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| This explorer sailed to the Pacific to raid Spanish ships. He also explored the coast of California then continued on to be the second man to sale around the world |
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| Received a charter from Queen Elizabeth the first to explore the American coast line. His ships landed on Roanoke which became a “lost colony” |
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| Try to fight against English, destroyed by the sea dogs. This was the end of Spanish domination |
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| In England in the 1700s, the process of taking over fencing off public lands |
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| Common law that established the birthright of the eldest son to inherit the family estate |
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| A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the profit |
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| A group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in 1607 |
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| First permanent English settlement in North America |
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| The winter of 1609 to 1610 of the 400 settlers in Virginia, only 60 survived Period cannibalism was involved |
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| Arrive in Jamestown in 1610 , he was a veteran of the vicious campaigns against Irish and introduce Irish tactics and a campaign against the Indians. |
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| First English-Powhatan War |
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| Declared by lord the law war when he took over Jamestown; the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe ended war in 1614 |
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| War methods used by lord the la war against the Indians, raided and destroyed them |
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| The first elected legislative assembly in the New World, in the colony of Virginia and 1619. |
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| Establish a tobacco industry in Jamestown, help the colony of Jamestown to survive because of the prosperity of the new variety of tobacco |
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| Second English-Powhatan War |
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| Indians last effort to dislodge Virginians, they were defeated. Peace treaty start any hope of creating native peoples into Virginia society |
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| George Calverts; King Charles the first granted him control of Maryland as a reward for his service to the crown |
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| A labor who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for the passage to America |
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| A legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland. |
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| The harsh systems of laws governing African labor, first developed in Barbados and later officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696 |
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| Conflict from 1640 to 1660; included religious and constitutional issues concerning the powers of the monarchy, this ended with restoration of a limited monarchy |
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| This English man let the army to overthrow King Charles the first and was successful.He ruled England in a democratic style until he died. |
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| British kings restoration after a long period of Puritan domination. Dominance of French and classical influences on poetry and drama |
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| Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. |
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| Large farms in the colonies that use the enforced labor of sleeves to harvest cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export. |
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