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The Magna Carta stated that

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The rights of feudal nobles and that people had basic rights, that everyone was equal under the law

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England was a

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Parliamentary monarch

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English liberties inspired a sense of

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Personal initiative and entrepreneurial enterprise that spawned prosperity and empire

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Joint stock companies were the

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Most important organizational innovation in the area, first instruments of British colonization in America

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When Queen Elizabeth demised ,

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The throne feel to the Stuarts

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James IV became

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James I of England

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Charles I proves to be a more

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Stubborn leader and stubborn defender of absolute royal power

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King Charles I disbanded

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Parliament, levied taxes by decree, and allowed persecution of Puritans

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King Charles told Parliament to raise

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Taxes on defense of its kingdom

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King Charles I was convicted of

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Treason and executed

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Charles II did what?

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Avowed Catholicism, he must rule jointly with Parliament, had opponents murdered or improvised

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Because Charles II had a catholic son,

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Mary Stuart and William III took office, (Glorious Revolution which enchanted Britian’s power and the Parliament was free from monarchical control

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Bill of Rights?

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William and Mary gave up the royal right to suspend laws, appoint special courts, keep a standing army, or levy taxes except by Parliament’a consent.

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Glorious revolution also

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Made the church acknowledge the right of dissenters

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King James assigned the Virginia company on an

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Explicit religious mission, bring Christian religion to the Indians. However the pious intentions were overshadowed by the thought of profit.

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Where was Jamestown!

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Near a River with a northwest bend

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Why did they experience such hardships?

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Because the people were either unfamiliar with farming who gentlemen who hated manual labor. They wanted easy living

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In Virginia the Powhaten confederacy were

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Agricultural people who grew corn

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John Smith?

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Rare powers of leadership and self promotion, strict discipline and forced all labor

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A new charter replace the inactive counsel with

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And all-powerful Gov.

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Was the main source of revenue for Virginia

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ACCTobacco

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The boom of tobacco allowed

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Colonists to own their own land

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Sir Edmund Sandy introduced

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The head right policy, any Englishman who A share in the company and could get to Virginia could have 50 acres on arrival, and 50more for a servants he brought, rights of Englishmen,

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In 1622 the Indians

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Killed one fourth of the settlers

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In 1624 and English court dissolve the Virginian company and Virginia

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Became a royal colony

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Sir William Berkeley arrived as a royal governor

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And presided over the colonies growth for most of the next 35 years

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As a results of the flooding of settlers,

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The Indians had unwanted social and economic affects

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The largest planners brought up the most fertile soil along the coast thereby forcing

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Servants to become tenants or claim less fertile land inland

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In 1676 Nathaniel bacon defied Gov. Berkley’s authority by assuming

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Command of a group of frontier vigilantes.

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Rebellion was largely a battle of servants small farmers and even slaves

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against Virginia’s wealthiest planters and political leaders

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Berkeley oppose Bacons genocidal plan not because he like the Indians but

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He wanted to protect the lucrative monopoly over the deerskin trade

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For such severity the king denounce Berkeley as a fool

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And recalled him to England

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The results of Bacon’s rebellion were

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Peace treaties with the Indians and wealthy planters became more cooperative with the small farmers

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But the rebellion landless whites also convinced many large planters that they

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Bringing more African slaves

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Maryland was named after

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Henrietta Maria

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Maryland was the first

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Proprietary colony, it was owned by one person Lord Baltimore

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Sir George Calvert saw Maryland as a

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Refuge for Catholics

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Calvert recruited Catholic gentleman as landholders, and

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Protestants as indentured servants

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The Maryland government dividend into

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Gov. and counseling sitting apart

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Maryland was allowed to

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Make their own laws with the consent of the Freeman

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Maryland Prospered quickly because

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It’s ability to grow tobacco

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The NE were made up a middle-class families that

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Could pay their own way across the Atlantic

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Most males settlers were

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Small farmers merchants seamen or fishermen

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New England also attracted more

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Women

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Most NEs were motivated by

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Religious ideas

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The Puritans who arrived in America were on a

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Divine mission to create a model Christian society living according to God’s Commandments

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Puritans demanded that the Anglican Church get rid of

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Papist rituals

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The Separatists decided

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Church of England could not be fixed

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The pilgrims built dwellings on the site of

