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20 Cards in this Set
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Antinomianism
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belief that obedience is not necessary for a prope relationship with God.
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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first written constitution in America
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charter colony
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governed by a trade company or business
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proprietary colony
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governed by appointees of the King
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covenant
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agreement between God and His people
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Mayflower Compact
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first document of self-governing in America
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royal colony
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controlled directly by the King
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indenture
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contract that gave land to a colonist in exchange for labor
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Great Migration
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fifty thousand settlers who came to the New World in the 1630s
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headrights
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fifty acres of land for colonists in Virginia
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Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper
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proprietor of the southern Carolina settlement
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Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore
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first governor of Maryland
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Dutch governor of New Netherland who surrendered to the English
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John Winthrop
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governor of Massachusetts
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Henry Hudson
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explorer of the New York region
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Roger Williams
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banished from Massachusetts for believing in separation of church and state
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Anne Hutchinson
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expelled from Massachusetts for Antinomianism
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William Penn
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Quaker who undertook the "Holy Experiment."
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Peter Minuit
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Dutch governor who purchased Manhattan Island for $24.
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James Oglethorpe
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reforing governor of Georgia
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