What entities helped investors pool their money to support a settlement in the new world?
Joint Stock Companies
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What settlement was formed by 3 ships from the Virginia Company sailing up a coastal river?
Jamestown
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Under what system were workers lured to work in Jamestown with the promise of a paid voyage and 50 acres of land?
Headright System
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What group of people did John Smith persuade to provide his settlement with food?
The Powhatans
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What was the name of the high-quality tobacco that was mixed by John Rolfe to export to Europe?
Brown Gold
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What member of the Powhatan Nation married John Rolfe of Jamestown?
Pocahantas
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What entity served as the first representative body in America?
House of Burgess
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What Jamestown governor levied taxes on poor white settlers, creating hostility?
Sir William (Lord) Berkley
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Disgusted by the turmoil in Virginia in 1624, King James I revoked the joint stock company's charter, and made Virginia this?
Royal Colony
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Who made Nathanial Bacon (mattybraps??) rebel against Jamestown because they wouldn't support raising an Army to fight the Native Americans?
Governor Berkley
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The Puritans emigrated to create a new model society, unlike the Jamestown Colonists who were only interested in...
Profits
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_________, known as separatists, fled from England in 1620 to escape religious prosecution
Pilgrims
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______ was the second permanent English colony in North America
Plymouth
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony had _______ as its capital
Boston
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________ stated that the purpose of the their government in America was to frame , in part, "just and equal laws".
Mayflower Compact
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What stated that "Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God"?
Roger Williams
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Native Americans needed more land than the colonists to...
Hunt, Fish, and Farm
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What war resulted from English settlers invoking Puritan Laws on the Wampanoag Nation?
King Phillips War
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What Religious Leader was banished by the Puritans for preaching that worshipers didn't the need church to interpret the Bible for them?
Anne Hutchinson
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Clashes between settlers and Native Americans occurred, in part, because Native Americans did not recognize _______
Land Treaties
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______ was the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe
Columbian Exchange
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________ is the trade of raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, and slaves from Africa to the Americas
Triangular Trade
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_____ are unprocessed natural resources (like wood, cotton, food crops, and metals)
Manufactured Goods
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______ are crops grown on large farms in large amounts meant for trade, such as tobacco and sugar cane
Cash Crops
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_____ was the trip slaves were forced to take from Africa to the Americas. Conditions were horrible and many died of diseases, starvation, and abuse
Middle Passage
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______ was an economic practice of European colonial powers that used colonies for the benefit of the mother country
Mercantilism
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What were the original 13 colonies?
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island
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What were the original colonies divided into?
New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern
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What natural land barrier acted as a border for the colonies and prevented them from exploring the west?
The Appalachian Mountains
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What people were "half-way between slavery and freedom?"
Indentured Servants
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The main reason that food production differed among Native American societies was because of their ________.
Locations
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_____________ was a pyramid that ranked how developed a community was based on how many basic needs each community met.
Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs
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How long did people live in North America before Columbus?
10,000 years
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What did the Native Americans likely use to cross into North America?
The Bering Strait
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Excluding Hawaii and Alaska, the estimate for the Native American population before 1942 was ___________.
10 million to 100 million
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The first major conflict between the Native Americans and the colonists was the _______ War. 500-600 Native Americans died.
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