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John Smith
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established first permanent English settlement.
Leader of Virginia Colony from 1608 to 1609 he caused men and women to emigrate to the new world. |
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Jamestown
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located in Virginia. It was the first permanent English settlement established on May 1604.
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Joint Stock Company
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A type of business entity. used in the establishment of Jamestown.
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Indentured servant
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a laborer or tradesman under contract to an employed for a fixed time. Man immigrants arrived in the colonies as indentured servants. Did most of the work for the early colonies.
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Puritans
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A grouping of protestants in the 16th and 7th century. they made new towns in the colonies and made government more religiously strict.
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John Winthrop
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Founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. he led a group of puritans there in 1630. Governor from 1639 to 1648
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King Philips war
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an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants and southern new englanders. Took place between 1675-1676
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The Headright system
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legal grant of land to settlers. used to expand the colonies.
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The Calverts
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First people in Maryland also founded Maryland in 1643
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Bacon's rebellion
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An uprising in 1676 in the Virinia Colonies. Due mainly to Native American raids.
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William Penn
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An English real estate entrepreneur. known for good relations with the Lenape Indians. wanted colonies to be united.
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Quakers
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Quakers established colony in lower Delaware in 1661.
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mercantilism
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a form of economic nationalism. Caused many wars in Europe. Started in the 1500's
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Navigation acts
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a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping between england and its colonies in 1707.
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Anne Hutchinson
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A pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Also an unauthorized minister of a dissident church. born in 1591 and dying in 1643
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John Coode's rebellion
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A rebellion which overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689.
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