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Algonquian Indians
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People who inhabited the coastal plain of present-day Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay, when English colonists first settled the region.
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Antinomians
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Individuals who believe that Christians could be saved by faith alone and did not need to act in accordance with God's law as set for in the Bible. Puritan leaders considered this belief to be a heresy.
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Antifederalists
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Opponents of ratification of the Constitution. Antifederalists feared that a powerful and distant central government would be out of touch with the needs of citizens. They also complained that the Constitution failed to guarantee individual liberties in a bill of rights.
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Archaic Indians
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Hunting and gathering peoples that descended from Paleo-Indians and dominated the Americas from 110,000 BP to between 4000 and 3000 BP
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Articles of Confederation
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The written document defining the structure of the government from 1781 to 1788 under which the union was a confederation of equal states, with no executive and limited powers, existing mainly to foster a common defense.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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An unsuccessful rebellion against the colonial government in 1676, led by frontier settle Nathaniel Bacon, that arose when increased violence between Indians and colonists pushing westward was met with government refusal to protect settlers or allow them to settle Indian lands.
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Barbados
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Colonized in the 1630s, this island in the British West Indies became an enormous sugar producer and a source of wealth for England. The island's African slaves quickly became a majority of the island's population despite the deadliness of their work.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Second battle of the Revolutionary War, on June 16, 1775, involving a massive British attack on New England militia units on a hill facing Boston. The militiamen finally yielded the hill, but not before inflicting heavy casualties on the British
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Battle of Saratoga
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A multistage battle in New York ending with the decisive defeat and surrender of British general John Burgoyne on October 17, 1777. France was convinced by this victory to throw its offical support to the American side in the war.
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