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| Just as companies in the modern day sell stocks in order to increase their profits, a Joint-Stock Company is one that sells "shares" or involvement in the company for revenue. |
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| The Virginia Company consisted of investors from London. Their purpose and mission was to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to the temperate part of the Chesapeake Bay in order to build Jamestown. |
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| Jamestown was a fort, built by 100 men of the Virginia Company, in honor of King James I. It was supposed to be the first permanent English Settlement in North America or the "New World". |
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| Powhatan was the leader of several Algonquian tribes. By the time the English encounter him, he has already faced a conflict with the Spanish Settlers. He was an obstacle in the way of English Settlers. |
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| He was the military leader of the Colony of Jamestown. He had written that in times of hardship, the Indians helped the settlers rather than destroying them. However, his words would be used against him when Powhatan realizes that the settlers didn't come in peace, but for their own benefit. |
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| She was the daughter of Powhatan, sent diplomatically to speak with the leaders of Jamestown. She would later die during a trip to England, which is likely attributed to foreign diseases that were unknown in North America at the time. |
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| She was the daughter of Powhatan, sent diplomatically to speak with the leaders of Jamestown. She would later die during a trip to England, which is likely attributed to foreign diseases that were unknown in North America at the time. |
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| Created in 1619, this "House" is a branch of colonial government containing representatives throughout Virginia. |
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| : A proprietary colony is one that is owned by "proprietors", or sole owners, and is therefore under control of said people, who may do what they wish with the land. |
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| A major branch of Protestantism that focuses on the divinity of God, and the evil within mankind. This could often lead to self inflicted harm in pennance. |
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| An Indentured servant is a man or a woman that leaves his/her own country to go to the new world. They don't have enough money for their own transportation, so, they exchange their services as a servant (up to about 7 years) for the journey's fee. |
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| Puritans are those who follow John Calvin and Calvinism. As the name may imply, they wish to purify the English Church, as they feel it has been tainted. |
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| These are settlers of the New World that left their home country. They believed that it was corrupt and turning evil, so they must leave and start their own lives. The pilgrims sailed from England on the Mayflower in 1620. |
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| The Mayflower Compact can be seen as a constitution of sorts. It is a document proclaiming the Pilgrims' independence as a settlement. |
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| Squanto served as a teacher for the pilgrims. He taught about farming corn. He was exceptionally helpful do to his increased proficiency in the English Language. |
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| : This is the man who would later be the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He developed the idea of "A City on a Hill". |
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| This "City on a Hill" was the idea of John Winthrop. He believed that it could serve as a model to England of reform and purification. |
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| This was a group of wealthy Puritans given rights by the government to settle and trade in Massachusetts. |
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| The Great Migration is the mass movement of Puritans out of other lands and into Massachusetts. |
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| This was when the English and the Narragansets attacked the Pequot village at night, and killed most of the residents whilst they were asleep. |
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| The Salem Witchcraft Trials were held due to common events being unusually challenged, such as an economically independent widow. This event would show that Puritans saw women very negatively at times. |
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| Hooker was a minister from Cambridge who disagreed with many Puritan practices. He would later help to establish Connecticut. |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| These were a set of laws, regulations, and decrees, partially written by Thomas Hooker, that would be used to start the colony of Connecticut. |
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| Williams was a very significant man. He was known for his secular beliefs, as well as the idea that colonists had no right to just take land from the Indians. However, he was banished from the Bay Colony for these ideas. He later bought land and began the town of Providence, which is in present day Rhode Island. |
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| Along with her husband(a merchant), Hutchinson moved to Boston in 1634. She was known for her religious discussions and beliefs. However, she would later be excommunicated and banished for an accidental statement. She would later move to Roger WIlliams's Settlement and build a community of like-minded people. |
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| : The Restoration Colonies were named based on the time that they were created. After King Charles was beheaded, there was a period of political confusion. However, once King Charles II was Restored to power, he created colonies during this period of restoration, which would come to be known as the Restoration Colonies, such as Early Carolina. |
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| William Penn was an English Quaker who would come to settle in Pennsylvania. His goal was to have a safe place for Quakers to live, as they were seen as outcasts to society. |
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| Killing a total of six-thousand people, this war would mark the English control over the colonial lands. Being 38 years after the last conflict with the Indians, Christianity had been spread. However, when people are forced to convert to something that they don't believe in, tensions rise. |
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| In 1675, Nathaniel Bacon led a revolution farther south than King Philip's war, against the tobacco planters. However, this rebellion ended along with Bacon's life. |
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| William Berkeley was no friend to Bacon. His main efforts were to stop the military advancements made by Bacon's Revolution. |
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| In 1677, the government of North Carolina was overthrown in Culpeper's Rebellion. The government was then replaced by a rebel government. |
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| This was a unified governmental region of New England, New York, and New Jersey colonies, set in place by King James II. |
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| : These were acts that prohibited colonies from trading with any other nations than the mother country. (Mercantilism: The belief that the colonies exist to benefit the mother country.) |
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| The Glorious Revolution was started by King James II, when he alienated Parliament. This revolution, however, was a rather peaceful one. Later on, the English Bill of Rights would be put in place, thus creating a revolution within the English government. |
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| This war was a conflict between the French and the English over control of the central portion of the Modern U.S.A. For almost seventy-five years, this bloody conflict would lead to an indecisive ending with the Treaty of Ryswick. However, five years after the treaty was signed, war erupted again. |
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