Final 150 part1 Flashcards
Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?
To settle new land
And to spread Christianity
Virginia Company
Joint stock company that settled Jamestown
Jamestown
The first successful English colony in North America
John Smith
Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author
Pocahontas
Relations with the Powhatan improved after a colonist, John Rolfe married the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas
John Rolfe
He was the one who married the Chiefs’s daughter, Pocahontas
Tobacco
It took a great deal of labor to plant, tend, and harvest the tobacco crop on which the colony depended
Bacon’s Rebellion
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Plymouth Colony
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Pilgrims
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Mayflower
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Mayflower Compact
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William Bradford
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Squanto and Samoset
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Puritans
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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John Winthrop
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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
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Salem Witch Trials
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William Penn
He was a wealthy English Quaker and established Pennsylvania
Quakers
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Pacifists
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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony
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First Great Awakening
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Triangular Trade
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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
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John Peter Zenger Trial
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Cause of French and Indian War
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Proclamation of 1763
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The Sugar Act
Lowered the tax on the molasses the colonists imported
The Stamp Act
This law taxed almost all printed materials
The Boston Massacre
A slaughter of innocent American by bloodthirsty redcoats
The Boston Tea Party
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
The laws that closed down Boston harbor from the cause of the Boston tea party
Patrick Henry
A member of the Virginia house of burgesses