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John Smith
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An English explorer the founder of Jamestown (1580-1631)
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James town
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The first English permanent settlement founded in May 1607.
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Joint stock company
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corporation involving 2 or more legal persons. The company in return for each financial contribution, the shareholders can transfer their ownership at any time by selling their stock holding to others people.
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Indentured Servant
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A worker that is under a contract for a certain time of period in exchange for transportation, food and clothes.
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Puritans
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A group of English protestants in the 16th and 17th century.
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John Winthrop
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He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony but in 1639 and 1648 he was elected to governorship.
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King Philips War
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a conflict between the natives and the English colonists from 1675-1676
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The head right system
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A legal grant of land to settlers which helped the expansion of the 13 colonies.
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The Calverts
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Governor of new found land (1579 – 15 April 1632) and was an English politician and coloniser.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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In 1676 in the Virginia Colony, the first rebellion in the American colonies.
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William Penn
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An English estate entreprenuer, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.(1644-1718)
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mercantilism
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An economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism that hold supply of capital.
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navigation acts
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a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies, which started in 1651.
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roger williams
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between January and March 1683) was an American Protestant first one to proponent of religious freedom .
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Anne Hutchinson
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was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands .(1591-1643)
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John coodes
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(february -march 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689.
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Rebellion
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obedience or order for violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as a government.
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William Penn
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An English estate entreprenuer, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.(1644-1718)
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Quakers
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outlawed at church oxfords fund colonies in Delaware under puritan influence in the 17th century.
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navigation acts
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a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies, which started in 1651.
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roger williams
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between January and March 1683) was an American Protestant first one to proponent of religious freedom .
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Anne Hutchinson
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was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands .(1591-1643)
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John coodes
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(february -march 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689.
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Rebellion
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obedience or order for violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as a government.
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