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show a colony, as Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, chartered to an individual, trading company, etc., by the British crown.  
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Definition and Significance of Virginia Company of London:   show
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show A British settlement established on the James River in Virginia in 1607, abandoned when the colonial capital was moved to Williamsburg at the end of the 17th century.  
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show A confederacy of Native American peoples of eastern Virginia in the 16th and 17th centuries, with present-day descendants in the same area.  
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show An english explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631).  
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show American Indian; daughter of Powhatan, an Algonquian chief in Virginia. According to John Smith, she rescued him from death at hands of her father. In 1612, she was seized as a hostage by the English, and she later married colonist John Rolfe.  
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Definition and Significance of Starving Time:   show
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show John Rolfe 9c. 1585 - 16220 was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export corp in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas.  
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Definition and Significance of indentured Servants:   show
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Definition and Significance of Head-right System:   show
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Definition and Significance of Virginia House of Burgesses:   show
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show The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century. The First War started in 1610, and ended in a peace settlement in 1614.  
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show Anglican Church: the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head.  
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Definition of Significance of Puritans:   show
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show An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws.  
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show Plymouth Bay is the name of a small, well-protected bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the western shore of larger Cape Cod Bay along the coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  
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Definition of Significance of William Bradford:   show
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show Tisquantum (better known as Squanto) (c. 1580s – November 1622) was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival.  
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Definition of Significance of Massasoit:   show
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Definition of Significance of Massachusetts Bay Company:   show
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Definition of Significance of Great Migration:   show
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show The Maryland Constitution of 1776 renamed the Provincial Court as the General Court, which was divided geographically into the General Courts of the Eastern and Western Shores.  
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Definition of Significance of John Winthrop   show
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show "A Model of Christian Charity" is a 1630 sermon by early American colonist John Winthrop, who wrote this piece while on board of the Arabella.  
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show Prosperity theology (also known as prosperity doctrine, the health and wealth gospel, or the prosperity gospel) is a religious belief found among "tens of millions" of Christians centered on the notion that God provides material prosperity.  
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show Predestination is a religious concept, which involves the relationship between God and God's creation. The religious character of predestination distinguishes it from other ideas about determinism and free will.  
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show The Protestant Work Ethic (or the Puritan Work Ethic) is a concept in sociology, economics and history, attributable to the work of Max Weber.  
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show (Christianity / Protestantism) any evangelical Protestant Christian Church that is governed according to the principles of Congregationalism. In 1972 the majority of churches in the Congregational Church in England and Wales voted.  
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show Williams: English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683).  
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Definition of Significance of providence:   show
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show Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group.  
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show a religious movement which believes that only the spiritual 'law of Faith' (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation; and which is 'against' all other practical 'laws' being taught as being essential for salvation; and refering to them as legalism.  
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Definition of Significance of Thomas Hooker:   show
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show The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1638/39 OS (January 24, 1639 NS). The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers.  
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show So-called war consisting of clumsy plundering by Massachusetts troops and raids by Pequots in 1637. The colonists eventually won the alliance of rival tribes and waged a ruthless campaign. The war tipped the balance of military power to the English.  
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show Metacom (ca. 1639 - August 12, 1676), also known as King Philip or Metacomet, or occasionally Pometacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War.  
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show (1675–77) The first large-scale military action in the American colonies, pitting various Indian tribes against New England colonists and their Indian allies. Marked by heavy slaughters on both sides (including killings of women and children).  
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Definition of Significance of Henry Hudson:   show
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show New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the seventeenth-century colonial province on the East Coast of North America of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula.  
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show an Anglicized Dutch term referring to a grant of land and political authority (a fief) awarded to an individual, a patroon, who had the obligation to settle fifty colonists within four years.  
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show Peter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 - August 1672), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.  
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Definition of Significance of Quakers:   show
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show Son of an Admiral who had supported the restoration, Penn joined the Quakers in 1662 after he was thrown out of college for associating with Puritans. His trial, with William Meade, for preaching at an unauthorized Quaker meeting.  
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Definition of Significance of Proprietary Colony:   show
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Definition of Significance of Maryland Act of Toleration:   show
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show The British Overseas Territories are fourteen territories of the United Kingdom which, although they do not form part of the United Kingdom itself, fall under its jurisdiction.  
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Definition of Significance of James Oglethorpe:   show
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