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| Lived in Tenochtitlan, became the biggest Mexican empire |
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| land where climate and resources varied, depending on latitude. Many Scots-Irish immigrants settled here |
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| A refusal to buy something |
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| Crops raised to be sold for money |
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| A written contract, issued by a government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony. |
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| The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and the Eastern hemispheres. |
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| Committee of Correspondence |
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| Groups that exchanged letters on colonial affairs |
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| A Spaniard who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and a conqueror in the 16th century |
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| A way of life shared by people with similar arts, beliefs, and customs |
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| One who leaves military duty without intending to return |
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| To send to foreign countries |
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| The study of the surface of the earth, and its relationship with the climate, elevation, vegetation, population, and landuse. |
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| A mill in which grain is ground to produce flour of meal |
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| Where a soldier of group of soldiers weakens the enemy with surprise raides and hit-and-run attacks |
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| A German professional soldier hired to fight in a foreign country |
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| To bring in from a foreign country |
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| Lived in Peru, built Empire in Cuzco Valley |
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| A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America |
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| A plant grown in the Southern colonies that yields a deep blue dye |
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| A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
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| A line that gave Portugal land east of line, and Spain was given all land west of the line. |
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| An American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution |
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| An economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade. |
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| A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry |
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| A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution |
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| A member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning" |
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| A person's rights to life, liberty, and property |
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| A fur-trading post established in 1608 that became the first permanent French settlement in North America. |
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| A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves |
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| American colonists who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution |
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| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges. |
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| Torture and punishment for a belief in a certain religion (e.g. Christianity) |
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| A member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth colony in 1620 |
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| A colony with a single owner |
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| A member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England. |
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| A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups |
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| A 16th-century religious movement to correct problems in the Roman Catholic Church |
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| A period of European history, lasting from the 1300s to 1600, that brought increased interest in art and learning |
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| A colony ruled by governors appointed by a king |
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| To illegally import or export goods |
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| A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution |
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| Farming that produces enough food for the family with a small additional amount for trade |
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| The transatlantic system of trade in which goods, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonied in North America |
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| Search warrants that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods |
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| Believed that a person could worship God without church, a pastor, or a Bible |
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| Founded 1st permanent English settlement; named it in honor of King James |
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| Founder of Georgia; founded it as a refuge for debtors |
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| Was a Quaker; founded Pennsylvania |
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| Demanded that Governor William Berkeley approve a war against the Native Americans to seize their land for tobacco plantations |
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| One of the best-known preachers, terrified people about God's anger |
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| A famous Enlightenment figure |
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| Argued that people have natural rights |
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| Publisher of the N.Y. Weekly Journal, stood trial for printing criticism of the governor |
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| A member of Virginia's house of Burgess who called resistance to the tax |
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| A leader of the Sons of Liberty |
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| A Boston silversmith who spread the news about Britis troop movement |
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| Wrote the Declration of Independence |
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| Travelled slowly and threw many parties to celebrate his victories |
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| Won the most famous sea battle. In 1779, he became the commander of Bonhomme Richard. |
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| was the general of the colonial army and the 1st president of the U.S. |
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| General Charles Cornwallis |
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| British general who set up his base at Yorktown |
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