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The first Africans arrived at Jamestown to work on tobacco plantations. |
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Jamestown becomes the first permanent English settlement in the New World. |
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English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England. |
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The Virginia House of Burgesses |
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The first elected assembly in the New World. |
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Religious movement that swept both Europe and the colonies in the Mid-1700s. |
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Set of colonies that was home to multiple religious groups. |
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Crops that could be sold for profit. |
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The dominant religion in the eastern lowlands of the southern colonies. |
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Founded by dissenters fleeing persecution in Massachusetts. |
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People that agreed to work on plantations for a period of time in order to have their passage to the New World paid for. |
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Group of colonies that were founded on the basis of religious freedom. |
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Where did many of the poor English settle? |
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The Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia |
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European exploration and colonization resulted in the ___________ of the world's population. |
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