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Spanish explorers of the 1500's, their quest was for "God, Gold, and Glory"
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| people sent by the church to teach and convert others to their religion. |
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Creoles- pure Spanish descent but born in the Americas
Mestizos- Mixed descent between Native American and Spanish |
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1597, It was an early colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh and John White that failed mysteriously off the present day NC coast. |
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| businesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
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1606, was the first English colony to survive.
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Tobacco (sustained economy)
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Indentured Servants
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Location (Swampy=Malaria)
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Inside Powhatan territory
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| 50 acre grants of land offered by the Virginia Company beginning in 1618 in order to attract settlers to the New World. |
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| people whose employers pay for passage to the country they wish to emigrate to, food, and shelter; in return the indentured servants agree to work for the employer for a certain number of years |
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| 1619, an assembly of various Virginia communities which only white, land owning males could be granted membership. |
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| By the late 1600's indentured servants were costly and were decreasing in number |
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1620, the group landed in Cape Cod on the Mayflower and was lead by William Bradford.
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| 1630, was a colony lead by John Winthrop. A.K.A (A City upon a hill) |
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| Between 1620 and 1643 some 20,000 English crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in New England. |
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| was a group which were members of a Protestant sect founded in the 1640s in England. They later settled in Pennsylvania. |
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grants of land given by the King to his loyal friends. Four new colonies were established: New York, New Jersey, Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
**This was after the English Civil War and Restoration** |
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| Georgia "The Buffer State" |
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| 1680's, James Oglethorpe was given the task to settle Georgia the last of the original 13 colonies. The military experts wanted to create a buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida. |
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Lord Baltimore was the influential force that created the colony. He was Roman Catholic and hense was banned from other colonies.
**Maryland named for Queen Henrietta Maria or the bibilical Virgin Mary** |
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| economic policy held that a nation's power was directly related to its wealth |
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Is the relationship between a country's imports and exports
**Beginning Problems**
England controlled the trade of the American colonies, and they couldn't trade with any country but England |
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series of laws passed between 1651 and 1663 by Parliament stating that all goods coming from Europe or Africa to the colonies had to travel on British ships manned with a British crew.
**Increased revenue for England, also increased enforcement costs**
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| Salutary Neglect of the American Colonies |
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| the idea that the colonies benefited by being left alone, without too much British interference. |
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