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4761014619ConquistadoresSpanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory.0
4761014620Pueblo PeopleSouthwest1
4761014621JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia.2
4761014622Chesapeake Colonies(Southern Colonies) included Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. Had a cash crop agriculture, slavery was important, mostly illiterate, Protestant, very isolated, high death rates and unstable families.3
4761014623MarylandCatholic Haven4
4761014624Spanish Treatment of Native AmericansTried to conquer them, and make them into laborers.5
4761014625French Treatment of Native AmericansViewed Native Americans as potential economic allies and traded with them.6
4761014626English Treatment of Native AmericansTried to expel natives, but sometimes cooperated with each other.7
4761014627PuritansA religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.8
4761014628SeparatistsEnglish Protestants who would not accept allegiance in any form to the Church of England. Included the Pilgrims and Quakers.9
4761014629Encomienda Systemsystem in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills.10
4761014630House of Burgesses1619 - The Virginia House of Burgesses formed, the first legislative body in colonial America. Later other colonies would adopt houses of burgesses.11
4761014631Mayflower Compact1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.12
4761014632CalvinistsFollowers of John Calvin. Doctrine was similar to that of Lutherans' except Calvinists also believed in *predestination* and the insignificance of humanity.13
4761014633Pope's RebellionAn Indian uprising in 1680 where pueblo rebels in an attempt to resist catholicism and Europeans all together destroyed every catholic church in the province and killed scores of priests and hundreds of spanish settlers.14
4761014634PlymouthColony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony. Established by Separatists.15
4761014635CongregationalistsPuritans who wanted to reform the Anglican church from within.16
4761016254indentured servantmaster paid for the passage over. Servant would be freed after 5-7 years.17

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