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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 was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.

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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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Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively between 800 million and more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians. It originated with the 16th century Reformation, a movement against what its followers perceived to be errors in the Roman Catholic Church.

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a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

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the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

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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, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England.

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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

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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 of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors. Among its founders was Willem Usselincx.

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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 established church of England for about 450 years.

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(in Spanish-speaking parts of the US) a cowboy; a cattle driver.

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

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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.

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

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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 within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract to work for a particular employer for a fixed time.

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a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

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

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

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a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

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An instrument used for taking angular measurements of altitude in astronomy and navigation, typically consisting of a graduated quarter circle and a sighting mechanism.

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Generally, patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege and often financial aid given by a person or an organization.

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The Northwest Passage is sea passage along the north coast of North America. Because of ice, the passage is usually closed to ships.

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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.

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A triangular sail on a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

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An expedition usually means a long journey or voyage done for a specific purpose.

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Conquistador was a Spanish soldier, explorer and adventurer. The Conquistadors invaded and conquered much of the American and the Philippines Islands and other islands in Asia Pacific.

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Is a navigational tool that uses magnetism. It has an arrow which points in the direction of the North Magnetic Pole.

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Circumnavigation originally meant going around something, by ship. Usually, people go around the world

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a type of small sailing ship. It is easy to maneuver

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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.

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An object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry also : a usually carved or painted representation of such an object

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a conical tent usually consisting of skins and used especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.

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a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States. a city in Colorado south of Colorado Springs. a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock

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A natural resource is something that is found innature and can be used by people. Earth's natural resources include light, air, water, plants, animals, soil, stone, minerals, and fossil fuels.

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The Iroquois were a League or Confederacy of tribes in the Northeastern part of America. Originally they were formed by five tribes: the Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Oneida. ... The French named them the Iroquois, but they called themselves the Haudenosaunee which means People of the Longhouse.

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a Pueblo Indian ceremonial structure that is usually round and partly underground

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a league of Irquoise tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations

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a group of territories or peoples under one ruler the Roman empire, and a country whose ruler is called an emperor

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a group of American Indian people of southeastern Ontario and southern Quebec or their language.

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counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.

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Thirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789.

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

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sign or give consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement

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Compromise occurs when two parties come to an agreement by each offering to meet somewhere in the middle.

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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.