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Anne Hutchinson: American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)
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Bacon's Rebellion: A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attemp to gain more land
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immagrants: people who left home country to go to live in another
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indentured servants: colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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Jamestown: First permanent English settlement in North America
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John Smith: English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
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John Winthrop: Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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Mayflower Compact: 1620 - 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.
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Olaudah Equiano: an antislavery activist who wrote an account of his enslavement
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Peter Stuyvesant: The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.
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Pilgrams: English settlers seeking religous freedom
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Pocahontas: a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)
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Puritans: Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization.
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Quakers: English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania
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slave codes: laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people
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Squanto: Native American who helped with relation between the natives and the Pilgrims.
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staple crops: crops that are always needed
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Toleration Act of 1649: est. religious toleration in Maryland; it meant free exercise of religious beliefs to anyone who believed in Jesus Christ
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William Penn: Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)