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The British commander who sent his troops to capture Patriot supplies in Concord in April 1775 was General
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Thomas Gage
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Under its policy of mercantilism, the British Monarchy
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Gained power from increased import duties that added to the royal treasury
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Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal was noted for
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Supervising voyages searching for a way around Africa to Asia
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By the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Spain had authority to exploit all of
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North and South America except Brazil
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The Virginia colonist John Rolfe
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Introduced tobacco production in the colony
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Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, established that colony as a haven for
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Catholics, but ordered toleration for Protestants
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Showed how dissastisfied the western settlers of Virginia had become with the emerging planter-merchant elite
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When they settled in the New World, the Puritans
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Pictured themselves as a select few chose by God to preserve true Christianity in America
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New York was an English Colony because the English
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Captured the area from the Dutch
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The "headright" was commonly used in the southern colonies and some of the middle colonies to
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Award tracts of land to new arrivals in the colonies
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______ servants agreed to work for a stated period in return for their transportation to America
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Indentured
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The great staple of the Viriginia colonial economy
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Tobacco
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Bacon's Rebellion occured in
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Virginia
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James Oglethorpe
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The leader of the group of philantropists who founded Georgia
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The British government's primary concern in establishing Georgia was
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Placing a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida
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