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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tobacco | most important money maker for the early colonists in North America |
| slave trade | Spain and Portugal began bringing thousands of slaves to the Americas in the mid 1500's |
| Cartier | He claimed Canada for France |
| John Cabot | claimed much of North America for England |
| Puritans | main group of English settlers who came to North America |
| Puritans | wanted to purify the Church of England. |
| Separatists | were an English christion group that wanted to leave the Church of England |
| dissenters | were puritans who disagreed with the teachings of the Church of England |
| Mayflower Compact | document signed by the Pilgrims stating their desire to form a civil government. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Massachusetts who was persecuted by fellow Puritans for her teachings |
| Roger Williams | Puritan preacher who taught that people should be free to follow any religion. without being persecuted. He founded Rhode Island. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | the first written Constitution in North America |
| Native Americans | traded with white settlers often. (guns, iron pots, whiskey? |
| Indian deaths | most died from European diseases like Chicken pox and measles |
| Wars | Indians were angry because whites moved onto their land without permission |
| toleration | accepting different beliefs and cultures |
| New England colonies | Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland,Virginia, Carolina, Georgia |
| New France | streched from Quebec, Canada down the Mississippi River to New Orleans |
| New Spain | stretched from Texas to California, as well as Mexico |
| New Amesterdam | founded by the Dutch on Manhatten Island. It later became New York |
| 1620 | year first slaves were brought to North America |
| William Penn | Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
| quakers | believed in pacifism, inner light, equality between all people |
| Lord Baltimore | Catholic founder of Catholic friendly Maryland |
| Nathan Bacon | led a rebellion in Virginia in order to capture more Indian land |
| pacifist | a person who does not believe in war for any reason |
| Georgia | colony founded to settle British debtors |
| missions | established by Catholic priests in New Spain in order to convert Indians. |
| French&Indian interaction | cooperation, respect, intermarriage, partnership |
| William Penn | he respected Indian land boundaries, so the Indians respected him |
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