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- 3. was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England, following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of immigrants from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years.
- 5. also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City.
- 10. served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.
- 11. was a member of the Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the native populations in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Squanto's former summer village.
- 14. a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s.
- 15. was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia.
- 17. an Act of the Parliament of England that sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown.
- 20. was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, Admiral of New England, and author. He played an important role in the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century.
- 22. was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
- 24. the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
- 25. re members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends or Friends Church.
- 26. settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the east bank of the Powhatan
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- 1. was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.
- 2. was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.
- 4. was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 6. were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.
- 7. was an English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.
- 8. a form of direct democratic rule, used primarily in portions of the United States – principally in New England.
- 9. an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, which is considered as the "Century of Philosophy".
- 12. a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.
- 13. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
- 16. is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm.
- 18. were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and needed to become more Protestant.
- 19. are the subset of laws regarding slavery and enslaved people, specifically in the Americas.
- 21. the international movement of people into a destination country of they are not natives
- 23. known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources.