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| a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th centurywithin the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrineand worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part ofthe 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party. |
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| The Virginia Company refers collectively to a joint stock company chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America. |
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| An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflowerin 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws. |
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| an adherent of Charles I of England in his contestwith Parliament |
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| lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respectopinions or beliefs contrary to one's own. |
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| Virginia House of Burgesses |
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| was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. |
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| a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in NorthAmerica 1607; restored 1957. |
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| a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropicalcountry, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like iscultivated, usually by resident laborers. |
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| any crop that is considered easily marketable, as wheat or cotton. |
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| a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant. |
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| a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends. |
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| a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially abusiness, usually with considerable initiative and risk. |
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| the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the Americancolonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770. |
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| to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction |
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| a person who came to America and was placed under contract to workfor another over a period of time, usually seven years, especiallyduring the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servantsincluded redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution,persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers. |
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| the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and theWest Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slaveships. |
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| 1632–1704, English philosopher. |
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| a philosophical movement of the 18th century,characterized by belief in the power of human reason and byinnovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine. |
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| the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to anyof various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organizedsociety is brought into being and invested with the right to securemutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among itsmembers. |
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| any right that exists by virtue of natural law. |
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| 1737–1809, U.S. patriot and writer on government andreligion, born in England. |
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| Declaration Of Independence |
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| the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4,1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England. |
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| 1743–1826, U.S. statesman, diplomat, architect, andauthor: 3rd president of the U.S. 1801–09. |
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| the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775–83, bywhich the colonies won their independence. |
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| October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. |
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| an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the AmericanColonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for officialdocuments, commercial writings, and various articles: it was to go intoeffect on November 1, 1765, but met with intense opposition and wasrepealed in March, 1766. |
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| a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) inwhich Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents ofseveral hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest againstBritish taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East IndiaCompany. |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. |
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| a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Bostoncolonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troopsfired on the mob and killed several persons. |
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| a member of a group of American militiamenjust before and during the Revolutionary War who held themselves inreadiness for instant military service. |
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| a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and itsinterests with devotion. |
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| 1736–99, American patriot, orator, and statesman. |
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| a person who is loyal; a supporter of the sovereign or of the existinggovernment, especially in time of revolt. |
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| 1706–90, American statesman, diplomat, author,scientist, and inventor. |
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| 1732–99, U.S. general and political leader: 1st president ofthe U.S. 1789–97. |
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| The last battle of the RevolutionaryWar, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington. |
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