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Joint-stock company

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A company in which investors buy stock in The company in return for a share of its future profits

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Charter

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Documents granting the right to organize settlements in an area

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Head right

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A 50-acre of land given to colonial settlers to pay their own way

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Burgesses

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Elected to an assembly

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Sir Francis Drake

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Adventurer, who raided Spanish ships (like a pirate). King Philip thought that Queen Elizabeth she punish him for his raids, but instead she honored Drake with knighthood.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Founded Roanoke Island with Queen Elizabeth’s permission

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Capt. John Smith

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The leader to Jamestown to help them survive the first two years

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Pocahontas

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Daughter of chief Powhatan , Married to John Rolfe

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House of Burgesses

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Jamestown’s government

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Roanoke

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Island were the first settlers (100 men) settled, but they had a difficult winter so they returned, then Raleigh sent 91 men, 17 women, and 9 children. but when he went back to England for supplies he came back and everybody was gone.

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Jamestown

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Joint stock company settled on the James River in their new settlement Jamestown brought to their. king. 144 settlers first went. John Smith led them

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Dissent

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It is agreement with your opposition to an opinion

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Puritan

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Protestants who during the 1600s wanted to reform the Anglican church

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Pilgrim

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Separatist who journey to the colonies during the 1600s for religious purposes.

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Mayflower Compact

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A formal document written in 1620 that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

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Separatists

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Protestants who during the 1600s wanted to leave the Anglican church in order to found their own churches

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

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The first written plan for a government in America

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William Bradford

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The leader of Plymouth

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Squanto

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Native Americans who befriended Plymouth. They showed the, how to plant corn, beans, and pumpkins and where to hunt and fish. Without their help the Pilgrims might not have survived or make peace with the Wampanaug people who lived in the area

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John Winthrop

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Massachusetts Bay colony governor. He led 900 men women and children

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Rodger Williams

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Leader of Rhode Island who believed that people should not be persecuted for their religious practices that the government should not force people to worship in a certain way

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Plymouth

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A settlement in Massachusetts.William Bradford was their leader.

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Policy

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Plan of action

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Patroon

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The landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled like a king over large areas of land.

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Proprietary Colony

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A colony run by individuals or groups of land was granted

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Pacifist

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A person who opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

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Duke of York

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Was given the colony new Netherlands to buy King Charles the second but renamed it New York

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William Penn

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He is the founder of Pennsylvania,he was a Quaker

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Quaker

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A society of friends, believe that everyone was equal. People could follow their own “inner light”to salvation. They were also Pacifists

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Indentured servant

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Labor who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

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Tenant farmer

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A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops

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Constitution

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A list of fundamental laws to support the government

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Mission

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Religious settlement

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Debtor

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A person or country that owes money

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Sir George Calvert, lord Baltimore

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Maryland arose from their dream

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Nathaniel Bacon

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A young planter in Western Virginia who oppose the colonial government because it was dumb and or controlled by easterners

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James Oglethorpe

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Founder of Georgia

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Louis Joliet

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A Frenchman who was a fur trader that explored the Mississippi River by canoe

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Jacques Marquette

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A Frenchman who was a priest who explore the Mississippi River by canoe

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René-Robert Cavelier

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Followed the Mississippi River all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico

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Sieur de La Salle

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He followed the Mississippi River all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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In 1676 bacon but attacks on Native American villages. His army also March to Jamestown and drove Berkeley into exile. Only Bacons sudden-death kept him from governing Virginia. England then recalled Berkeley and some troops restore order Bacon’s rebellion showed sellers would not be limited to the coast

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New England Colonies and their founders and which ones were founded for religious purposes

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  • New Hampshire ~ John Mason
  • Massachusetts ~ John Winthrop and William Bradford
  • Connecticut ~ Thomas Hooker
  • Rhode Island ~ Rodger Williams
  • = founded for religious purposes
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Middle Colonies and their founders and which ones were founded for religious purposes

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New York ~ Dutch Settlers
*Pennsylvania ~ William Penn
New Jersey ~ John Berkeley and George Carteret
Delaware ~ Swedish Settlers

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Southern Colonies and their founders and which ones were founded for religious purposes

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*Georgia ~ James Oglethorpe
*Maryland ~ Cecilius Calvert
North Carolina ~ group of 8 aristocrats
South Carolina ~ group of 8 aristocrats
Virginia ~ John Smith

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What was the last English colony to be made?

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Georgia; founded for debtors

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What were the earliest constitutions of the colonies?

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut and the Mayflower Compact

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What type of hardships did the colonies face

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Weather, deaths, diseases, lack of good water, Native Americans

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Why was the Mew Netherlands important

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It had an excellent harbor and a thriving river trade. It also had a diverse population.

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