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| the population of migrants from Asia (transported via land bridge) that settled in North America |
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| Sioux; Pawnee; Pueblo; Iriquois |
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| Great Plains Indians
Southwest - multistoried buildings
Northeast- formed the Iriquois Confederacy |
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Central/South American Natives |
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the period of englightenment when Christopher Columbus first sailed to the coast of America |
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a country in which the majorityof people share both a common culture and common political looyalties toward a central government |
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Papal Line of Demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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1494
when the pope indicated the line dividing the West from East to state what Spain owned and what Portugal owned |
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| required teh Spanish to pay a tax to their king on every slave they imported into the Americas |
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| pooled the savings of people of moderate means and supported trading ventures that seemed potentially profitable |
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| Virginia Company / Jamestown |
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| a joint-stock company that established the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607 |
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| a colony under the direct control of the mother countries' monarchy |
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| Puritans / Plymouth Company |
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| the group of seperatist puritans that settled in Plymouth for religious tolerance |
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| Mayflower / Mayflower contract |
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| 1620, a small group of Pilgrims set sail on this ship and landed in Plymouth / early form of colonial self-government |
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| when 15,000+ settlers were driven by the civil war in England in the 1630s to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| Virginia House of Burgesses |
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| operated by joint-stock companies |
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| under the authority of individuals granted charters of ownership by the king |
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| 1649; the first colonial statute granting religious freedom to all Christians |
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| Chesapeake Revolution; 2 long-lasting disputes in colonial Virginia- sharp class differences and colonial resistance to royal control |
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| under contract with a master or landowner who paid for their passage to work for a specified period, unpaid in return for room and board |
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| granted 50 acres of land to each immigrant who paid for his own passage and any plantation owner who paid for an immigrant's passage |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| the first constitution written in American history |
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| offered by some clergymen to those who professed limited religious commitment |
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| New England Confederation |
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| a military alliance between Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven, that limited powers to act on boundary disputes, return of runaway servants, and dealings with the Native Americans |
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| new American colonies were founded in the late 17th century during the English history known as the Restoration |
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| foundation of Philadelphia for the Quakers |
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| guaranteed freedom of worship for all and unrestricted immigration |
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| utilized trade, colonies, and the accumulation of wealth as the basis for a country's military and political strength |
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1. trade to and from colonies to be carried only by English or colonial-built and run ships
2. all goods imported into colonies, except for some perishables could pass only through ports in England
3. Specified or "enumerated" goods from the colonies could be exported to England only |
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| 1688; deposed James and replaced William and Mary as rulers of New England |
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1. ships loaded with barrels of rum would start out from a New England port and cross the Atlantic to W. Africa
2. the ship would set out on the Middle Passage
3. the ship would return to NE ports where sugar would be sold to be used in making rum |
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