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| What were the three reasons that Richard Hakluyt, an English geographer, urged England to start a colony? |
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a)The colonies would provide a market for the English exports
b)The colonies would serve as a source for raw materials
c)the colonies would help to plant the protestant faith in the americs |
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| What were two reasons the English colonists went to the Americas? |
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a)lack of economic opportunity in England forced many to seek their fortunes abroad
b)escape religious prosecution |
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| finaced a colony on Island, Virginia in 1585. |
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Sir Walter Raleigh,
Roanoke |
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| The colonists relied on the for food however when they realized the settlers wanted their they cut off their food supply. |
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| What is a joint-stock company? |
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| A buisness in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
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| Each investor recieved pieces of ownership in a company called . Investors split and divided . |
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shares of stock,
any profits,
any losses |
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| A written contract issued by a goverment giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
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| In the Virginia Company of London founded the first permanent English settlement named . |
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| Define indentured servants. |
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| A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for a passage to America. |
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| The were a Separatist group who fled to Holland to escape harsh treatment. They eventualy settled in . |
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| In November of 1620, a ship called the landed on a site named on the Massachusetts coast. |
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Mayflower,
Plymouth (New England) |
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| The men on the Mayflower signed an agreement called the . In it the men vowed to . |
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Mayflower Compact,
obey laws that were agreed upon for the good of the colony |
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| During the first winter of the Pilgrims died. negotiated a peace treaty between the Natice Americans and the Pilgrims. He also showed them how to , , and . |
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half,
Squanto,
hunt, plant, fish |
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| What did the first Thanksgiving represent? |
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| the peace that existed at the time, between the Native Americans and Pilgrims |
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| The Purtitans wanted to or the church's practices. |
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| The leaving of thousands of Puritans from England is known as the . |
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| Who was forced to leave Massachusetts because he disagreed with the New England Way? |
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| Roger Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island. What were two guarantees this colony offered? |
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1)religious freedom
2)Separation of church and state |
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| King Philips's War was a war between the and the over land. |
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Puritans,
Native Americans |
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Two results of King Philip's War were:
1)Native Americans were forced to become .
2) expanded even farther into Native American lands. |
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laborers,
English Settlers |
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Pretending to be , girls falsely accused others of .
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| This experience howed how a society can create for its problems. |
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| To attract more settlers, the Dutch West India Company sed the patroon system. What is a patroon? |
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| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland |
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| What was a patroon rewarded? |
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| large land grant, special privelages in hunting, finshing, and fur trading on his land |
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| created a coloy named where Quakers could live according to their beliefs. |
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William Penn,
Pennsylvania |
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| Pennsylvania welcomes different and groups. Penn wanted the to be treated fairly. |
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Religions,
ethnic,
Native Americans |
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| Why did James Oglethorpe find Georgia? |
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| How did the English government want to use the colony of Georgia? |
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| as a military outpost against Florida to the south and French Louisiana to the West |
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