Farley unit test
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jenkinsrules on December 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Great Migration | Puritans over a decade came to America, over 20,000 came |
| Mayflower Compact | Government and majority rule, forming a loose government, self government |
| John Winthrop | MBC, governor of MBC colony |
| Thomas Hooker | Founder of Connecticut, led group of Puritans South, thought that MBC was too strict |
| Roger Williams | thought church and government should be separate, banished and starts Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | starts prayer group ,accused of heresy, starts Rhode Island |
| New Amsterdam | A dutch colony taken over by english to become New York |
| New Netherlands | dutch |
| Proprietary colony | a colony where private landowners have rights to the land, can rent out or sell New Jersey |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania, got huge land grant from the king |
| Quakers | residents of pennsylvania, pacifists, split from MBC for religious freedom |
| House of Burgesses | first example of House of Represenatives, early congress |
| Lord Baltimore | founder of maryland, given land grant |
| Toleration Act | guaranteed toleration of all Christians |
| James Oglethorpe | founded georgia, started as a place for debtors |
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