Chapter 6: Early Contact with the New World (1491– 1607) and Colonization of North America (1607–1754)

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Roger Williams
\________, a minister in Salem Bay settlement, taught that church and state should be separate.
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Anne Hutchinson
\________ was a woman in a resolutely patriarchal society which turned many against her.
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North America
\________ was populated by Native Americans, not to be confused with native- born Americans.
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Indian War
French played a significant role in the French and \________ (1754- 1763) but overall had a much lighter impact on native peoples compared to Spanish and English.
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Aztecs
\________ and Maya are noted for their advances in astronomy, architecture, and art.
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Tisquantum Squanto
\________, an inhabitant of the village, was captured and brought to Europe as enslaved person.
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Virginia Company
In 1618, the \________ introduced the headright system as a means of attracting new settlers to the region and addressing the labor shortage created by the emergence of tobacco farming.
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English
Intermarriage was common between Spanish and French settlers and the natives in their colonized territories (though rare among \________ and Dutch settlers)
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1619
In \________, Virginia established the House of Burgesses, in which any property- holding, white male could vote.
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1620
In \________, Separatists set sail for Virginia on the Mayflower, but went off course and landed in modern- day Massachusetts.
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Penn
\________ made a treaty with the Delawares to take only as much land as could be walked by a man in three days.
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New England
Slavery was rare in \________, but farms in middle and southern colonies were much larger, requiring large numbers of enslaved Africans.
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Charles II of England
In 1664, \________ waged war against the Dutch Republic and captured New Netherland.
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England
\________ regulated trade and government in its colonies, but interfered in colonial affairs as little as possible.
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South Carolina
\________ had a larger proportion of enslaved Africans than European settlers.
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Molasses Act
\________ of 1733, imposed an exorbitant tax upon the importation of sugar from the French West Indies.
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Jamestown
\________ was funded by a joint- stock company, a group of investors who bought the right to establish New World plantations from the king.
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William Penn
\________, a Quaker, received colony as a gift from King Charles II.
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Dutch Republic
\________ was largest commercial power of the century and economic rival of the British.
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Columbus arrival
\________ initiated a long period of European expansion and colonialism in the Americas.
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College of William
\________ and Mary was chartered in the South in 1693.
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Nathaniel Bacon
\________, a recent immigrant, rallied the farmers and demanded Governor William Berkeley grant him authority to raise a militia and attack nearby tribes.
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West Indies
Colonies were important mostly for economic reasons, which is why the British considered their colonies in the \________ more important than their colonies on the North American continent.
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Navigation
\________ Acts passed between 1651 and 1673, required colonists to buy goods only from England, sell certain of their products only to England, and import non- English goods via English ports and pay a duty on those imports.
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Edwards
\________ preached severe, predeterministic doctrines of Calvinism.
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Aztec
In the year 1500, the \________ capital of Tenochtitlan was more populous than any city in Eur