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| The most famous semi practical of the "seadogs." Plundered his way around the world and returned in 1580 with Spanish booty. |
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| Sir Humphrey Gilber's half-brother. Continued his brother's dream at attempt to English colonization. |
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| England defeated Spain in 1588 with a small fleet of ships. This led to the rise in power of Britain and the decline of power in Spain. |
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| it was the legal process in which the common land owned by the common people can be privately owned |
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| the state of being the firstborn child. |
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| a business owned collectively by its shareholders |
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| two joint-stock companies chartered by King James I of England. Their goal was to establish settlements in the New World in hopes they can find gold. |
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| The first successful settlement by the English and was named after King James I of England |
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| A captain and a soldier who was "saved" by Pocahantas |
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| In winter of 1609-1610, there was a food shortage and only 60 out of 500 lived made it alive to spring |
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| An appointed governor and was sent to Jamestown in 1610 by the Virginia Company to defeat the Native Americans. |
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| First elected assembly in America in which they allowed America to make its own laws |
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| First English- Powhatan War |
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| In 1614, there was a war between the natives and the settlers. Indian villages and fields were burnt to the ground. It ended with a peace settlement with the marriage of Pocohantas and John Rolfe. |
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| War methods introduced by Lord De la Warr in which it involves raiding and destroying property |
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| The husband of Pocohantas and the father of the tobacco industry |
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| Second English- Powhatan War |
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| Occurred in 1644, the Indians fought back against the settlers and tried to push them out of the land but were greatly defeated by the English. The natives were banished from the ancestral lands and separated the people. |
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| An absentee proprietor. He founded the Maryland colony as a haven for the Catholics. |
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| men and women that signed a contract to work for a certain number of years in exchange for food, clothing, and shelter. |
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| The act passed in 1649 which allowed religious toleration but only for the Christian faiths. |
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| A law passed in 1661 by the English colonial legislature that provides the legal basis of slavery in Barbados |
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| Started in 1642-1651, it is a series of wars between the Parliamentarians and the Royalist over the governance of England |
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| An English general and statesman and a Puritan follower. He ruled over England for nearly a decade |
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| Occurred from 1660 to 1668. Charles II returned to the English throne after being exiled |
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| One of the proprietors. He founded the Georgia colony in 1733 |
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| Large farms in the colonies that relied on cash crops such as tobacco and rice. It required large amounts of lands and labor or slavery |
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