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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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constitution

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list of a government’s fundamental laws

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Dutch colony

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New Netherland; only Dutch colony surrounded by a BUNCH of English colonies

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Pilgrims’ arrival

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first arrived in Cape Cod Bay

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Roanoke

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settlers vanished in 1590; never seen again

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meaning of Pennsylvania

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Penn’s Woods

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House of Burgesses

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Jamestown’s legislative body

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Lord John Berkeley

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New Jersey proprietor

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Plymouth

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Pilgrim colony

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Thomas Hooker

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founded Hartford, Connecticut

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William Berkeley

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Virginia’s governor

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Jamestown crop

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tobacco

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charter

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document giving holder right to settle a colony

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Separatists

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Protestants who left Anglican Church to start their own

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Massachusetts Bay Company

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granted charter to start colony north of Plymouth

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pacifists

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refuse to fight in wars; Quakers

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why colonies were founded

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religious freedom; profit from trade; profit from selling land; safe home for debtors

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last colony settled

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Georgia

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meaning of Pocahontas

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“playful one”

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principles in Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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representative/democratic government

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ESSAY: why English objected to Quakers

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  • pacifist views
  • follow “inner light” rather than laws/rules of govt. or religion
  • belief in everyone’s equality

7th Social Studies (15 decks)

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