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John Smith

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Leader of Jamestown

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Joint- stock companies

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

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Jamestown

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First permanent English settlement in North America

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Powhatan

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Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown

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Head right System

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

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Indentured Servants

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Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America

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Royal Colony

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A colony under the direct control of a monarch

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Nathaniel Bacon

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Planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia

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Puritans

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Men=mebers of a religious group known for its strict beliefs

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Plymouth colony

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English colony in North America founded by the pilgrims

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Plymouth colony

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English colony in North America founded by the pilgrims

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Colony founded by Puritians in 1630

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John Winthrop

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Leader of the first settlement at Massachusetts bay

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Roger Williams

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Puritan dissenter who fled to Rhode Island in 1638

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Anne Hutchinson

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Puritan Dissender who fled to to Rhode Island in 1638

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Pequot War

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A 1637 conflict in which the Pequot battled Connecticut colonists

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Metacom

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Native American chief known as Kind Philiph 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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New Netherlands

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Colony founded by the Dutch in 1621

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William Penn

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Founder of Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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Members of a religious group known for tolerance

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Mercantilism

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Theory that a country’s goal was self sufficient and that all countries were in a competion to acquire the most gold and silver

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Parliament

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The law making body of England

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Navigation Acts

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Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade

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Dominion of New England

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A huge cologne formed by the King of England which included land from southern Maine to New JErsey

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Sir Edmund Andre’s

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Military appointed governor by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of Enlgand

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Sir Edmund Andre’s

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Military appointed governor by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of Enlgand

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Evolution

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Overthrow of James II, Kindg of England

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Salutary Negelect

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An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

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Cash crop

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A crop grown for sale rather than for farmer’s use

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Slave

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Person who is considered property of another

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Triangular Trade

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The patterne of shipping trade across the Atlantic

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Middle Passage

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The voyage that brought slaves to America

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Enlightenment

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Intellectual movement that started in Europe

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Enlightenment

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Intellectual movement that started in Europe

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Benjamin Franklin

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Philadelphia inventor, writer and political leader

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Jonathan Edward’s

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Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening

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Great Awakinging

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Religious revival movement in the colonies

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Stone Rebellion

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A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina

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New France

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French Colony in North America

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George Washington

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Led Virginia troops to fist battle of French and Indian war

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French and Indian War

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War that gave the British control of North America

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William Pit

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British leader in the French and Indian War

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William Pit

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British leader in the French and Indian War

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Pontiac

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Naive American leader who fought for the British

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Proclamation of 1763

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Law limiting he area of English Setlement

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George Grenville

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Finicaial expert who was appointed prime minister of Britain in 1763

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Sugar Act

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Law passed by the parliament to try to raise money

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