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Age of Exploration
Question | Answer |
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Columbian Exchange | the exchange of plants, animals and diseases between Eastern and Western Hemispheres. |
Northwest Passage | water route to the west to connect Europe with Asia for quicker trading routes for silks and spices. |
3-G’s | God, Gold and Glory where the reasons for exploration to the new world |
Jamestown | first permanent English colony founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company for economic reasons. Tabaco was their cash crop. |
Economic | concerns money and wealth |
Political | concerns government, citizens’ rights and responsibilities. |
Social | involves how people organize themselves or live together. |
Charter | a grant to establish a colony, town or intuition |
Pilgrims | group of Protestants who were unhappy with the Church of England and fled to Holland then America to escape persecutions. Known as Separatists. |
Mayflower Compact | written by the Pilgrims at Plymouth MA pledging themselves to form a self-government and to obey the its laws. |
Puritans | Protestants Christians who left England and founded Massachusetts Bay for religious reason. They wanted to purify the Church of England |
Quakers | group of protestants who opposed war and violence and founded Pennsylvania. |