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Charter
What is Certificate of permission given by the government.
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What was the Crop that saved Virginian colonist from falling completely?
What is Tobacco
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Who was Powhatan?
What is the chief of the Powhatan people and father of Pocahontas.
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What is Mercantilism
What is mercantilism held a limited supply of wealth in the form of natural resources.
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King Philips war
What is 1675–1676 was an early and bloody conflict between English colonists and Native Americans
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Joint-Stock Company
What is Company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses.
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What was the Virginia Company?
What is The Virginia Company was formed with a charter from King James I in 1606. The Company was a joint stock corporation charged with the settlement of Virginia. It had the power to appoint the Council of Virginia, the Governor and other officials, and the responsibility to provide settlers, supplies, and ships for the venture.
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Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
What is Leader of the Bacon Rebellion organization.
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What did Enslaved African bring with them to America?
What is the arts and crafts skills of their various tribes.
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Why was Rhode Island founded?
What is was founded by religious dissenters from Massachusetts who were more tolerant of different religious beliefs
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Haven
What is a safe place.
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How where the Native American a key factor in the Colonist survival?
What is helped the Colonist during the difficult times period by giving the colonist food to survive.
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Who was William Penn
What is founder of Pennsylvania.
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What was the Middle Passage
What is the triangle trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
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What were the reasons for French settlement of Quebec
What is France, like its European rival, Great Britain, settled colonies to secure the valuable natural resources of North America and export them to Europe. Quebec was the first permanent French settlement in North America
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Indentured Servant
What is a person who agrees to work for another person for a certain amount of time, under a contract, in exchange for food transportation and shelter.
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What was Bacons Rebellion?
What is a private army who fought Native Americans to take their land.
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Who was Benjamin Franklin?
What is one of Americas Founding Father.
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What region had a large percentage of slavery?
What is the South.
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What was the Massachusetts Charter?
What is • 1630 thousands English settlers braved a voyage across the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, located north of the plymouth colony in New England •Royal charter, granted by England's king William III, that formally united the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, and Maine into the royal colony of Massachusetts. Replacing the earlier royal charter granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, which had been revoked in 1684, the charter also provided for a crown-appointed governor, a council to be elected by the General Court subject to the governor's veto, the abolishment of church membership as a requirement for suffrage, royal review of legislation, and appeals to the king in council.
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Salutary Neglect
What is Great Britain’s early policy in the early 1700s of not interfering in the American colonies politics and economy as long as such neglect served British economic interest
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What is the House of Burgesses?
What is Virginia Legislature formed in 1619
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Who was Jonathan Edwards?
What is A Minister that would preach during the Great Awakening.
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What was the Great Awakening?
What is Ministers said people would feel God’s love only if they admitted their sins. People were told that each believer should seek his or her own personal and emotional relationship with God, and that doing this was more important than the Puritan idea of congregations gathering together to hear intellectual sermons.
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What where the Salem Witch Trials?
What is 1692 several girls and young woman's in Salem Mass. claim that the devil had taken control of them. They also accused the townspeople of being witches. Trials were held to determine if the townspeople were really witches
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