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Jamestown
this was the first permanent English colony in the New World
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Mestize
This is the name for the new race created in the Spanish colonies
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Columbian Exchange
This is the name for the exchange of goods and animals between the Old World and the New
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Tobacco
This was "gold" found by the English colonies
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Maryland
This colony was founded as a refuge for English Catholics
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Pennsylvania
This colony was founded as a refuge for Quakers
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Puritans
These people wanted to get rid of all the Catholic ritual left in the Church of England
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Redemptionists
These people come to the English colonies and paid part of their passage then worked off the rest
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Jonathan Edwards
He saw people as "sinners in the hands of an angry God"
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Iroquois League
This group of Native Americans formed a League of nations around the Great Lakes
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Indentured Servants
These people came to the colonies and they worked to pay off their passage
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Proprietary
This type of colony was founded on land grants given to a man by the king
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Lysergic Acid
The Salem witch trials were really caused by this
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Anne Hutchinson
This person founded the Rhode Island colony
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Mayflower Compact
This document was the first written constitution in the English Colonies
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Roger Williams
This person founded the Connecticut colony
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George Whitefield
This Anglican clergyman was the most influential preacher in a religious revival movement
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Great Awakening
This was the name of a religious revival movement in the colonies
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Pilgrims
These people came to the colonies after a stay in the Netherlands
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Royal
This type of colony was ruled by a governor appointed by the king
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