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Santa Fé
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Native Americans (Pueblo Indians) lived in Santa Fé, New Mexico but Spanish colonists tried to change their religion to Christianity
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Pope's Rebellion
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Pueblo Indian resistance against Spanish colonization and conversation of religion, led by Popé. But his rebellion failed and Indians were pushed to the periphery
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Frontiers of Inclusion
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Spanish and French intermarry with Native Americans
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Frontiers of Exclusion
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The Dutch and English were \"excluding\" the native Americans
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Joint Stock Companies
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A business whose capital is held in transferable shares of sock by its joint owners
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Virginia Company
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A group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in 1607
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Chesapeake Bay in 1607
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A group of London investors sent ships here and founded JAMESTOWN
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Jamestown
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Colonists come to here in search for gold and a passage to the Indies.. failing both of these conquests. But as more colonists arrive from England, the Powhatan realized that the colonists were not arriving in search for trade, but to invade...
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House of Burgesses
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The legislature of colonial Virginia. Grist organized in 1619, it was the first institution or representative government in the English colonies
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Maryland
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King Charles gave colony Maryland to first party of colonists to settle near Potomac River. First it was a proprietary colony and second it encouraged settlement by Catholic people
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Proprietary Colony
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A colony created when the English monarch granted a huge tract of land to an individuals, who became \"lords proprietor\"
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Indentured servants
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Individuals who contracted to serve a master for a period of four to seven years in return for payment of servant's passage to America
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Chesapeake Colonies
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Indentured Servants were a large part of this colony starting 1619. With a large population, the quality of the land was poor, with many civilian complaints. Nevertheless, Chesapeake was a growing region
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New England colonies
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The New England Colonies consisted of Virginians, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Indians, and Puritans. In the community women managed a lot of the housework as well as cooking and trading goods for cooking. The Salem Witch Trials, which took place in the New England colony, is a well knows historical moment. The ideal Puritan family in the New England colony was well ordered and strict in their way of living.
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Pilgrims
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Calvinists who believed the Church of England could not be reformed.
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Plymouth Colonies
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Plymouth was the first English colony in New England, founded by a group of religious dissenters known to later generations as the Pilgrims. The conditions at Plymouth were poor, and nearly half of the colonists perished over the first winter. They supported themselves by farming, but like all other colonies Plymouth needed a source of revenue to pay off their English investors
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Mayflower Compact
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The Mayflower Compact was signed in 1620, and established self- government in North America. Adults were urged by Pilgrim leaders to sign the compact
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Great Migration
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The migration in this period of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands of the West Indies, especially the sugar rich island of Barbados
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Puritans
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Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth's reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church. Puritans led the settlement of Massachusetts Bay colony.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay
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John Winthrop
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Winthrop was first elected governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and reelected a total of 12 times.
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Roger Williams
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Advocate for religious toleration
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Ann Hutchinson
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Voiced theological disagreements with Boston minsters
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Salem Witch Trials
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Women who were convicted of using witchcraft and then killed. A majority of the women who were killed were unmarried, childless, widowed or had reputations in their communities for assertiveness and independence or they came from Anglican, Quaker, or Baptist families. The Salem witchcraft scare may have reflected social tensions that found their outlet through an attack on people perceived as outsiders
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Pennsylvania
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Territory west of the Delaware River granted to William Penn in 1681, Penn supervised the establishment of Philadelphia in 1682, Penn, a Quaker saw the colony as a, \" holy experiment\"
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Quakers
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Members of the Society of Friends, a radical religious group that arose in the mid- seventeenth century. They rejected formal theology, focusing instead on the Holy Spirit that dwelt within them
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New York
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Charles II who once founded New Jersey, gave the former Dutch colony to his brother James then renaming it here.
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King Philip's War
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King Philip's War broke out in 1675, with the conflict between Wampanoag's creating thousands of settler and Indians deaths in the fighting
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Nathaniel Bacon embarked on unauthorized raids, freeing his slaves in attempt to appease the people. He died and the rebellion collapsed.
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Glorious Revolution
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As it came to be known, included a Bill of Rights, issued by the new monarchs at the insistence of Parliament, in which the promised to respect traditional civil liberties, to summon and consult with Parliament annually, and to enforce and administer its legislation
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How did conditions in New Spain and New France differ from Virginia and New England?
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New France was part of the frontier of inclusion for purposes of trading and assimilating with the Native Americans. They formed alliances with the Indians rather than conquering them and converting them. Whereas, new England and Virginia were interested in taking over Native American lands. Also the living conditions in Virginia were awful.
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What were the social and political values of Puritanism?
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Puritans were individual who believed in queen Elizabeth's reforms in the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the Church. Puritans led the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritans, who were followers of John Calvin wished to purify and reform the English church from within, grew increasingly influential during the last years of Elizabeth's reign at the end of the 16th century.
