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American Pageant unit 1

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Jamestown   First permanent English settlement in North America  
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada   Caused the end of Spanish naval dominance  
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Roanoke   Lost English colony  
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Joint Stock company   Means by which some colonies were funded (Virginia)  
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Lord de la Warr   Instilled harsh military discipline at Jamestown  
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Disease   Main killer of Native Americans  
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Tobacco   Crop that saved Jamestown  
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House of Burgesses   First legislative body in the New World  
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Lord Baltimore   Catholic founder of Maryland  
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Act of Toleration   Protected all but Jews and Athesists  
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South Carolina   Colony with strong ties to the British West Indies  
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The "conversion"   An intense, personal experience when God revealed an individual’s heavenly destiny  
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Mayflower Comact   Agreement of self government based on majority rule  
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William Bradford   Pilgrim leader  
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Anne Hutchinson   Belived the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man  
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Roger Williams   Founder of Rhode Island  
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New England Confederation   Designed to increase colonial defenses  
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Headright system   Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America  
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Indentured servants   English yeoman who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called  
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Middle Passage   The brutal voyage across the Atlantic for African slaves  
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Half Way Covenant   Admitted to baptism but not full membership the unconverted children of existing members  
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New England economy   Shipbuilding, lumber, fishing  
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Scots-Irish   Poor immigrant farmers known for being strongly independent  
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Triangular trade   Economic endeavor involving sugar, rum, and slaves  
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"New light" preachers   Delivered emotional speeches  
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Benjamin Franklin   Known as the "first civilized American"  
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Great Awakening   First spontaneous mass movement in America  
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John Winthrop   Founder of Massachuetts  
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Thomas Hooker   Founder of Connecticut  
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Salem Witch Trials   Opposed by responsible members of the clergy  
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King Henry VIII   broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s, launching the English Protestant Reformation, and intensifying the rivalry with Catholic Spain.  
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Francis Drake   circumnavigated the globe, plundering and returning with his ship loaded with Spanish booty. He had a profit of about 4,600%.  
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Martin Luther   denounced the authority of the priests and popes when he nailed his protests against Catholic doctrines to the door of Wittenberg's cathedral in 1517.Bible alone was the source of God's words. He started the "Protestant Reformation."  
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John Calvin   of Geneva elaborated Martin Luther's ideas. He spelled out his basic doctrine in Latin in 1536, entitled Institutes of the Christian Religion. These ideas formed Calvinism.  
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King Henry VIII   broke his ties with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s, he formed the Protestant Church  
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Puritans   There were a few people who wanted to see the process of taking Catholicism out of England occur more quickly.  
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Separatists   A tiny group of Puritans broke away from the Church of England.  
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