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Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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Joint-stock company

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merchants financing a colony

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investors

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People who invest of hopes of making a profit

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3
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Mercantilism

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Way to enrich treasuries

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4
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Charter

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Permission to form a colony

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5
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Persecute

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Mistreat

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Roanoke

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The lost colony

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John Smith

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Saves Jamestown

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8
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John Rolfe

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Discovered a form of tobacco that made him wealthy

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Pocahontas

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The daughter of a chief who married John Rolfe

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Separatists

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Wanted to separate from the Church of England

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Mayflower Compact

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Agreement to follow majority rule

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12
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Squanto

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An English speaking Indian who helped starving pilgrims survive by teaching them how to plant native crops.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Established first colony on Raonoke Island in North Carolina

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14
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Indentured servant

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Work a number of years for passage to America

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15
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Dissenter

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People who disagreed with the church

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16
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Tolerance

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Acceptance of different ideas

17
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Congregations

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Group of people who belong to the same church

18
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Banish

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Forced to leave a colony

19
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Elite

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High ranking

20
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Diversity

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Variety

21
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Region

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Distinct area of land

22
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Lost colony

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Roanoke

23
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Jamestown

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The permanent English settlement in North America

24
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William Penn

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Founded the province of Pennsylvania

25
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How did Penn get Pennsylvania

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King Charles II gave a large piece of North America to William Penn because the King owed it to William Penn’s father

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Middle Colonies

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New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

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New England Colonies

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Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island

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Southern Colonies

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Maryland, Carolina’s, Georgia

29
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Quakers

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A group of people who believed in equality of all people

30
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Colony for debtors

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Virginia or North America

31
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Tobacco’s importance to the colonies

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Tobacco profits fuel settlements

32
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Mayflower

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The ship that carried the pilgrims from England to Plymouth

33
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Pilgrims

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A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons

34
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Plymouth

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The first English settlement settled by religious separatists/pilgrims

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