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Thomas Hooker was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.

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a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.

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Roger Williams was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with American Indians, and he was one of the first abolitionists.

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Peter Stuyvesant; served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

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John Rolfe (1585-1622) was an English colonist who settled in Jamestown, Va., and pioneered in the cultivation of tobacco. ... His emigration to Virginia in 1609 was interrupted by a shipwreck on the newly discovered island of Bermuda. A child born to Rolfe's wife died while they were stranded in Bermuda.

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Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638

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The Virginia Company was a joint stock company that was approved by King James I to create new settlements in the colony of Virginia. A joint stock company is a business organization with which investors pooled money in order to purchase stock in a company.

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Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world's most popular food crops. In fact, these crops are often the basis for food staples. A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population's diet.

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A Christian belonging to one of the three great divisions of Christianity began during the Renaissance as a protest against the established church.

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Pilgrim a person who travels on long journeys.

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belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England.

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The Massachusetts Bay Company was a joint stock trading company by the English crown in 1629 to colonize a vast area in New England .

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A company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

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Dutch West India Company (was a chartered company (known as the "WIC") of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors.

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a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.

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A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

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The Church of England has been the official  church in England for about 450 years.

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local names for a cowboy (`vaquero'' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo'' is used especially in California)

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The Atlantic slave trade was the selling of African people as slaves by Europeans that happened in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century. ... Some were sold into slavery as punishment or to pay a debt, usually by other Africans.

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A pattern in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be changed into rum.

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the activity or process of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services. : the amount of things or services that are bought and sold : the money made by buying and selling things or services. : the act of exchanging one thing for another.

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A person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission missionaries who strove to convert natives to Christianity.

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The definition of Middle Passage was the route of the former slave trade of Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.

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A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country.

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A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease. Something harmful that spreads or develops rapidly a crime epidemic.

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All the physical surroundings on Earth are called theenvironment. The environment includes everything living and everything nonliving. ... People, animals, plants, and all other living things rely on the nonliving parts of the environment to survive.

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The encomienda system was a trusteeship system used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, whereby conquistadors were granted the towns of the indigenous people they conquered.

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A conquistador is a person who is out to conquer new territory.

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• a quarter of a circle

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The word patron comes from the Latin pater or patr- meaning "father." Think of how a father is supposed to financially support his kids. A patron of the arts is someone who shows his appreciation or support for the arts by donating money to arts organizations.

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The Northwest Passage goes through the icy Canadian waters. European traders needed a shortcut, so between the 15th century and 20th century they sent explorers to find the Northwest Passage, which is a sailing route that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through Canada.

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Mutiny is a when a group of people get together to openly oppose, change, or remove the people or person in authority. It usually means a group of soldiers trying to remove their officers, or a group of sailors on a ship trying to remove the captain. The group of people that mutiny are called mutineers.

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The earliest type of fore-and-aft sail was the triangular lateen sail. Fixed to a long yard, or crossbar, mounted at its middle near the top of a mast, the lateen sail was capable of taking the wind on either side.

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A  journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field".A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country. The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch".An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"

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The Spanish word for conqueror is conquistador. Many Spanish soldiers and explorers traveled to the Americas after Christopher Columbus made the first trip in 1492. These conquistadors sailed to the Americas to conquer the native peoples, to spread Christianity, and to look for gold and other treasure.

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A compass is a tool for finding direction. A simple compass is a magnetic needle mounted on a pivot, or short pin. The needle, which can spin freely, always points north. The pivot is attached to a compass card. The compass card is marked with the directions. To use a compass, a person lines up the needle with the marking for north. Then the person can figure out all the other directions.

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Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. This article is concerned with circumnavigation of the Earth.

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The Portuguese used caravels to explore the West African coast and the Atlantic Ocean. Lateen sails made the caravels fast and able to sail against the wind. Caravels were used by the Portuguese to explore oceans during the 15th and 16th centuries in the Age of Discovery. Jun 5, 2005 - Its economy, speed, agility, and power made the caravel as the best sailing vessel of its time.

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The astrolabe is a tool using the positions of the stars or sun. It was formerly used in navigation to help explorers and sailors figure out where they were. They found their the distance north and south of the equator by measuring the distance of the sun and stars above the horizon.

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a member of any of various American Indian peoples, including the Hopi, occupying pueblo settlements chiefly in New Mexico and Arizona. Their prehistoric period is known as the Anasazi culture.

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a natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual and adopted by it as an emblem.

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Teepee is a cone-shaped tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles. Modern tipis usually have a canvas covering.

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Teepee is a cone-shaped tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles. Modern tipis usually have a canvas covering.

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materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.

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The Iroquois longhouse were built to house 20 or more families. The Iroquois Indian tribe was actually a confederacy of six Native American nations. ... To build the Iroquois longhouse, the Indians set poles in the ground.

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Kivasa chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.

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Kivasa chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.

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The Iroquois have absorbed many other peoples into their tribes as a result of warfare, adoption of captives, and by offering shelter to displaced peoples.

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Ancient emperors held their peoples together with threats; offers of protection, jobs, and treasure; and the promise of divine intervention.

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1. denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of North American Indian languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains.

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The system of checks and balances is used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.Definition of checks and balances. : a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power.

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the act of amending or correcting. a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document

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The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.

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Definition of ratification. making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it.

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settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions

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A constitution is a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works.

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The system of rules and the people who make and administer them is known as a government.