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Chp. 2 & 3 History Test Flashcards

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Father of Pocahontas
Chief of Powhatan tribe
Helped the early English settlers

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Powhatan

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Daughter of chief Powhatan
John Rolfe’s wife
Saved John Smith
Her name was Rebecca

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Pocahontas

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Was a Wampanoag Indian
Taken as a slave
Lived in England for a while
Helped the early Plymouth colonist survive
Took part in the first thanksgiving
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Squanto

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Introduced tobacco to Jamestown

Pocahontas husband

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John Rolfe

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Adventurer, member of the original council in Jamestown, wrote about his adventures and he was always the hero of them, he has to return back to England after he hurt his leg, he then mapped from the Carolina’s to New England

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John Smith

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Governor of Plymouth, insisted that they planned how their colony was run before they landed and they called this plan the mayflower compact

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William Bradford

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Governor of the Dominion of New England

And he was the most hated man for a while bc he took away their land and charters.

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Edmund Andros

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Wrote “Two Treaties on Government” he said all people had natural rights: life, liberty, and property

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John Locke

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Founded Georgia, brought former prisons to America and founded the colony to give the slaves a new chance

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James Oglethorpe

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Was a wealthy backcountry farmers and was a member of the house of burgess. Led a revolt for backcountry farmers bc the taxes were unfair and h government was not protecting them against the natives.

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Nathaniel Bacon

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Quaker who founded Pennsylvania. Was a pacifist and got the charter because the king was in debt to Penn’s father. Pennsylvania means Penn’s Woods

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William Penn

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Brought the first colonist to Roanoke Island.

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Walter Raleigh

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Founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hid the charter

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John Winthrop

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Founded Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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Founded Connecticut

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Thomas Hooker

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Exiled from Massachusetts because she claimed that which preachers were godly and which weren’t. Founded a small town that became apar of Rhode Island.

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Anne Hutchinson

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First English settlement in the North America. Many think they left because they were starving to death and moved in with the tribe.

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Roanoke

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When was Jamestown established?

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1607

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Who established Virginia?

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Virginia Company

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When was Plymouth colony established?

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1620

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Who established the Plymouth colony?

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William Bradford and a group of puritans

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Both Maryland and Virginia bordered here. Most of the ports that sent tobacco and other products out was located here.

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Chesapeake Bay

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The area on the east coast where the rivers were so deep that the tides affected the water levels so they could dock while the tides were high and get out before it went down

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Tidewater

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A Shallow area of the coast of Massachusetts up until Maine that had a lot of plankton so it was very good for fishing

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Grand Banks

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Name the New England colonies

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New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut

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Name the Middle Colonies

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New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

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Name the Southern Colonies

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Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland

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Navigation Act Affected trade because all ships had to go to England. Under the staple act all ships had to go through England no matter coming in or coming out. Had to be a British ship

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Navigation and Staple Acts

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They couldn’t farm, bad land, land was swampy so lots of mosquitoes and diseases, no clean water, they had a bad government, and they thought they were crazy.

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Problems of Jamestown Colony

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It was the government of Virginia. It was the first representative government in America.

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Virginia House of Burgesses

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The plan for government that they wrote on the ship before they landed

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Mayflower Compact

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Also called the great fundamentals. First written constitution in America

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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A leg of the triangular trade. That brought slaves from Africa to America

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Middle Passage

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Combination of several different colonies into one colony under the rule of one king

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Dominion of New England

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revival of interest in the importance of the church and recommitting yourself to the ideals of the church. They thought the colonists had gotten away from there roots of their church; revival of the church

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Great Awakening

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The age of reason

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Enlightenment

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They were Germans that spoke Deutsche

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Pennsylvania Dutch

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When William and Mary took over and there was no conflict, it was a revolution without war

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Glorious revolution

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Farming just enough for your family to live on

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Subsistence farming

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One who wanted to purify the Church of England of all catholic rituals and because of this they were prosecuted. Then they went to war with the king.

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Puritan

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Someone who wanted to leave the church and their goal was to start a new church and form their own religions. That is why they are called separatists.

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Pilgrim

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People selected from New England to be apart of the general council that ran the towns

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Selectmen

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When Charles II came to the throne and the Puritan rule came to an end.

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Restoration

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Didn’t believe in war or violence and were pacifists. Settled in Pennsylvania

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Quaker

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Large farm where cash crops were grown like tobacco, rice, and cotton. Was labor intensive

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Plantation

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Someone who was a servant for 5-7 years until his indenture was paid off. His indenture was the payment for his passage to America and the food to keep him alive.

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Indentured servant

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Backwoods farmer. Most were subsistence farmers

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Yeoman

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Trade from Britain to Africa to the Americas

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Triangular trade

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Owned by its leaders, the people who financed the founding of its colony

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Proprietary colony

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Idea that a countries power depends on its wealth

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Mercantilism

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