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Brinkley Ch. 2 Vocab

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show The Chesapeake Colonies were important to the developing English empire in the 17th century because they provided tobacco, a cash crop. Jamestown was developed here  
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show A joint-stock company chartered by King James I in 1606 to establish an English colony in North America and make a profit for its shareholders  
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show The name of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, established in 1607  
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show The House of Burgesses was the first legislative body in British North America, and was part of the governing body of Virginia; established laws for Jamestown  
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show Bacon's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Virginia's colonial government that took place from 1676 to 1677  
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show Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) was the governor of Virginia who was the subject of Bacon's Rebellion  
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Nathanial Bacon   show
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show Cecil Calvert was the son of George Calvert, he became the second lord Baltimore and was given the propietary control of Maryland after his father died in 1634  
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show A c colony is a colony that received a charter from a king to create a colony; given to groups, like a joint-stock company; not directly ruled by the king and use a form of self-government. A royal colony is a colony directly ruled and owned by the king.  
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show The Pilgrims were Separatists who held Brownist beliefs and wanted to break away from the Church of England  
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show The Mayflower Compact was a social contract signed by the Pilgrims on November 11, 1620, to establish a government for Plymouth Colony  
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Plymouth Colony-­‐ William Bradford   show
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Great Migration-­‐internet   show
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show John Winthrop — Puritan Leader and 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony  
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Anne Hutchinson (antinomianism)   show
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Roger Williams   show
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Pequot War   show
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show King Philip's War was a series of conflicts between Native Americans and English settlers in New England that took place from 1675 to 1676.  
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show Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, are known for their beliefs in spiritual equality, pacifism, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  
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William Penn   show
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show In 1669, the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina established a manorial system with a small number of powerful nobles governing serfs and nobility; tobacco  
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show James Oglethorpe was a British General and member of the house of parliament. He formed the colony of Georgia in 1732  
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-­‐know the three colonial regions-­‐ be able to describe characteristics of each   show
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show an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests  
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show The Navigation Acts, or more broadly the Acts of Trade and Navigation, were a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce with other countries and with its own colonies.  
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