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The American Colonies Emerge - Chapter 2 Flashcards

To understand the reasons for the European colonization of the Americas, as well as how the original 13 English colonies took hold in what is now the United States.

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Spanish explorer

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Conquistador

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Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

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Hernándo Cortés

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Spanish colony in the New World

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New Spain

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Person of mixed Spanish and Native American descent

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Mestizo

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Brutal Spanish system of using Native Americans for labor

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Encomienda

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Conquistador who explored present-day Florida

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Juan Ponce de León

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Spanish colonies in North America

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New Mexico

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Pueblo religious leader who led an uprising against the Spanish

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Popé

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Leader of Jamestown

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John Smith

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Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the hope of yielding a profit

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Joint-stock companies

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First permanent English settlement in North America

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Jamestown

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Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown

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Powhatan

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The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land

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Headright system

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Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America

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Indentured Servants

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A colony under the direct control of a monarch

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Royal colony

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Planter who led a rebellion in 1676 against the governor of the Virginia Colony

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Nathaniel Bacon

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Members of a religious group known for its strict beliefs

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Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony

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john Winthrop

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Members of a Puritan group who established their own congregations

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Separatists

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Second permanent English colony in North America founded by the Pilgrims

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Plymouth Colony

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Colony founded by Puritans in 1630

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritan dissenter who set up a new colony in Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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Puritan dissenter banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who fled to Rhode Island in 1638

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Anne Hutchinson

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A 1637 conflict in which Pequots battled Connecticut colonists

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Pequot War

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Native American chief who fought against English colonists in the King Philip’s War

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King Philip’s War

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Conflict between settlers and Native Americans

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Colony founded by the Dutch in 1621

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New England

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Owner of a colony

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Proprietor

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Founder of Pennsylvania

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William Penn

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Quakers

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Members of a religious group known for tolerance

U.S. History I (17 decks)

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