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Companies backed up by investors used to raise money to finance a colony
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Written contract issued by government giving holder right to establish a colony- given in 1606 from England
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All the early English colonies, including Jamestwon
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In 1607 this was the first permanant English settlement in Virginia by the James River
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royal colony
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Jamestown
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Roanoke
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Plymouth
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Which is a reason that Jamestown was an economic success in early colonization
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It became a strong religious colony
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It traded with the Native Americans
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It relied heavily on the fur trade
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It used tobacco as a cash crop
Question 6
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If someone couldn't afford passage to America they were encouraged to become
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patroon
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proprietary colony
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indentured servant
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joint-stock company
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The first representative assembly in the American colonies
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What was the most significant result of Bacon's Rebellion was that
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As more colonists came to Jamestown the relationship of the Powhatan changed by
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the Powhatan tribe helped the colonists more
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the Powhatan tribe traded more with the colonists
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Powhatan tribe killed hundreds of Jamestown's colonists because tobacco plantations kept taking more of the Powhatan land
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the Powhatan tribe went to war with the colonists and the colonists defeated the Powhatan's and took over all their land
Question 10
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The Pilgrims at Plymouth could not have survived without the aid of
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the Mayflower Compact
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Native Americans
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Puritan merchants
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King James
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What two ideas were set up in the Mayflower Compact
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religious freedom
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self-government
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majority rule
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land owning rights
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Why did Jamestown fail as a colony prior to 1608 (4 answers)
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Separatist group who came to America on the Mayflower.
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Pilgrims
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Quakers
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royal colony
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Purtitans
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What was the main difference between the reason for founding of Jamestown and the rest of the New England colonies
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religious freedom
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land
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tobacco plantations
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equality
Question 15
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When 20,000 puritans left England to come to America it was known as
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the Great Migration
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Mayflower compact
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the New England Way
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Salem Witchcraft Trials
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Three movtivating factors of European colonization (check 3)
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When the Dutch settled in New Netherland it used this to increase the populations by offerning land grants and special rights
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Mayflower compact
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charter
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indentured servant
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patroon system
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Someone who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland
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charter
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patroon
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royal colony
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proprietary colony
Question 19
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The patroon systems goal was to increase power in which settlement in America
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English
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Dutch
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Spanish
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German
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What is a proprietary colony
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a colony under direct control of the king
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a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king
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a colony with a single owner
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a colony where everyone owns a part of it
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What is a royal colony
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a colony with a single owner
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a colony ruled by the king
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a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king
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a colony that is governed by its people
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What stresses duty, godliness, hard work, and honesty
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Great Migration
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New England Way
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Bacon's Rebelion
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Mayflower Compact
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Which colony was created as a colony for true religious freedom
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The founding of the middle colonies and William Penn and the Quakers was known for what
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religious tolerance
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racial tolerance
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a set religion to follow
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economic worries
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Why did King Phillip's war begin
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Why did Bacon's rebellion begin
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What made American colonization important to England
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convert the Natives religion
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a place to send bad people
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markets for England's goods
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get witches out of England
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What did the Mayflower compact emphasize that is also emphasized in the constitution
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rights
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land
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limited government
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one leader
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Pick four reasons we began to use Africans as slaves
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they were immune to most European diseases
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they had no help (family, friends) to escape from slavery in America
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they were cheap labor
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they already had farming skills
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they had the same religion
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they were already in America
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Who settled in Rhode Island to seek religious freedom
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Roger Williams
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Native Americans
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Anne Hutchinson
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Quakers
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What wer the Pilgrims and Puritans both seeking when they came to the Americas
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to spread the Catholic religion
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chance to convert Native Americans to the Church of England
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Religious freedom from the Church of England
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economic freedom
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What would not be an example of mercantilism for England
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What was the first representative Assembly in the colonies
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Thousands of Puritans leaving Europe for the Americas was known as
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Royal colony
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great migration
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preprietary colony
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Mayflower compact
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Maryland was founded as a colony that
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What made Jamestown an economic success
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What branch of government did the House of Burgesses lead to
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Federal branch
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Executive branch
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judicial branch
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legislative branch
Question 38
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Why did the colonies of Roanoke and Sagadahoc fail as early New England colonies
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summer droughts
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attacked and taken over by Spain
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food shortages and fights with Native Americans
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corupt govorners who bankrupted the colonies
Question 39
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A colonial document establishing self-government and majority rule was the
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New England Way
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Mayflower Compact
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Toleration Act
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Many groups were attracted to the Middle Colonies by the promise of
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religious freedom
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trading rights
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escape from debt
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capable leaders