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History
8th Grade
01/07/2012

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Spain sent soldiers, settlers, and __________ to keep other european powers from threatening its empire in America
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missionaries
Term
what law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a protestant colony?
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Act of Toleration
Term
the Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and received a royal charter to establish a colony north of what?
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Boston
Term
whose rebellion eventually opened up more land for settlement?
Definition
Nathaniel Bacon
Term
what were religious settlements established in California by the Spanish called?
Definition
missions
Term
what was the movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts called?
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Great Migration
Term
to what colony did the English send a fleet to attack and acquire in 1664?
Definition
New Netherland
Term
what law granted to worship freely in Maryland?
Definition
Act of Toleration
Term
what were workers who paid their French lords an annual rent known as?
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tenant farmers
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which document covered land divisions and social ranking?
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Carolina Constitution
Term
who were people who refuse to use force or fight in wars called?
Definition
pacifists
Term
who were protestants who wanted to leave th Anglican Church ans found their own churches called?
Definition
Separatists
Term
which colony was created so debtors and poor people could start over?
Definition
Georgia
Term
what did King James I grant to groups of merchants to organize settlements in an area of america?
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charters
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Jamestown settlers found a way to make a profit for their investors by planting what?
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tobacco
Term
because their journey had a religious purpose, what did the separatists call thenselves
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pilgrims
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the ________ came to America for religious freedom, but refused to grant the same freedom
Definition
puritans
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________ was established as a colony where those who owed money to england could work to pay back their debt
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Georgetown
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the english wanted to take over New Amsterdam because it lay between the Southern colonies and the ___________
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New England
Term
the city of ____________ became the city of new york
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New Amsterdam
Term
to attract settlers to ________, its founder sent pamphlets to several European countries
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Pennslyvania
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settlers founded the _____________ colonies to gain religious freedom.
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New England
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french explorers founded________ in 1608 to establish fishing and trapping
Definition
Quebec
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in 1607 three ships entered the Chesapeke Bay with 144 settlers who established______________
Definition
Jamestown
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___________were settlers who could not pay their own passage and worked for certain amount of time to pay the cost
Definition
indentured servants
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the religion of the _________ taught that all people were equal
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Quakers
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