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- land bridge (Berengia) connected...
- Siberia and Alaska
- Marco Polo
- traveled for 17 years
- mercantilism
- "colonies exist for good mother country"
- Roanoke
- "the lost colony"
- John Smith
- governer of Jamestown
- Plymouth, Mass.
- pilgrams
- Jamestown
- first successful colony
- John Rolfe
- saved Jamestown with tobacco crop
- Mayflower Compact
- agreement to make laws and meet periodically; 1st participatory gov't
- Mass.
- puritans; settlers vote
- Rhode Island and Roger Williams
- freedom
- Pennsylvania
- quakers--society of friends
- Georgia and James Oglethorpe
- buffer coloney--slowed down spanish
- Navigation Acts
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-all colonial trade MUST be done on Eng. ships
-colonists must import ONLY from England
-certain colonial cash crops MUST go to Eng. - The Middle Passage
- journey for slave boats from Africa to America (slaves, gold, rum)
- Great Awakening
- people had turned away from God, preachers came in to try to revive Christianity
- better name for "French and Indian War"
- French and Native american vs. the Britich and Native American
- Ben Franklin
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-feared French power, desired unity
-THE ALBANY OF UNION (seed of union) - Pontiacs Rebellion
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Ottawa Chief Pontiac led attacks in Ohio Terr.
-British scared - Sugar Act
- 3 penny per gallon tax on molasses imports