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Chapter 5
Fields Vocabulary
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History
8th Grade
09/10/2013

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New Spain
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Caribbean, Mexico, Florida,, South America
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Encomiendas
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big peices of land made for mining, ranching and farming
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New France
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in Canada, along the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi
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New Netherland
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a colony that fur trading company with the people aroung the Hudson River Valley
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Jamestown
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in Virginia near the James River, 1st English colony
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Williamsburg
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in Virginia, the capital of colony, got rich on crops
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Pilgrims
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people that move to America because they disliked the Church of England
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Puritans
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moved to Massachusetts Bay, worship their own religion
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Mayflower Compact
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pilgrims made their own law that said they were going to form a government and live by its laws
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Roger Williams
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starts his own colony at Rhode Island, freedom of religion
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Anne Hutchison
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Puritans kicked her out of Massachusetts because she was leading her own worship to God
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William Penn
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founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers
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Quakers
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Protestants who disliked war
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Lord Baltimore
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founded Maryland for the Catholics
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James Ogelthorpe
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found Georgia for social reasons
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Indentured Servant
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paid slaves, landowners paid their way across the ocean then they worked for 7 years
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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laid out the future government for Connecticut
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