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| leif ericsson, and other norse explorers sailed to north america across davis strait. Attacks by local residents forced them to depart from vinland, they established an outpost called L'Anse aux meadows, newfoundland |
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| powahattan's brother and successor, launched attacks along james river, died in a war against christianity |
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| missionaries of the society of jesus, a roman catholic order converting nonbelievers to christianity |
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| wrote "A Breife and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," in 1588 to publicise Raleigh colony for wut it rele is. said that sometimes the english explorers killed indians for unjustifiable reasons |
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| wanted to confine church membership to persons they believed "saved" those God had selected for salvation before birth |
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| John Eliots solution to convert indians into christianity. believed indians had to be civilized b4 they were chrisitians, these houses taught them that |
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| produced large amounts of sugar for europe, sugar plantations run by slaves |
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| governor of large land owners, would not let ppl take land north of York river, b/c fighting btw indians wud start |
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| thought of as an economic necessity, symbols of quest for prosperity, property rights, legal property |
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| pequots were the middle trading men btw new england and dutch. but then the english came n they cud trade directly with them, which put pequots outta loop. pequots tried to turn everyone against english but failed. started attacking towns. |
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| fundamental orders of connecticut |
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| 1639-laid down basic law for settlements established along Connecticut River Valley in 1636 and thereafter |
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| ppl of mixed race,, fit into social structures of colonies well |
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| indian that translated for english btw natives, captured by fishermen in 1610 and taken to europe, learned to speak english. came back to tribe but learned that all of them were completely wiped out, became pilgrims translator. |
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| exchanged food for tools to the english, indians cropped failed, english kidnapped powhattan;s daughter pocahauntus, she married john rolfe, and died in 1616 after bearing a son |
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| usually credited for discovering north america, brought to europe the first acknowledgement of north america coastline. master mariner from genoa. journey brought western and eastern hemisphere's together |
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