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Newfoundland
- Fisherman will meet off the coast to discuss
- currents/ winds/ and tides
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Powhatan Strategy
Sought to manipulate the English settlers to gain guns and power over their Indian rivals
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George III
Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson will call him a tyrant
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Albany Plan of Union
Ben Franklin’s attempts to organize the colonies from French advancements
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Champlain
Found of Quebec
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Seven Year’s War
Began over a territorial dispute concerning Ohio
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Paxton Boys
Threatened to burn Philadelphia if they did not receive protection from the Indians
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Jesuits
French Catholics who sought to convert Indians in Canada
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Silk Road
Muslim control of this trade link led to European exploration
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John Smith
His order to work or starve saves Jamestown
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James Wolfe
His victory at Quebec gives England a victory in the French and Indian War
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Mercantilism
The economic system of this period (more exports than imports, colonies, and gold and silver)
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Prince Henry
His navigation school will push Portugal to explore Africa
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Puritanism
Religion which believed that the “elect” were chosen by God
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Regulators
Sought the establishment of courts and an end to corruption in the Carolinas
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Treaty of Paris
Gave British control of North America
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Bartholomeu Dias
His voyage demonstrated that you could actually sail around Africa
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Jamestown
First English settlement in the New World
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Pontiac's Rebellion
This Indian uprising will lead to the Proclamation of 1763
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John Winthrop
Leads Puritans to new world, “city upon a hill”
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Proclamation of 1763
Parliament forbids the colonists from going west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Vasco de Gama
He will successfully sail around Africa to Indian and back again
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Headright System
An investor can receive land in the New World if he pays the passage for someone
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William Pitt
English Prime Minister who believed that England should trade with colonies not tax them
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Columbus
He will be forced to sail across the Atlantic since the Portugese control the African route
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Indentured Servants
A person promises to labor for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to the New World
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Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrims will create a governing document
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Ethan Allen
His Green Mountain Boys will create Vermont
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William Bradford
- Led Pilgrims to the New World, first governor of
- Plymouth
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James Oglethorpe
Founder of Georgia
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Roanoke
The failure of this colony will show the English just what is required to be successful
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Yamassee War
This Indian war is an example of the strategy of using Indians to defeat Indians
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Richard Hakluyt
He believed that England should set up a military base in the New World to attack the Spanish
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George
Grenville
First began to levy taxes on the colonies
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Chesapeake Gentry
This group will become the first aristocracy in the New World
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Antwerp
Spanish destroy England’s major trading partner forcing England to begin exploration
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Stamp Act
This tax caused the first congress to meet
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Salutary Neglect
the lack of control by Parliament will give the colonies a false sense of independence
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Maroon Communities
Runaway slaves will develop villages between Indian and white societies
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English Opposition
Although they are seen as frivolous in England this groups warning fo the King’s plan to steal the right of Englishmen will be embraced by the colonies
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Reconquista
- Ferdinand and Isabella force Moors and Jews out
- of Spain
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Middle Passage
Name given to the route bringing slaves to the New World
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Humphrey Gilbert
His attempt to found a colony for the poor of Europe sank with his ship in the Atlantic
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Actual Representation
This was the desire of the colonies concerning representation in Parliament
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John Coode
He will lead a rebellion in Maryland that will end the Calvert’s rule
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Ireland
- England’s colonization of this country is a blue
- print for their efforts in the New World
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Martin Frobisher
His discovery of wealth in the New World will be dampened when it turns into Fool’s Gold
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Nathaniel Bacon
His rebellion in Virginia will be in response to the governors lack of protection
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Townsend Acts
Colonists feared that the income from this tax would be used to pay colonial governments
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Martin Luther
Initiated the Protestant Reformation
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Enumerated Commodities
Colonial products which had to be sold to England
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John Calvin
Founder of Puritanism
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Bartolome de Las Casas
He will convince the Spanish that the Native Americans should not be enslaved
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Navigation Acts
British economic act which forces the colonies to trade with England
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Committees of Inspection
Colonists will prevent local businesses from selling English goods
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Thomas Hooker
Founder of Connecticut
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Balanced Constitution
The Monarchy was represented by the king, the aristocracy was represented in the House of Lords, and the common man was represented in the House of Commons
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Anne Hutchison
Her belief in Antinomianism will threaten the security of the Puritans
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William Penn
Founder of Pennsylvania
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Juan Ponce de Leon
Searched for the Fountain of Youth
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Calverts
Catholic family which controlled Maryland
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Tobacco
John Rolfe introduces this product which saves Jamestown
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Ferdinand Magellan
His ships will be the first to circumnavigate the globe
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Joint Stock Company
This business organization was successful because you could only lose what you had invested
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Gaspee Affair
The destruction of the King’s ship demonstrated the power of the Sons of Liberty
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Thomas Paine
Wrote Common Sense to strengthen the resolve of the rebelling colonists
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Lexington and Concord
First shots fired in the Revolutionary War
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Hernando Cortes
This explorer will destroy the Aztec empire
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Suffolk Resolves
Massachusetts calls for civil disobedience
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Coronado
Searched the Midwest for cities made of gold
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Protestant Reformation
Challenged the authority of the Catholic Church= emphasis upon faith for your salvation
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Lord North
English Prime Minister during the Revolutionary War
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Coercive Acts
Placed on Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party
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Quartering Act
This Parliamentary act will hurt the lower classes in the colonies who will be tormented by the presence of British troops
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Pizzaro
Spanish explorer who destroys the Inca empire
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English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell will set a precedent by leading a rebellion that will overthrow the King
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Circular Letters
A form of chain letters which provided the colonies with information about British actions
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Quakers
- Believed
- in an Inner Light= were pacifists/ were the first to protect slavery
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Roger Williams
Founder of Rhode Island
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Edmund Andros
First English leader to try to enforce the Navigation Acts on the Dominion of New England
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Great Awakening
Religious movement which centered around theatrical preachers
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Tenant Riots
New Yorkers rebel over issue of land ownership
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Stono Rebellion
Slave Rebellion
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Rational Chrisitanity
Based off of the Enlightenment they will believe in a tolerant Go and that salvation is open to all
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Enlightenment
Movement away from religious explanations to scientific reasoning
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