american colonies Flashcards

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Massachusetts Plymouth

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escape religious persecution, establish Puritan commonwealth, william bradford, mayflower compact, joint stock company, royal colony, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding, triangular trade, rum, whaling

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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escape religious persecution, establish Puritan commonwealth, John Winthrop, joint stock company, royal colony, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding triangular trade, rum, whaling

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New Hampshire Exeter

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profit from trade and fishing, escape religious persecution, bending Wentworth, John Wentworth, John Wheelwright, proprietary colony, joint stock company, royal colony, trade, fishing

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Connecticut

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establish a Puritan settlement, establish a fur trade route, Thomas Hooker, self governing, corporate, triangular trade

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Rhode Island

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escape religious intolerance of Massachusetts Bay, Roger Williams, self-governing, joint stock company, corporate, shipping, livestock, agriculture

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New York

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expansion, trade, Peter Stuyvesant, James Duke of York, Richard Nicolls, Thomas Dongan, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, wheat, milling, lumbar, furs, sugar refining, distilling, ship building, trade

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Delaware

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trade, Johan prints, Johan Rising, William Penn, proprietary colony, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, trade, farming

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New Jersey

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expansion, trading post, refuge for Quakers from England, John Berkeley, John Carteret, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, trade, farming

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Pennsylvania

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Swedish expansion, establish a Quaker colony, religious tolerance, William Penn, part of neighboring Swedish Dutch and English colonies, proprietary colony, royal colony, proprietary colony, trade, farming

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Virginia

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search for gold, English outpost against Spain, John Smith, John Rolfe, Thomas Dale, joint stock company, Royal colony, tobacco

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Maryland

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establish a Catholic settlement, escape religious persecution, Cecillius Calvert (Lord Baltimore), proprietary colony, royal colony, proprietary colony, tobacco

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North Carolina

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land wealth, refuge for small farmers, strength and English possessions in the Americas, William Berkeley, Anthony Ashley – Cooper, John Locke, proprietary colony, royal colony, ship supplies, rice, indigo, tobacco

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South Carolina

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land wealth, refuge for small farmers, strength and English possessions in the Americas, William Berkeley, Anthony Ashley – Cooper, John Locke, proprietary colony, royal colony, ship supplies, rice, indigo, tobacco

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Georgia

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settlement for debtors, buffer Carolinas from Spanish Florida, James Oglethorpe, proprietary colony, royal colony, rice, indigo, ship supplies

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