island. a safe place for dissenters because it was the first place that had religous freedom.
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1675 Wampanoag leader Metacoment
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Wampanoag leader Metacoment wages war against the New Enland colonies. "King Philip's War" raged for 14 monthes. the coloists dedeated Metacomet. the war destroyed the power of the Native Americand in New England, colonial settlement expanded
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