STAAR Points 1 Flashcards
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Founded by the Pilgrims , would later become the Massachusetts.
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Plymouth (1620)
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The first permanent English settlement in America.
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Jamestown (1607)
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Englishmen who wanted to separate from the Church of England, left England to escape persecution by the king.
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Pilgrims
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Englishmen who wanted to separate from the Church of England.
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Puritans
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Document signed by the Pilgrims to set up self-government in the Plymouth colony, they agreed to make their own laws and follow them.
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Mayflower Compact
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Founder of Connecticut, the “Founder of American Democracy”
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Thomas Hooker
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Plan of government adopted by the colony, called the “First Written Constitution in America”
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
