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- 1. the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
- 3. an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 9. the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened
- 10. a group of English people who came to America seeking religious freedom during the reign of King James I.
- 11. a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
- 13. a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
- 18. Indentured servants 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
- 20. Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world's most popular food crops
- 21. 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.
- 22. 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
- 24. settlement in the colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
- 25. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country
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- 2. an act that the Parliament of England passed on December 16, 1689.
- 4. 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
- 5. a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox c. 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles.
- 6. a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s.
- 7. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
- 8. 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.
- 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.
- 12. a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
- 14. a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir
- 15. state laws established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
- 16. the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.
- 17. North American Indian princess, daughter of Powhatan, an Algonquian chief in Virginia.
- 19. a meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business.
- 23. English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)