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The motives of the English colonizing North America. provide specific examples

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The English established colonies in North America they wanted new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries for example trade with Native Americans for fur. they wanted to cut lumber example shipbuilding.and wanted to grow crops example tobacco. They wanted to find gold and silver and excape of religious persecution

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Why did the English establish A colony on Roanoke Island?

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To provide new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries

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In which direction did most colonial settlement spread over time

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West

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What was the purpose of the London company

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Founded Jamestown with the goal of finding gold and wealth for settlers

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Define charter

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Document that grants the right to organize a settlement in an area

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Define indentured servant

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Men and women who signed contracts to pay for the passageway to the Americas

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Describe some of the challenges that Jamestown colonists faced

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Dieseases, starvation, and conflict with Indians

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What crop was most important in making Jamestowne and early Virginia in economic success

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Tobacco

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Why did the Powhatan Indians turn againist the Jamestown settlers

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Sellers raided Native American villages for food.

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What why is the historical significance of the Virginia house of burgesses

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It began a tradition of represent government English colonies

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I did Nathanial Bacon and his followers rebel and Burn Jamestown

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These colonists were protesting the high taxes and lack of available farmland

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In which type of colony does a person or persons own all land and control the colony’s government

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Proprietary

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What religion is tolerated in Maryland but banned in Georgia?

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Catholicism

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Give two reasons for the founding of Georgia

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Debtors would have opportunity and buffer colony ( protect rich SC from Spanish Fla.)

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How did early Maryland colony deal with the mixture of Protestants and Catholics?

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They passed a law that required religious toleration The toleration act

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Explain why the southern economy was primarily built on farming

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Warm and humid climate and fertile soil

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What role did Eliza Lucas play In the southern colonies?

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Developed indigo as important crop

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Define separatists?

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Pilgrims–they wanted to separate from the Anglican Church

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Name the ship that carried the pilgrims to the Americans

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Mayflower

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What was the Mayflower compact and what brought it about

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The pilgrims had intended to land in Virginia that were blown off course to Massachusetts. They decided that the rules of Virginia did not bind them and what they needed was of some sort of needed rules so they came up with the Mayflower compact. It was the first document in which American colonists claimed a right to govern themselves

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How did Native Americans help the pilgrims survive in America?

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They taught pilgrims how to farm and hunt

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Why did the puritans leave England to Massachusetts

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For religious freedom and to build a society based on Bibalic teachings

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John Winthrop was the leader of which religious group

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Puritans

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What does John Winthrop mean By a City upon a hill

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Set an example for the rest of the world

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Describe the puritans be Specific

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Puritans came to America for religious Freedom. believed that god only spoke from the Bible. they believed that one male church members could vote and they criticized people who held other religious views – puritans were intolerant

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How did the puritans and Pilgram’s views of the Angelican church differ

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Puritans wanted to purify and reform the Angelican church and the pilgrims wanted to separate from the Angelican church

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Who founded some of the colonies near the Massachusetts Bay:

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Puritan dissenters like Roger Williams (Rhode Island), and Anne Hutchinson (Portsmouth), and Thomas hooker(Connecticut)

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Why did Thomas hooker leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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He wanted to find a more democratic colony

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Why did Roger Williams clash with Massachusetts Puritans

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He did not think that governments should require a certain religious beliefs

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What were the economic activities of the New England colonies?

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Due to new England natural harbors, trade; shipping goods; shipbuilding; fishing.

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What natural resources help to make shipbuilding an important industry in the New England community?

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Trees(lumber)

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What is subsistence farming?

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Produced just enough to meet family needs

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What colony began as a Dutch settlement

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New York

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How did religion influence the culture of colonial Pennsylvania?

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Government provided for freedom of religion and Bought from Native Americans instead of seizing it

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What faith expressed a strong belief in nonviolence as one of its core principles

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Quakers

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How are puritans different from the Quakers

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quakers believed women were spiritually equal to men and did not need ministers

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What name was given to the middle colonies

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Breadbasket

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What is another name for the border established between Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1760s

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Mason Dixon line

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New England colonies include?

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Can Rhoda make ham?

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Southern colonies?

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Give me sugar now Virginia

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Middle colonies?

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2 new penny dollars

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Describe new England’s climate

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Long snowy winters and short warm summers

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What did Anne Hutchinson and Thomas Hooker have in common?

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Both disagreed with puritan leaders and left Massachusetts

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What was England’s first permanent settlement

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Jamestown

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How did Pennsylvania founders differ from those in Massachusetts

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Unlike the puritans, the founders of Pennsylvania believed in religious toleration

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What was the winter following johnson’s departure called?

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Starving time

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what type of established church did Rhode Island support?

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None, people of all faiths could worship freely = separation of church and state

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