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Conquistadores
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Financed several expeditions to America that settled in NC; failed; started the colony of Roanoke
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Jamestown
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First permanent English colony
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John Rofle
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Saved the first permanent settlement by teaching them how to grow tobacco
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John Smith
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Military Leader of the first colony; saved by Pocahontas
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Act of Toleration
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Maryland statute that granted religious freedom to all religions; both protestant and catholic
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House of Burgesses
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First Representative government in the New World
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Law of Primogeniture
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The right of the eldest child, especially the eldest son, to inherit the entire estate of one or both parents.
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Quakers
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Religious group that believed that all men and women were equal; believed in inner light; did not believe in fighting (pacifists)
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Salutary Neglect
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Colonists were allowed to develop on their own by England; Long-term development of the American Revolution
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Trade and Navigation Acts
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Stated that all goods had to be on British ships which had British soldiers and all goods had to first go through England
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Glorious Revolution
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English overthrow of James II in 1688;established victory of parliament over king;
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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First constitution in the colonies
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Roger Williams
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Puritan who broke away from the church; founded rhode island; concepts of freedom of religion and separation of church and state
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Anne Hutchinson
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Merican colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views
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