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30 Cards in this Set
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A road that linked missions from San Diego to San Francisco
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El Camino Real
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Created by the Spanish king to govern the empire in America
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Council of the Indies
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Low-ranking Spanish nobles
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hidalgos
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Spanish army captain who explored South America's west coast
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Francisco Pizarro
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The northern route through North America to the Pacific Ocean
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Northwest Passage
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England's first permanent settlement in North America
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Jamestown colony
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Wanted to purify the Anglican Church of all Catholic elements
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Puritans
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Pools the money of many investors
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Joint-stock company
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Representatives in the first general assembly in Virginia
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Burgesses
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Published an attack on the Church, which started the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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Puritans who broke away from the Anglican Church
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Separatists
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Recieved a charter from King Charles to create a colony in New England
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Massachusetts Bay Company
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Person whose religious beliefs differ from those accepted by the majority
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Heretic
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Native American man who taught the Pilgrims about their new environment
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Squanto
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People who owned stock in the Massachusetts Bay Company
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Freemen
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Opposition to war or violence as means to settle disputes
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Pacificism
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When Parliament invited King Charles's son, Charles II, to take the throne
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Restoration
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Began when troops arrested several Puritan leaders in the English Parliament
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English Civil War
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Wealthy member on Parliament who founded Georgia
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James Oglethorpe
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Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
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William Penn
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Led the Spanish troops that conquered Cuba in 1511
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Diego Velázquez
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In 1608, Samuel de Chaplain founded Quebec, which became the capital of what new colony?
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New France
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The men who led expeditions to conquer the rest of what is today the country of Mexico and Central America
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Conquistadors
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The French explorer who discovered and mapped the St. Lawrence River
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Jaques Cartier
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Led the Spanish march into the Aztec Empire in 1519
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Hernán Cortés
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Privately owned ships licensed by the government to attack ships of other countries
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Privateers
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The colony of Maryland resulted from the aspirations of one man, George Calvert, also known as...
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Lord Baltimore
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Captain John Smith began trading with the local Native Americans called...
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Powhatan Confederacy
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The English did not try to colonize America for the next _____ years?
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80 Years
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At the beginning of the 1500s, much of England's land was divided into large ______
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Estates
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