Colonial History Flashcards by Sharon Boyd | Brainscape

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First Permanent Settlement, 1565

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St. Augustine

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First English Colony, 1588

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Roanoke Island

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Virginia Colony, 1607

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Jamestown

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Massachusetts Colony, 1620

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Plymouth

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First Pilgrim At Plymouth Rock

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John Alden

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First Governor of Plymouth, Died During First Winter

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John Carver

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Plymouth Governor Elected 30 Times

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William Bradford

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Pilgrim Known as Little Shrimp

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Miles Standish

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First Legislature in Virginia, 1619

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House of Burgesses

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Dutch Settlement, 1624

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New netherlands

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New York City’s Original Name

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New Amsterdam

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Boston to New York Road Established 1672

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Boston Post Road

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Virginia Rebellion, 1676

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Colonial Capital of Virginia

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Williamsburg

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Virginia Namesake

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Queen Elizabeth 1 (The Virgin Queen)

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He Claimed Virginia for England

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Sir. Walter Raleigh

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He Purchased Manhattan from the Indians

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Peter Minuit

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Providence and RH Founder

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Roger Williams

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Dutch Governor of new Netherlands

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Maryland Founder

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Cecil Calvert (Second Lord Baltimore)

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Georgia Founder

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James Oglethorpe

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Fort Orange Location

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Albany

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Philadelphia Founder

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William Penn

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Colonial Silversmith and Engraver

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Paul Revere

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Puritan Husband of Maria Cotton

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Increase Mather

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Increase Mather’s Son

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Cotton Mather

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He Married Pocahontas

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John Rolfe

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Pocahontas’ Father

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Powhatan

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Man Pocahontas Saved

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John Smith

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Detroit Founder

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Antoine Cadillac

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Boston Tea Party Organizer

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Samuel Adams

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Colonial Seamstress

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Betsy Ross

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Boston Hall ‘The Cradle of Liberty”

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Faneuil Hall

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Pre-Revolutionary War Patriotic Societies

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Sons of Liberty

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New England Religious Revival, 1730-50

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Great Awakening

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Father of the Great Awakening

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Jonathan Edward

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First Constitution, Nov 15, 1777

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Articles of Confederation