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| an English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607 |
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| colonist and leader of Jamestown |
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| a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe |
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| indentured servants (red) |
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| colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys |
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| Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify the Church of England |
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| Protestant group that cut all ties with the Church of England and was punished |
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| people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country |
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| legal contract male passengers on Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good |
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| Puritan who claimed to receive her religious views directly from God and was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| director general who took control of New Amsterdam beginning in 1647 |
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| Protestant religious group founded by George Fox in mid 1600's in England |
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| Quaker leader who began the Pennsylvania colony |
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| crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats |
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| an assembly in which colonists decided issues and made laws |
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| indirect trade between the American colonies and Britain |
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| name for the slaves' voyage across the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Boston leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission |
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| Committees of Correspondence (blue) |
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| method of communication between towns and colonies about British laws |
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| required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items |
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| shooting by British soldiers killed five colonists |
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| an act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea directly to colonists |
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| a protest in which colonists dressed as American Indians and dumped 340 tea chests from British ships into Boston Harbor |
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| laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
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