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Unit 1 - Early Exploration and Colonization
The student will describe how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural interactions among Europeans, Africans, and American Indians. (USH.2)
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History
11th Grade
02/23/2014

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List the 3 regions settled by Europeans in North America.
Definition

New England

Mid-Atlantic

South

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Puritans
Definition
Settled the New England colonies, seeking religous freedom from their persecution in England
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direct democracy
Definition
Form of government used in the New England colonies practiced through town meetings
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Settled mostly by the English, Dutch, and Germans
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Middle-Atlantic colonies
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Region settled primarily for economic opportunites
Definition
South
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Cavaliers
Definition
English nobility who recieved large land grants in Virginia from the the King of England
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Indentured servants
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Poor Enlgish immigrants who agreed to work in the colonies in exchange for the payment of their passage to the new world
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Jamestown
Definition
First permanent settlement established by the Virginia Company of London as a business venture
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House of Burgesses
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Established in 1640, known today as the General Assembly of Virginia
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Lands settled mostly by the Spanish
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Caribbean, South America, Central America
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France
Definition
Country that did not engage in widespread colonization of North America
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Need for slavery
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Shortage of workers in the Southern colonies
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Had a cooperative, or friendly, relationship with the Native Americans
Definition
French
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The year the first slaves were brought to Jamestown, Va
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1619
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Where most slaves worked in the south
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Tobacco plantations
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Cash crop
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crop grown for sole purpose of making money
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Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
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Cash crops
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Exploration and Colonization
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Resulted in a redistribution of the world's population
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English and Spanish
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2 countries that forced American Indians from their lands
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