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Land grants

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Head rights

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Work contract

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Indenture

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investors shared profits without sharing liabilities, provided a means whereby enterprises could obtain large monetary resources and remain free from the government control that accompanied government-sponsored projects.

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Joint stock companies

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King James I granted charters to two companies

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London company and Plymouth company

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the first permanent English settlement in the New World

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Jamestown

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At first, relations between the two peoples were friendly enough, but as the colonists began to clear more land, the Indian chief Wahunsonacock, or, as the Virginians called him

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Powhatan

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Her marriage to John Rolf made peace with the land

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Pocahontas

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enforced the kind of discipline necessary for the survival of Jamestown

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John smith

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The winter of 1609–10 was possibly the severest trial the Jamestown colonists ever faced. It was known as

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Starving time

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What percent died in the colony from starving time?

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90%

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The lifting of martial law and the granting of full rights to the colonists led to the formation of a representative assembly

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House of Burgesses

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was specifically one governed by a trade company

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Charter colony

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the king appointed a proprietor or proprietors

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proprietary

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controlled directly by the crown

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Royal colonies

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spurred the revival and reorganization of the defunct Plymouth Company into the Council for New England

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New England

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number of Christians

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Pilgrims

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a group of Anglicans who wanted to purify the state church from within by pushing for reforms that would rid England of Romanist influences and bring greater spiritual vitality to the nation

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Puritans

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though agreeing with many of the spiritual goals of the Puritans, were Independents. They believed that each local congregation should be independent of all other churches, free to worship and serve God without interference

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Separatist

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leading a group of thirty-five Pilgrims, sailed from Holland in the Speedwell.

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William Bradford

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leaders drew up a contract of government to guide them until they could reorganize under the Council for New England. The agreement, known as

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Mayflower compact

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fifty thousand settlers sailed from England to various colonies in America and the West Indies during the 1630s

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Great migration

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driving force behind the Puritan colony

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John withdrop

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At the heart of this goal of establishing a community of believ- ers was the Puritans’ belief in the

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established near Boston to train young men for the ministry

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Harvard college

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moved three congregations under his leadership into the Connecticut River Valley, setting up communities at Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor
Thomas hooker
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This document, which has been called the first written constitution in America, established a framework for representative self-govern- ment in Connecticut
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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arrived in Massachusetts and soon gained a reputation as a troublemaker for his novel ideas.
Roger Williams
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fled to Rhode Island.
Anne Hutchinson
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She began to teach that outward obedience to the Scriptures was unnecessary to demonstrate an inward relationship to God (a position called)
antinomianism
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No other segment of the colonies reflected the cultural diversity of British North America
Middle colonies
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a person who transported and settled fifty families in exchange for a large tract of land in the New World. The families thus transported then had to live on the patroon’s land and under his control, almost like feudal serfs on their lord’s manor.
Patroon system
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More than any other colony, Pennsylvania was the product of one man’s vision and labor
William Penn
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The third of the geographical divisions of the English colonies was the South. The colonies that made up this division were Vir- ginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia
Southern colonies
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The first group of settlers arrived in Maryland in 1634, led by Leonard and George Calvert. Their proprietor
Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore
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To give liberty to the Catholics and still attract Protestant settlers, the colony’s leaders established reli- gious toleration through the
Toleration Act of 1649
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the Earl of Shaftesbury
Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper
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reform-minded general, build a colony that would provide rehabilitation through opportu- nity and hard work
James Oglethorpe
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Explored the New York region
Henry Hutson
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Proprieter of Maryland
Cecilius Calvert
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Banned from the mass for believing in separation of church and state
Roger Williams
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Dutch governor who bought manhattan island for $24
Peter minuet
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Explored the New York region
Henry Hutson
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Proprieter of Maryland
Cecilius Calvert
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Banned from the mass for believing in separation of church and state
Roger Williams
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Dutch governor who bought manhattan island for $24
Peter minuet
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quaker who undertook the holy experiment
William penn
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reforming governor of Georgia
ogelthorpe
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proprietor of the southern Carolina settlement
sir Anthony Ashley cooper
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puritan minister who set up communities in Connecticut
Thomas hooker
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what new Sweden is now
deleware
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dutch system of settlement
patroon
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what did they grow in the Carolinas?
tabacco and rice
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led a small group of pilgrims to Plymouth
William bradford
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why did settlers move to America?
for freedom, land, and riches
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what section had the most children?
middle colonies

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