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Thomas Hooker was a prominent Puritan ( puritans are members of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify it.) colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts.

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

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Roger Williams was a political and religious leader best remembered for his strong stance on the separation of church and state and founding the colony of Rhode Island.

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Peter Stuyvesant, also known as Petrus Stuyvesant, is an important figure in the history of New York City [earlier New Amsterdam, New York State and New Netherland because he   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 introduced tobacco to Jamestown and married Pocahontas, the daughter of the Algonquin chief, Powhatan. He was born in England and migrated to the Virginia colony in 1610.

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Anne Hutchinson was famous as one of the early colonists of the Massachusetts Colony who was banished from Boston in 1637 for her religious beliefs and fled to the Rhode Island Colony.

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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.

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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.

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King Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church. He created a new, official Protestant church in the 1530s. It was called the Church Of England , or the Anglican Church.

Not all Protestants in England agreed with the teachings of the Anglican Church. Some people thought the Anglican Church was too much like the Catholic Church. They wanted to purify or cleanse the church. For that reason, they were called Puritans.

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Pilgrims are people  who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

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Mercantilism is the belief that a country’s economic strength comes from exporting more than it imported. To export is to sell goods in another country. To import is to buy goods from another country. Every country wanted more exports than imports. That was not possible, however. As a result, countries competed with each other.

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They named their new colony New Plymouth and drew up the Mayflower Compact, an agreement to govern their colony. The Mayflower Compact was written with the idea that a government's authority to rule is based on a contract between that government and the people to be ruled.  It was an important influence on the development of representative government in the colonies.

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About 1,000 Puritans left England. They moved to an area claimed by the Massachusetts Bay Company and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop was the group’s leader. They first arrived in Salem, Massachusetts. Then they moved their colony a little south, to present-day Boston.

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A joint-stock  company's stock is owned by stockholders. the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion. Therefore, joint-stock companies are commonly known as corporations or limited companies.

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The Dutch West Company that created colonies in the Caribbean and Brazil.

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Commodity is a agricultural  product that can be bought and sold.

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A colony is a  group of people living in a foreign country or a country. Colonies provided natural resources to their home countries. For example, colonists harvested New England’s large pines to make masts for ships. Colonists also created plantations.

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

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A mounted livestock herder of a tradition that originated on the Iberian Peninsula. Today the vaquero is still a part of the doma vaquera, the Spanish tradition of working riding. The vaquero traditions developed in Mexico from methodology brought to Mesoamerica from Spain and became the foundation for the North American cowboy.

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A system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Used to refer to the trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities, which were in turn shipped back to Britain.

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Transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.

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The action of buying and selling goods and services.

synonyms: | commerce, buying and selling, dealing, traffic, trafficking, business, marketing, merchandising.

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An important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel.

"A trade mission to Mexico"

synonyms: | assignment, commission, expedition, journey, trip, undertaking, operation

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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

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An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed time.On completion of the contract, indentured servants were given their freedom, and occasionally plots of land.

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relating to or of the nature of an epidemic.

Synonyms:  rampant, widespread, wide-ranging, extensive, pervasive.

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The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

Synonyms: | habitat, territory, domain.

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A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring (bestow) the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

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An adventurer or conqueror, especially  one of the Spanish conquerors of the New World in the 16th century.

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One-fourth of a circle. Or any of the four parts into which something is divided by two imaginary or real lines that intersect each other at right angles.

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A patron of a business supports the business by being a loyal customer. A patron of the arts helps support starving artists — financially, not with food rations. The word patron comes from the Latin pater or patr- meaning "father." Think of how a father is supposed to financially support his kids.

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A  water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906)

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Disobeying or fighting against the leaders in charge; open rebellion against lawful authority. Synonyms: rebellion, uprising similar words: revolt.

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Being or relating to a rig used especially on the north coast of Africa and characterized by a triangular sail extended by a long spar slung to a low mast.

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A journey  undertaken for a specific purpose or the group of persons making such a journey

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A conquistador is a person who is out to conquer new territory. A conquistador was the name given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portuguese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas.

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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.

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To go completely around especially by water, the earth also : to go around instead of through

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A two- or three-masted sailing ship, one with a broad beam and lateen rig that was used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries

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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. Astronomers used other kinds of astrolabes, usually larger ones.

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Algonquian is the name of a family of Northeast Native American languages. Its speakers include the Penobscot, Massachuset, Mohican, Shawnee, Miami, and Illinois tribes. Collectively these tribes are called Algonquin. The names of some Algonquian-speaking tribes later became the names of American cities and states.

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an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

like "the Roman Empire"

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Deganwidah and Hiawatha joined together and went from tribe to tribe. They convinced each tribe about the importance of peace and unity. They convinced the five tribes to form the Indian confederation called the Iroquois League. When the Europeans arrived, the Iroquois were a strong nation.

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kiva is a room used by Puebloans for religious rituals and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies.

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he Iroquois longhouse were built to house 20 or more families. The Iroquois Indian tribe was actually a confederacy of six Native American nations. ... They actually called themselves Haudenosaunee, which meant “people who live in the extended longhouses.” The Iroquois lived in a type of dwelling known as a longhouse.

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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.Such as water,air and sunlight.

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Pueblo comes from the Spanish word for “village.” The Pueblo Indian emerged around 100 CE. This group settled in the region that spanned from central Utah to northern Mexico. One important cultural legacy of the group was the creation of stone buildings known as pueblos. Pueblos were community buildings made from adobe, a mixture of clay, straw, and water. Some pueblos were large enough to house an entire community. Rooms within the pueblos were square with a flat roof. Pueblos consisted of multiple levels connected by ladders, so people could move from one story to the next. Most rooms did not have windows or doors. In addition to providing housing for families, pueblos also had community rooms and kivas. Kivas were special chambers, usually built partially underground, used for ceremonial purposes. Ne

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A tepee was a cone-shaped tent used by some Native American groups for shelter. This type of housing was most common in the Plains region of the United States. The women in the tribe were responsible for building and maintaining the tepees. epees were built from wooden poles arranged in tripod formation, with animal skins and other natural materials wrapped around the poles. The entrance to the tepee was a closeable flap. The top of the tepee also had a flap, which was used to let out smoke from the central fire. Additional animal hides provided the flooring and bedding.

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According to the beliefs of Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest and parts of Canada, a totem is a guardian or ancestor that watches over people. A specific totem, such as a bear, might have significance for a certain family or individual. Although totems were not always worshipped, the people did respect and revere them.The specific totem(s ) used and their position on a pole had symbolic meaning.The size of the pole might also reveal something about the wealth of the family: the larger the pole, the wealthier the family

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The system of checks and balances is used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch and also its also a system that allows the government to amend or veto acts of other branches.

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Any group of people living together in a country, state, city, or local community that has to live by certain rules. The system of rules and the people who make and administer them is known as a government.

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Is a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works. It also may tell what the branches of the government are, what powers they have, and how they work. It may also state the rights of citizens.

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A way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something that was wanted in order to end an argument or dispute. Also something that combines the qualities of two different things.

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making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

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he first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.

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A minor change in a document, a change or addition to the Constitution was  The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution witch  is are called the Bill of Rights.