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| a settlement far from the country that rules it. |
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| England's first attempt at a colony |
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| a document that allowed colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler. |
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| first permanent English colony in the New World |
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| a group of merchants that helped finance the colony of Jamestown |
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| a settler in Jamestown who was elected leader. |
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| leader of the Powhatan people who traded with Jamestown settlers |
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| daughter of Chief Powhatan who visited the Jamestown settlement |
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| settler who first raised tobacco in Virginia |
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| a crop grown to sell for profit |
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| people who agreed to work for someone for a certain period of time in exchange for the cost of a passge to America. |
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| the first law-making assemblyin an English colony. |
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| a person who travels to a new place for religous reasons |
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| a group of people that wanted to sparate from the Church of England |
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| leader of a group of Separatists that settled in Cape Cod at Plymouth Colony |
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| colony founded by the Pilgrims in New England |
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| the name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed in |
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| a plan of government for the Plymouth Colony |
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| a native American who helped the Pilgrims |
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| A Native American living with the Wampanoag who helped the Pilgrims survive |
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| the leader of the Wampanoag who made a peace treaty with William Bradford and the Pilgrims |
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| a group of English settlers who wanted to purify the Church of England |
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| colony founded by the Puritans called Boston |
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| a minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was forced to leave because he believed the government should not punish people for what they believe. |
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| English colony founded by Roger Williams that promised complete religous freedom |
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| another settler who was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony because she believed that a persons own faith was more important that a church's rules and laws. |
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