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| a zone under girded by ancient rock |
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| dense concentration of population |
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| inheriting or determining descent through the female |
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| inheriting or determining descent through the male line |
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| an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc. for some purpose |
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| Mississippian settlement near present day East St. Louis |
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| investment and ownership of products and companies is done individually |
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| allowed the government to "commend", or give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them |
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| people of mixed Indian and European heritage |
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| based on large-scale commercial agriculture and the wholesale exploitation of slave labor |
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| the reverberations from the discovery of the New World |
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| Spanish and Portuguese divide the "heathen lands" of the New World |
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| 1680, an Indian uprising from the suppression of native religions |
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| false concept that the conquererors merely tortured and butchered the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery. |
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| an agreement to establish a government written by William Bradford |
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| people who came to the colonies at their own will as servants and were freed over a few years time |
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| 1533-1603; queen of England |
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| 1566-1625; king of England and Ireland |
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| a company, chartered in England in 1629 to establish a colony on Massachusetts Bay |
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| an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock |
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| colony named in honor of Elizabeth (after a bad start, mysteriously vanishes) |
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| English explorer and writer credited with founding North Carolina colonies |
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| a system of obtaining land in colonial times in which one received fifty acres of land for every emigrant to America one sponsored |
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| colony established in Massachusetts for the Puritan seperatists |
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| American religious liberal, born in England |
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| founder of the Rhode Island colony; believed that individuals had a close relationship with God |
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| founder of Plymouth colony, wrote the Mayflower Compact |
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| a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state |
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| savior of the Jamestown colony during the "starving times" |
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| British colonial governor of Virginia |
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| any of certain colonies that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self government |
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| a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I |
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| German theologian and author; leader of the Protestant reformation |
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| founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony; stole royal charter |
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| a war in 1637 between the Connecticut colonists and the Pequot Indians |
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| the war between New England colonists and a confederation of Indians |
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| Spanish Dominican missionary and historian in the Americas |
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| any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain |
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| founder of Maryland colony |
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| a Dutch colony in America along the Hudson river |
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| the combining of New England's colonies into one |
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| Anglican preacher that helped spread the Great Awakening |
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| the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships |
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| founder of Pennsylvania colony; a Quaker |
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| granting religious freedom to dissenting Protestants upon meeting certain conditions |
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| land grants given by King Charles II to his supporters of the Stuart Restoration |
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| 1650; a religious sect found by George Fox |
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| american clergyman and author |
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| 1739; largest slave rebellion; South Carolina |
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| the assembly of representatives in colonial Virginia |
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| an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown |
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| William and Mary take control over James II |
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| a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine |
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| the arrest and execution of John Peter Zenger |
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| trials held in Salem, Massachusetts in which 20 people were executed for allegedly practicing witchcraft |
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| an uprising in colonial New York lead by Captain Jacob Leisler |
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| a time of religious revival in colonial America |
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| trading company founded in 1602 to protect the Dutch's Indian ocean trade ways |
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| up to 1763, the French's American colonies |
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| confederation of five Indian tribes across upper New York |
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| a person who maintains that Christians are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace as set forth in the gospel |
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| allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members and have political rights |
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