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| The first permanent English settlement in North America. |
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| Servants that signed a contract to work four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America. |
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| Bacon and his followers attached and burned Jamestown in an uprising. |
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| This bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians. |
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| A Protestant group that wanted to purify,or reform, the Anglican Church. |
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| Were one Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution. |
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| Quaker leader who established a colony with the goal of fair government for all. |
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| People who have left the country of their birth to live in another country. |
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| A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good. |
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| The Society of Friends that made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey. |
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| Crops that are always needed. |
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| Meetings in which people talked about and decided on issues of local interest, such as paying for schools. |
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| Act of 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch. |
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| A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa. |
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| The slave trade that brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. |
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| A movement which took place during the 1700s and spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society. |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| Committees that got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them. |
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| This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items. |
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| Allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. |
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| Colonists disguised at Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 chests into Boston Harbor. |
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| Coercive Acts passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. |
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| One of the great leaders of the Great Awakening, he urged sinners to seek forgiveness. |
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| System of creating and maintaining wealth through controlled trade. |
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| Daughter of Powhatan chief whose marriage to colonist John Rolfe eased tensions between the Powhatan and the colonists. |
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| When was Jamestown founded and where was it located? |
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| 40 miles up the James River in Virginia, in 1607. |
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| Describe the changing nature of the relationship between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians |
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| The Powhatan helped the colonists by bringing them food and teaching them to grow corn. When John Rolfe married Pocohontas, more peaceful relations formed, but in 1622, a colonist killed a Powhatan leader. The Powhatan attacked the Virginian settlers later that year and fought the nexxt 20 years. |
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| What was the main cash crop in Virginia? |
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| Why did the plantation system develop in Virginia? |
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| Under the headright system, colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land. A colonist could earn another 50 acres for every additional person brought from England. |
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