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Dutch West India Company

• founded in 1621 mainly to carry on economic warfare against Spain and Portugalby striking at their colonies in the West Indies and South America and on the west coast of Africa.

• formed both to bring profit to its shareholders and to establish an English colony in the New World.

• economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers.

• leader of the Wampanoag, an Indigenous group

Roanoke

• first attempt by the English to establish a colony in the Americas. Unfortunately, the colony failed when the settlers disappeared under mysterious circumstances giving the colony the nickname the "Lost Colony."

• first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia.

• Belief in God based on reason rather than revelation or the teaching of any specific religion

• To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed taxes, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Jamestown

• first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia

• required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards

• passed by the U.S. Congress under the Articles of Confederation. It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold. The method of creating townships and sections within townships was used for all U.S. land after 1785

• formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen; they also agreed to form the Continental Association, which called for the suspension of trade with Great Britain.

The Virginia Company

• was a joint-stock company chartered by King James I in 1606 to establish a colony in North America.

• British defeated the Americans. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost during the Siege of Boston.

• European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview

• a group of measures primarily intended to punish Boston for rebellion against the British government

John Smith

• English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement

• an English statesman who projected the founding of the North American province of Maryland, in an effort to find a sanctuary for practicing Roman Catholics.

• Virginian lawyer and politician, who played a vital role in the American Revolution. He is best known for his Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death speech

• the American theologian and philosopher who led the Great Awakening and defended Calvinist doctrine

Pocahontas

• Powhatan Native American woman known for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia

• an influential Puritan spiritual leader in colonial New England who challenged the religious doctrines of her time.

mercantilism

• economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers

• Adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution.

• first published in 1776, that became a foundational study in the history of economics and the first formulation of a comprehensive system of political economy.

House of Burgesses

• established in 1619 in the Virginia Colony,  was the first elected representative government in America.

• a land grant program that allowed investors to acquire land by paying for people to immigrate to the colonies to work on plantations.

• the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.

Sir George Calvert

• an English statesman who projected the founding of the North American province of Maryland, in an effort to find a sanctuary for practicing Roman Catholics.

• Virginian lawyer and politician, who played a vital role in the American Revolution. He is best known for his Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death speech

• -the American theologian and philosopher who led the Great Awakening and defended Calvinist doctrine

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• a land grant program that allowed investors to acquire land by paying for people to immigrate to the colonies to work on plantations.

• a group of measures primarily intended to punish Boston for rebellion against the British government

• imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War

• the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source.