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33 Cards in this Set
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Glorious Revolution
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English Protestants rose up and removed James from the throne, sending him into permanent exile.
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Colonial Regions- New England, Middle, Chesapeake, Southern
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Distinct regions created as the Europeans moved into the New World
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Oliver Cromwell
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A skilled Puritan general who governed England as Lord Protector for almost a decade.
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Joint-stock Company
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Business organization that allowed people to purchase stock without fear of bankruptcy.
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Richard Hakluyt
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Visionary who promoted the New World, kept interest from dying down completely.
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Avarice
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Strong desire for wealth (greed)
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Captain John Smith
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Englishman who pushed the settlers of Virginia to work, keeping them alive.
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Sir John Rolfe
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Credited with the first successful English cultivation of tobacco
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Sir Edward Sandys
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Put into motion reforms in Virginia, including the House of Burgesses and a headright system.
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Virginia Company
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Formerly called the London Company, owned and settled Virginia.
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Headright
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Colonists who paid for their own transportation to the New World were given a 50-acre lot with only a small, yearly rent.
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House Of Burgesses
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Elective representative assembly set up by Sandys to attract more settlers.
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Sir George Calvert
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The king's secretary of state, who was stripped of office after revealing his Catholic beliefs.
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Lord Baltimore
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Son of Sir George Calvert, gained a charter for Maryland, and tried to create a colony with religious tolerance.
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Separatists
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Disbelievers of the Church of England, thinking it didn't keep enough of its Catholic origins (ex: Pilgrims).
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William Bradford
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Governor of Plymouth who encouraged the settlers, convincing them they could survive in America. Also wrote Of Plymouth Plantation.
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Mayflower Compact
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Written to preserve the Plymouth colony and combine the Pilgrims into one body.
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Squanto
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English-speaking Indian who taught the pilgrims about hunting and agriculture.
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Puritans
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Calvinist branch off that believed in predestination, but looked for signs to whether they were going to heaven or not. Settled many colonies in the New World.
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John Winthrop
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The Puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he set out with a group of men, who had signed the Cambridge Agreement.
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Antinomianism
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Religious ideas of Anne Hutchinson, based on her divine inspiration from God.
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Governor Nicolls
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Commander of the English force that took New Netherland from the Dutch. Also stayed to govern theDUtch, creating his own laws.
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Duke's Laws
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Written by Governor Nicolls, and guaranteed religious toleration and created local governments.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Last director-general of New Netherland when owned by the Dutch. He encouraged the settlers to resist the English, but none of them listened.
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George Fox
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Founder of the Quakers, God spoke to him in a time of despair, leading him to discover the "Inner Light"
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"Freemen"
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One who possess the rights of citizenship and is free of slavery.
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Roger Williams
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Preached extreme separatism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, eventually leading to his exile.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Threat to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she preached her ideas to Bostonian women, leading to her exile.
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William Penn
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A Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania, who tried to conduct his "Holy Experiment" in the colony.
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Charter of Liberties
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Frame of government establishing a one-house legislature for Pennsylvania.
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True and Absolute Proprietors of Carolina
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Group of 8 powerful proprietors who gained a charter for Carolina.
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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Created by John Locke and established a local aristocracy in Carolina.
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James Oglethorpe
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A British general and member of Parliament who created Georgia to get a hand up on the Spanish and to save the poor from debtors prison.
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