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Chapter 2- “The Planting of English America: 1500-1733”
Unit 1- Colonial America
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History
11th Grade
10/19/2020

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Francis Drake
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This explorer sailed to the Pacific to raid Spanish ships. He also explored the coast of California then continued on to be the second man to sale around the world
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Walter Raleigh
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Received a charter from Queen Elizabeth the first to explore the American coast line. His ships landed on Roanoke which became a “lost colony”
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Spanish Armada
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Try to fight against English, destroyed by the sea dogs. This was the end of Spanish domination
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enclosure movement
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In England in the 1700s, the process of taking over fencing off public lands
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primogeniture
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Common law that established the birthright of the eldest son to inherit the family estate
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joint stock company
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A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the profit
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Virginia Company
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A group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in 1607
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Jamestown
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First permanent English settlement in North America
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John Smith
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Mayor of Jamestown
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“starving time”
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The winter of 1609 to 1610 of the 400 settlers in Virginia, only 60 survived Period cannibalism was involved
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Lord De La War
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Arrive in Jamestown in 1610 , he was a veteran of the vicious campaigns against Irish and introduce Irish tactics and a campaign against the Indians.
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First English-Powhatan War
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Declared by lord the law war when he took over Jamestown; the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe ended war in 1614
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“Irish Tactics”
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War methods used by lord the la war against the Indians, raided and destroyed them
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House of Burgesses
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The first elected legislative assembly in the New World, in the colony of Virginia and 1619.
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John Rolfe
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Establish a tobacco industry in Jamestown, help the colony of Jamestown to survive because of the prosperity of the new variety of tobacco
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Second English-Powhatan War
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Indians last effort to dislodge Virginians, they were defeated. Peace treaty start any hope of creating native peoples into Virginia society
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Lord Baltimore
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George Calverts; King Charles the first granted him control of Maryland as a reward for his service to the crown
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indentured servants
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A labor who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for the passage to America
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Act of Toleration
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A legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland.
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Barbados Slave Code
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The harsh systems of laws governing African labor, first developed in Barbados and later officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696
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English Civil War
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Conflict from 1640 to 1660; included religious and constitutional issues concerning the powers of the monarchy, this ended with restoration of a limited monarchy
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Oliver Cromwell
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This English man let the army to overthrow King Charles the first and was successful.He ruled England in a democratic style until he died.
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Restoration
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British kings restoration after a long period of Puritan domination. Dominance of French and classical influences on poetry and drama
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James Oglethorpe
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Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony.
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plantation colonies
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Large farms in the colonies that use the enforced labor of sleeves to harvest cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export.
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