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Puritans believed in these core principles,

Judgmental God (rewards good/punishes evil)

Predestination/Election (salvation or damnation was predetermined by God)

Original Sin (humans are innately sinful, tainted by the sins of Adam & Eve; good can be accomplished only through hard work & self-discipline)

Providence and God's Grace

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The Salem Witch Trials began because teenage girls where acting like they where possessed by the devil, and accused multiply women of witch craft.

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100 people imprisoned
19 people died
In the end the girls admitted it was a lie

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"The triangle trade was transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas, cotton and other raw materials from the Americas to Europe, and textiles and other manufactured goods from Europe to West Africa"

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The triangle trade impacted Europe economic development

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The middle passage was the journey that millions of enslaved africans where forced to take across the atlantic ocean to the New World

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around 12.5 million enslaved africans made the trip, around 1.8 million died on the voyage

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slaves would commit suicide because they would so misabrel. would starve themselves

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Jamestown was the first successful english settlement

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In their first winter over half of the colonists died due to illness, starvation, hyperthermia, ect

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did not have a good relationship with the native americans(powhatans)

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Plymouth was the first Puritan settlement

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The Puritans that voyaged to the new land where escaping religious persecution.

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Where originally headed for Jamestown but took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in Massachusetts

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Had a good relationship with the Native Americans

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Stared a new tradition "Thanksgiving"

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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who voyaged across the Ocean 4 times

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He explored the Americas

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Columbus never stepped foot on New day america he found caribbean countries such as San Salvador(The Bahamas)

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He destroyed 2 civalvations