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| a Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas |
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| treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal. |
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| rotation of crops allowing 1 field empty in order for the nutrients to come back |
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| Indian uprising in New Mexico caused by Spanish efforts to suppress Indian religion |
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| Elizabethan courtier who failed in their attempt to found the new world colonies. |
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| an economic arrangement by which a # of investors pool their capital for investment |
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| a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor , often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training |
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| a frontier farmer who illegally occupied land by others or not yet officially opened for settlement |
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| the legal principal that the oldest son inherits all family property or land |
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| 1st representative self government in Virgina, 1st of the many small parliaments; an assembly |
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| harsh military governor of Virgina who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians |
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| conqueror of New Sweden who later lost New Nether to the English |
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| English revolt that also led to the overthrow of the Dominion of New England in America |
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| head of the Dominion of England: English military man |
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| agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial gov. |
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| promoter of Massachusetts Bay as a holy " city upon a hill" ; governor for Massachusetts Bay colony. |
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| a document drafted in an open meeting by the new Connecticut River colony: a modern constitution. |
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| written by Pilgrims as a simple agreement to form a gov. and submit to the will of the majority under regulations agreed upon. |
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| colonial Virgina official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge |
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| major middle rebellion that caused 33 deaths |
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| experience for which human beings were branded and chained , and which 80% survived |
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| helped erase earlier Puritan distinction between the converted " elect" and other members of society: an agreement about church admit to baptism but not fall communion |
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| whoever paid the passage of the laborer received the right to get 50 acres of land: Maryland and Virgina`s system of granting land to anyone who would pay trans-Atlantic passage for laborers |
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| itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies |
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| stimulated a fervent ,emotional style of religion, denominational divisions, and a greater sense of inter-colonial American identity |
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| marked the beginnings of freedom of printed political expression in the colonies. |
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| small but profitable trade route that linked New England , Africa, and the West Indies |
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| a tax on molasses; passed by parliament meant to be a blow to American international trade with French West Indians |
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| former slave who became a poet at an early age. |
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| Brilliant new England theologian who instigated the great depression |
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