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struggle to found colonies

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Leader of the Jamestown colony   john smith  
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share in a company   stock  
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plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower   Mayflower Compact  
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person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America   indentured servant  
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where the pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower   Plymouth  
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Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia   John Rolfe  
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Law making assembly in colonial Virginia   House of Burgesses  
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Puritan leader and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630   John Winthrop  
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English sea captain who explored North American in search of the Northwest Passage in early 1600   Henry Hudson  
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Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom in 1636   Roger Williams  
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group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony   Puritans  
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a dividing line between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plains   Fall line  
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part of the middle colonies; stretched across the Appalachians   New York & Pennsylvania  
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Puritan leader banished from Massachusetts because of religious beliefs   Anne Hutchinson  
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coastal regions of the middle colonies; found on the Atlantic Coastal Plains   New Jersey & Delaware  
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Leader of the Jamestown colony   john smith  
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share in a company   stock  
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plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower   Mayflower Compact  
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person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America   indentured servant  
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where the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower   Plymouth  
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Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia   John Rolfe  
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Law making assembly in colonial Virginia   House of Burgesses  
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Puritan leader and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630   John Winthrop  
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English sea captain who explored North American in search of the Northwest Passage in early 1600   Henry Hudson  
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Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom in 1636   Roger Williams  
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group of people who wanted to "purify" the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony   Puritans  
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a dividing line between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plains   Fall line  
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part of the middle colonies; stretched across teh appalachians   New York & Pennsylvania  
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Puritan leader banished from Massachusetts because of religious beliefs   Anne Hutchinson  
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coastal regions of the middle colonies; found on the Atlantic Coastal Plains   New Jersey & Delaware  
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Jamestown   first permanent English colony started in North America  
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document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by a ruler   charter  
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crop grown for profit   cash crop  
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group who wanted to separate from the Church of England   Separatist  
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leader of the Separatists   William Bradford  
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a person whose views differ from those held by most people in a community   dissenter  
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why the English founded a new colony in Roanoke Island   gold and other natural resources  
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what is the first colony   Roanoke Island  
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type of government set up in virginia colony   self-government; house of burgesses  
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reasons for conflict between Spain and England   Francis Drake raided Spanish ships  
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some of the problems the first Jamestown colonists encountered   starvation, disease  
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how were the problems of Jamestown solved   traded for corn, fished in rivers  
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what was the impact of the search for the Northwest Passage on the establishment of the French and Dutch settlements in North America   Founding of Quebec and Montreal; found new colonies, such as New France, New Netherlands  
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what factors lead to the growth of Quebec   traded beaver fur  
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River that Dutch took control of as a result of the searching for the Northwest Passage   Hudson  
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what were the motivations of the Pilgrims coming to North America   to practice religious beliefs  
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Why did the Pilgrims end up in Plymouth   ship blown off course by a storm  
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difficulties encountered by Pilgrims on their journey and in establishing the Plymouth colony   winter, hunger, disease  
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native american tribe that helped Pilgrims   Wampanoag  
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how did the Wampanoag help the pilgrims   helped set up colony  
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who sent a group ahead to get colony started for others   puritans  
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translators for the Mansoit   Samoset and Sqanto  
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who set up buildings and frams   Puritans  
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who decided to have the first Thanksgiving   John Winthrop  
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longest growing season   southern colonies  
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difficult to farm because of rockiness   New England colonies  
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used timber and waterways   New England colonies  
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warmer climates, fertile soil, wheat, water transportation   Middle Colonies  
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rich soil, tobacco, rice   southern colonies  
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founded by Pilgrams, Puritans, and Quakers in search of religious freedom   southern colonies  
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impact of religion on teh founding of the New England colonies   set it up due to need for religiuos freedom  
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what happened to Puritans who did not follow the Puritan way of life   sent away or forced to leave the colony  
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how did the Southern and Middle colonies get started   King Charles II gave away plots of land  
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how did the New England colonies get started   need for religious beliefs  
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events leading up to the disappearance of Roanoke   colony was founded, John White returned to England for more supplies, England and Spain went to war, white could not come back and the colonists disappeared  
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important product to Jamestown   tobacco  
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why was tobacco important to jamestown   profit  
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how did the Dutch plan the growth of New Amsterdam   encouraged settlement  
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reason pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving   successful harvest  
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were invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims   Wampanoag  
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why were the wampanoag invited to Thanksgiving   show appreciation for all they had done  
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what are some similarities of Puritans and Pilgrims   persecuted for religious reasons, wanted to change the Church of England; sailed north to start their own colony  
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colonies found because of religiuos and political freedom   Rhode Island & Connecticut  
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why was the location of Georgia important   located between two colonies that were rivals  
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georgia   helped protect other English colonies from Spanish attacks  
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