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35 Cards in this Set
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Founded the Roanoake Colony aka the Lost colony
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Walter Raleigh
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agreement between Spain and Portugal; divided up new world; Spain claimed Americas Portugal claimed Brazil
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Rebellion of the back country farmers who wanted more land on the west to farm on. Took place in Virginia
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Bacon's Rebellion
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England = Protestant
Spain = Catholic Dutch wanted to be Protestant, England and Spain wage war over Spain trying to convert Dutch. Spain loses, England the new superpower |
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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First settled by mostly men and adventurers; funded by joint-stock companies; starvation and disease; Virginia Company
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Jamestown
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Queen of England; defeated Spanish Armada; Moderately Protestant
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Elizabeth I
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daughter of chief of Powhatan tribe; offered as wife of John Rolfe to appease the tensions between indians and settlers
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Pocahontas
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introduced tobacco crop to Jamestown; married Pocahontas; helped create the tobacco industry and save Jamestown
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John Rolfe
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harsh leader of the settlers to Jamestown
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John Smith
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governor of Virginia; called for help from England when he saw the destitution of Jamestown
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Thomas Dale
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creator of the Calvinist church; predestination
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John Calvin
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Established the Massachusetts Bay colony; have for the hundreds of exiled Puritans; created a joint-stock legislature
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John Winthrop
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Dutch governor of Amsterdam; was defeated by Duke of York (future James II)
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Peter Stuyvesant
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uprising by the Wampanog Indians vs white settlers and led by their chief Metacom; killed 5% of white population; eventually defeated by white settlers
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King Philip's War
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James II wanted to consolidate the northern colonies into one large royal colony; Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Plymouth colonies, etc.
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Dominion of New England
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sad piece of writing that predicts doom
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Jeremiad
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Puritans were persecuted in England; large population migrated to the northern American colonies like Massachusetts
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Great Puritan Migration
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exiled from Puritan Massachusetts for having Lutheran like prayer meetings in her home; moved to Rhode Island
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Anne Hutchinson
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criticized Massachusetts government and their seizure of indian lands without purchase; exiled and formed colony in Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Haven formed a military alliance; ended bc of colonial rivalries and England's monarch taking control
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New England Confederation
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founded Pennsylvania; moderate colony that had tolerance for Quakers;
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William Penn
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bloodless governmental takeover; James II replaced by Mary and William; bill of rights made and Dominion of New England broken up
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Glorious Revolution
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first constitution drafted in American history; established in Connecticut
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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killing spree of women due to superstition
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Salem Witch Trials
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land given to people to promote settling; 50 acres for every head that moved to Virginia
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Headright system
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transportation of slaves from Africa to the West Indies; tight ships that killed many africans with cruel living quarters
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middle passage
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second generation puritans could take part in church w/o being completely committed to God
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halfway covenant
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Leisler was unpopular and imposed taxes and alienated people with his religious rage etc; he was beheaded and piked
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Leisler's Rebellion
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sparked the Great Awakening; very energetic and emotional; delivered emotional sermons and went on 2 year quest to revive piety
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George Whitefield
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spread the Great Awakening in the Connecticut River Valley; energetic preacher who revived religious piety
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Jonathan Edwards
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rebellion led against the native americans; citizen vigilante group
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Paxton Revolt
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They wanted greater political rights for their region and demanded more local courts, fairer taxes, and greater local representation in the provincial assembly. Moderators made them accept colonial govt.
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regulator protests
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seized Quebec; British Prime minister
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William Pitt
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treaty: british got canada and florida; france gave up everything.
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treaty of paris
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frenchman who founded Quebec; decimated the helpful Huron indians with european diseases by accident
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Samuel de Champlain
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