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| The first Africans arrived at Jamestown to work on tobacco plantations. |
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| Jamestown becomes the first permanent English settlement in the New World. |
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| English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England. |
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| The Virginia House of Burgesses |
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| The first elected assembly in the New World. |
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| Religious movement that swept both Europe and the colonies in the Mid-1700s. |
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| Set of colonies that was home to multiple religious groups. |
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| Crops that could be sold for profit. |
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| The dominant religion in the eastern lowlands of the southern colonies. |
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| Founded by dissenters fleeing persecution in Massachusetts. |
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| People that agreed to work on plantations for a period of time in order to have their passage to the New World paid for. |
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| Group of colonies that were founded on the basis of religious freedom. |
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| Where did many of the poor English settle? |
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| The Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia |
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| European exploration and colonization resulted in the ___________ of the world's population. |
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