Colonial America (1607-1650) Flashcards

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Puritans

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group of religious dissidents who came to the New World so they would have a location to establish a “purer” church than the one that existed in England

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Separatists

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religious group that opposed the Church of England; this group first went to Holland, and then some went on to the Americas

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indentured servants

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individuals who exchanged compulsory service for free passage to the American colonies

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Huguenot

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French Protestants who believed in Calvininsim by the 1630s. Some ended up settling in America but the French believed they would disrupt the colonies

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Jesuit

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Missionaries who were in Flordia, New Mexico, and Paraguay within the French territories of America. They organized with order and military precision.

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Franciscan

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missionaries who established settlements in the Southwestern US in the late 1500s; at their missions, Christian conversion was encouraged, however, Natives were also used as slaves. Rebellions against the missions began in 1598.

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London Company

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In 1603, King James I gave the London Company a charter to settle Virginia. In April 1607, the first settlers arrived at Jamestown.

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