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First tobacco plantation

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Started by John Rolf in Jamestown

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Why was tobacco so profitable?

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Tobacco was addictive, in high demand in England, supply could not keep up with demand

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Why did King James not like tobacco?

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IIt was bad for your health, called it the stinking weed

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Indentured Servants

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Usually white Europeans, who bought passage to the new world by becoming servants for a set amount of time

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Slaves

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Usually Africans or Indians captured and sold into forced labor. Sometimes able to buy back their freedom

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Similarities between Servants and Slaves

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Same living quarters, work, schedule, and both could be bought and sold.

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Why was there an increase in slave labor?

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There was always a shortage of labor, indentured servants were freed and Indians died quickly.

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Openchancanough

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Brother of Powhatan and became chief when he died. Started wars with the Europeans over encroaching on Indian land

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Royal Control 1624

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After war with the Indians king James took control of Virginia, appointed royal governor

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Triangle Trade

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Textiles rum and manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to colonies, sugar tobacco and cotton from colonies to Europe

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New Netherlands / New Amsterdam

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granted charter and settled in Manhattan on land purchased from the Indians in 1614 as a colony based on trade

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Who Settled Plymouth Bay?

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originally by Champlane, calling it New France, then by the English seperatists

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Plymouth Bay

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Seperatist got blown off track on the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts and started the Mayflower Compact as their legal document

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William Bradford

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Governor of Plymouth Bay and leader of the serperatists

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Plymouth Bay and Wompanoag Indians

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Friendly with some who spoke English, helped pilgrims plant, hunt, and fish.

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Squanto and Samoset

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Indians who spoke English with the pilgrims, Squanto had been a slave in Europe.

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First Thanksgiving

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Unusually large harvest followed by a large harvest festival to thank God

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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granted charter after the Puritan Great Migration, Puritans left England to get away from persecution

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John Winthrop

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Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, made a speech about how they needed to cooperate to make the colony succeed

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Great Puritan Migration

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Puritans were elected to parliament witch angered the king who ignored and disbanded many times. Puritans left and created a new colony away from England

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Harvard University

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Established 1636 by Puritans to educate colonists and Indians in the way of Christianity

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Laws and Liberties

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written rule of law as oppose to common law, people could not be punished outside the law of the country or by the word of God

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New Hampshire

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Originally part of Massachusetts, given to someone as an independent colony but wasn’t governed well. Then governed by Massachusetts but stayed independent

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Maryland

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Founded by Cecil Calvert 2nd lord of Baltimore, by Catholics for Catholics but not enough Catholic people came

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Acts of Toleration

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Established in Maryland, gave religious freedom to all Trinitarian Christains

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Providence Plantation

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Founded by Roger Williams who was exiled from Massachusetts Bay colony for being a heretic

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Roger Williams

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believed in freedom of conscience, allowed freedom of religion, and was opposed to slavery

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Anne Hutchinson

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Heretic exiled from Massachusetts for believing you could not tell if someone was part of God’s elite

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Connecticut

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founded by people from Massachusetts who did not believe the colony there was “holy enough”

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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first constitution in America

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New Sweden

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Delaware was first established as New Sweden in 1638 by Peter Minuet

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Delaware

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New Sweden was taken over by the Duke of York and re-established as Delaware

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Barbados

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Rich colony of sugar plantations that relied on slave labor

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Carolina

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Founded in 1663 by men from Barbados and established a unique form of government with the Carolina Constitution by John Locke

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New York

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Originally founded by the Dutch, then taken over by the Duke of York

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Pennsylvania

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Founded by William Penn, wealthy land owner and leader of the Society of Friends - Quakers. Given to him by the king of England because he owed Penn money

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Quakers

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preached total equality, no hierarchy, held meetings where everyone could speak

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Robert de La Salle

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French explorer who traveled from New France down the Mississippi River snd founded St Louis and New Orleans

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Georgia

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Founded by James Oglethorpe as a generous venture for the poor to have work and initially outlawed slavery

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Noble Savages

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some Europeans believed it was not bad to be a savage, closer to nature and god

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Why did Europeans think the Indians were savages?

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They were different, different languages, clothes, and customs

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General Idea of Indians

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Some believed Indians were intelligent, capable and a enemy to understand

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Pequot War

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War with the Pequot Indians over trading with other tribes

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Canadian Martyrs

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murdered by Indians and martyred, became Saints

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