Unit 1 study guide

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1. 1. A French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for his role in establishing Quebec.

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• Samuel de Champlain

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The harsh winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown, during which many colonists died of starvation.

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The starving time

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1. 6. A unified government imposed by King James II to tighten royal control over the American colonies.

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• Dominion of New England

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An Italian explorer credited with discovering the Americas in 1492 while seeking a westward route to Asia.

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Christopher Colombus

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A sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic, sought by explorers as a shortcut to Asia

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The Northwest Passage

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The founder of the colony of Maryland, which was intended as a refuge for English Catholics.

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Cecilius Calvert(Lord Baltimore)

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. A prominent religious dissenter in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was banished for her beliefs.

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Anne hutchinson

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English Separatists who established the Plymouth Colony in 1620, seeking religious freedom and a fresh start in the New World.

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The pilgrims

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An English adventurer who sponsored the first English colony in America, Roanoke.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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A significant slave rebellion in colonial South Carolina in 1739, leading to the tightening of slave codes and restrictions.

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The stono rebellion