Unit 1: Colonization Foundations and People

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English dissenters who wanted to reform the Church of England by removing Catholic influences. They mostly settled in Massachusetts.

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Puritans

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Person traveling for religious reasons

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Pilgrim

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A person who disagrees with an official church

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Dissenter

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A negative factor that causes people to leave home country.

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Push Factor

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A positive factor that draws or attracts people to a new country.

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Pull factor

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climate and geography determine the cultures that develop

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Geographic Determinism

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A settlement ruled by another country

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Colony

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A nation that controls a colony

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Mother Country

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native to a certain area

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Indigenous

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They wanted to split from the Church of England; a group that went to America on a religious voyage and founded Plymouth Colony.

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Separatists