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First American colony founded
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It was founded in 1607.
Success came through trade of tobacco with the Indians. |
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Founder of the
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Settlers Arrived on the Mayflower.
Inspired by eventual success of Jamestown colony economically. |
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First written law in America.
Had authority spelled out, and gave out fair and equal laws for the new colony. |
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| Colony fromed by puritans after the Virginia colony of Plymouth. This colony soon spread out on the land and created new cities such as Salem. It was the second major settlement in New England, because Plymouth was first. |
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| was a wealthy English puritan. major figure in founding the MA Bay colony. And he wrote "city on a Hill". |
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| An article written by John Winthrop showing the concept that the Puritans are chosen to be watched by others, and are to be the example of how to act and what to do for those who are not chosed to be examples. |
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| Established by the Virginia Company. The first assembly of elected representatives in the New England Colonies and was similar to Britian's parliment. |
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granted freedom of worship (religion) to non-conformists |
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| A rebellion led by nathanial Bacon against Indian Tribes in the area of Virginia that were attacking the farmland, and was unauthorized because Governor Berkely acted friendly towards the indians. |
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| way to attract immigrants. gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrants way; mainly a system in the southern colonies. |
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| Colonists would pay to bring over someone from another country to the American colonies with them, but they had to work off their debt by being an indentured servent. |
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| theological way of thinking that you are under no obligation to follow the moral laws of your own religion. |
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| English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663. |
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| American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious view. She is a key figure in the study of the development of religious freedom in England's American colonies and the history of women in ministry. |
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a form of Protestant Christianity which emphasizes the spiritual aspect of Christain faith and experience.
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| Popular religion during colonial times. Very strict: believed in working as many hours of the day as posible, didn't dance, or do anything just for pleasure. |
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| A colonist of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; the founder of Pennsylvania |
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| The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. |
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| The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies |
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American History . a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum. |
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| Puritan law saying that the children and grandchildren of church members with full-membership could be baptized and have partial membership in the Puritan church |
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| was a period of heightened religious activity, primarily in the United Kingdom and its North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
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| American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America |
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| American Puritan clergyman and writer. |
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| Salem Witch Trials. people were being burned at the stake due to accusations of whitchcraft. |
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| the formal act of freeing from slavery |
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| a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin |
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| A German-born American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City |
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French and Indian War
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| First war where Americans were joined together to fight a common enemy. |
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| proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany Congress in 1754 in Albany, New York. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes" |
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| This treaty ended the French and Indian War in 1763 |
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Passing laws with no intention of enforceing the laws.
great Britain was doing this with their American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s. |
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