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And abandon Indian village

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Squanto show the pilgrims how to

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Grow corn and catch fish

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Plymouth colony had a land grant but no

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Charter of government from any English authority. They grew naturally out of the church government

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As the colony grew the Gen. Court became

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A body of representatives from various towns. (Church members)

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The Massachusetts Bay colony was intended to be

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A holy Commonwealth bound together by the harmonious worship of God

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The Puritans colonize the Massachusetts Bay were

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Congregationalists, Who formed self governing churches with membership limited to visible Saints- those could demonstrate receipt of the gift of God’s grace

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John Winthrop to use the colony

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A refuge Huge for persecuted Puritans

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John Winthrop took its charter with them to

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Ensure local control

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John Winthrop was a great leader because he

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Prized stability and order

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What was the great migration

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It is the transfer of the British colonistsaround the world over the next decade

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The transfer of the Massachusetts charter whereby an English trading Company evolved into

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A provincial government was unique venture in colonization

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Under the royal charter power rested with Massachusetts

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General court which elected the governor and the assistance

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General Court consisted of

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Shareholders call Freeman

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In 1634 Freeman turn themselves into a

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Representative body called the general court with two or three deputies to represent each town

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Over a period of 14 years the Massachusetts Bay Company a trading Corporation

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Evolved into the governing body of a holy Commonwealth

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Roger Williams believed that one salvation

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Depended upon God’s grace not to have churches

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And Williamsview a purity of the church required

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Separation of church and state and freedom for all matters of faith

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Roger Williams lived with

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The Narragansetts, where he established the town of Providence

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Many Indians either

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Resisted European culture and others depended on it

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To facilitate the acquisition of fur pelts from the Indians the French and Dutch

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Permanent trading outpost along the western frontier and establish” relations with the Indian people

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The English wanted to

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Foto pursue their God-given right to fishing and farm. they sought to exploit Indians rather than dealing with them

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The Indians and settlers Developed a flourishing trade

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Exchanging furs for manufactured goods and trinkets

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In Maine the Abenakis were

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Primarily hunters and gatherers dependent upon the natural offerings of the land and waters

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The Indians been able to forge a solid alliance they

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They would have better resist the encroachment of white settlers

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By the hundreds the Indians died like

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Rotten sheep

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What was the Pequot war caused by

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A peacock murdered a colonist and they took revenge by setting fire to a village

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The militia commander who ordered the massacre said that God

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Guided his actions

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Sassy us then

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Organized the survivors and attacked the English. The colonists and they Narrangansett allies killed hundreds of Pequots along the way.

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What did the treaty of Hartford say

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The Pequot nation would dissolve

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How was NC settled?

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By Virginia colonies who had drifted southward (Albemarle)

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The quickest way to raise capital and early years of South Carolina’s development was

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Trade with the Indians

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English merchants began to have a

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Prosperous trade with the Catawbas

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The dependent relationship with Europeans would prove

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Disastrous to the Indians traditional way of life

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Why did farmers prefer African slaves?

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They didn’t often run away

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More Indians were exported during than

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African slaves imported

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The trade in the enslaved Indians triggered bitter

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Struggles between tribes gave rise to colonial warfare and spawnef massive internal migration’s across the southern colonies

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By 1670 mostly Protestant Dutch

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Had the largest merchant fleet in the world in the highest standard of living

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Dutch Empire expanded to rapidly they cannot efficiently

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Manage their global possessions

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The Dutch East Indian company has hired an English captain

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Henry Hudson to explore America and hopes to find a northwest passage the spice Rich Indies

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New Netherlands was created as a

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Profit-making enterprise

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The Jews had come to seek

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Refuge from brazil

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The company disagreed with Stuyvesant, as

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Everyone has freedom of religion

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The Iroquois’s League fortune alliance so Strong that they outnumber the Dutch and later the English traders,

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They were forced to work with the Indians and exporting the lucrative beaver trade

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The willful search for furs and captains let Iroquois’s war parties to

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To range for what is today eastern North America

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The Iroquois maintain the shrew neutrality in the struggle between the two European powers which enable them to play

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The British off against the French while creating a thriving fur trade for themselves

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Not a single Colony was begun at the direct initiative of thr

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Crown

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Centralize control imposed by the marks of Spain and France eventually

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Hobbled innovation

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