According to Anasazi legend, this was a little man who traveled from village to village with a flute and a sack of corn. At night he would play his flute among the fields, and the people would awake to find the crops taller than ever before.

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1. A confederacy of North American peoples of southeastern Massachusetts who spoke the Algonquian language. They helped the settlers survive their first winter by providing them with much needed supplies.

What were some examples of the cultural misunderstandings between the British and Algonkian tribes? Why was this significant?

A tribe, nicknamed the Haudenosaunee, that inhabited modern day Ontario and Upstate New York. They consisted of five tribes and were known for their complex lifestyle, elaborate political system (This included a bicameral legislature), and longhouses. They were the most persistent military threat to the European settlers and have even been attributed to inspire some aspects of the structure of our own Constitution.

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The center of Iroquois life that housed many members of an Iroquois family.

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A name of one of the five tribes that compromised the Iroquois tribe. At one point the representatives of this tribe broke ties and had the power to veto decisions made by the others.

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Another name for the Iroquois tribe

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Refers to Spanish-controlled territories in North America. These territories included what would become the southwest United States, Florida, Mexico, Central America north of Panama, some West Indian islands, and the islands of the Philippines.

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A man involved in piracy and slave trading before entering into Queen Elizabeth's service as a "sea dog." He was also the second man to circumnavigate the globe.

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A motto enacted by John Smith during the "Starving Times" that required each colonist to work four hours a day farming or go without food.

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A person who worked for four to five years in the fields before being granted freedom. This group increased the population of the colony dramatically and contributed to the successful tobacco cultivation in the south.

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An important chiefdom comprised of 30 tribes living along Virginia's coastal plain united under the Supreme Chief Wahunsonacock. They had tense relations with the English settlers and eventually went to war with them thrice.

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Supreme Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy

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The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. This was significant for being the first elected representative government in Colonial America and the first legislative and democratic government in America.

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This man, also known as Lord Baltimore, founded Maryland in 1632 to grant religious freedom to the Catholics who remained in Anglican England.

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The name of England's Catholic queen that Maryland was named after

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This act granted religious freedom to all Christians. This act culminated in the first amendment in the bill of rights.

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A system used as incentive for planters to import workers. For each laborer brought across the Atlantic, the master was rewarded with 50 acres of land. This system was used by wealthy plantation aristocrats to increase their land holdings dramatically.

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A series of English settlements in North America that were established under the rule of King Charles II after the English Civil War. This is how the Carolinas were created

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Three major laws governed the experimental colony created by James Oglethorpe for people imprisoned due to debt.

The first dealt with the distribution of land. The second and third reflected Enlightened ideals.

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The original name of a Dutch colony currently known as New York.

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White men hired to monitor the work of plantation slaves. These men had less economic investment in the slave, and the enslaved people often bore the brunt of their resentment of the master's wealth, power, and privilege.

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An enslaved person enticed into holding the position of an overseer.

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The name of a free black person born in Maryland, 1731, who published one of America's earliest almanacs. His accomplishments in the distinction of science influenced how African Americans were viewed during the Federal period.

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A term used to refer to the act of the voluntary freeing of a slave by their master. This was usually done by masters as a reward for hard work or out of a guilty conscious. This was a rare act but not completely unseen in Colonial America.

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A well-known rebellion led by slaves originating in the north in 1712.

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A famous poet and slave who is known for her vivid writings depicting the slave experience on the eve of the American Revolution.

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The chief of the Wampanoags who signed a treaty of alliance with the Pilgrims in the summer. In exchange for assistance with defense against the feared Narragansett tribe, this chief supplemented the food supply of the Pilgrims for the first few years.

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The leader of Plymouth colony. After the first governor elected under the Mayflower Compact perished from the harsh winter, he was elected governor for the next thirty years. Under his guidance, Plymouth suffered less hardship than their English compatriots in Virginia. Relations with the local natives remained relatively smooth in Plymouth and the food supply grew with each passing year.

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What was it called when nearly 14,000 more Puritan settlers came to Massachusetts, and the colony began to spread? In 1691, Plymouth colony, still without a charter, was absorbed by their burgeoning neighbor to the West.

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A highly religious woman who was outspoken on her disagreement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony way of devotion. She believed the ministers of Massachusetts had lost their way. She thought the enforcement of proper behavior from church members conflicted with the doctrine of predestination. She asked simply: "If God has predetermined for me salvation or damnation, how could any behavior of mine change my fate?"

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After this man was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious and political beliefs, he settled Rhode Island, a place where religious tolerance was accepted.

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A form of public humiliation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where the guilty would sit in the public square for onlookers to laugh and spit at them.

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In 1639, the citizens of Connecticut enacted the first written constitution in the western hemisphere. This constitution called for an elected governor and a two-house legislature. It served as a model for other colonial charters and even future state constitutions after independence was achieved.

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Laws based on scripture that were applied to Connecticut residents. These laws condemned to death any citizen who was convicted of blaspheming the name of God or cursing their natural father or mother. These laws were in effect at least as late as 1672 in colonial Connecticut.

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The flourishing of scientific beliefs over traditional, religious ones in colonial America. Religious leaders began to emphasize the similarities of the Anglican Church and the Puritan Congregationalists over the differences. Harvard ministers became so liberal that Yale College was founded in New Haven in 1707 in an attempt to retain old Calvinist ideas. This attempt failed and the entire faculty except one converted to the Church of England in 1722. By the end of the century, many New England ministers would become [answer], doubting even the divinity of Christ.

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A religious revival in British American colonies between about 1720 and the 1740s sparked by the preachings of Jonathan Edawards. It was part of the religious ferment that swept western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century.

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The 18th-century policy of the British Crown of avoiding the strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, as long as the colonies remained loyal to the government and contributed to the economic growth of their parent country England.

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An early American flag that originated in South Carolina before the Revolution. It stated "Don't Tread On Me"

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A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of disgruntled citizens from the western part of Virginia in 1676. They felt their interests were not represented by Virginia's colonial legislature and that Governor Berkeley had done nothing to protect them from Indian raids. Over a thousand of Bacon's followers entered Jamestown and burned the capital city until Governor Berkeley's forces crushed them. This struck fear of further rebellion into the hearts of the members of the wealthy Virginia planting class.

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From 1765 to 1767 outlaws roamed the landscape holding local farmers at their mercy, but this band of vigilantes took the law into their own hands and pushed the outlaws away. These people did the same to local hunters who raised a force to fight back.

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A group of Scots-Irish settlers in Pennsylvania who marched in Philadelphia in 1764 to protest the Quakers' friendly Native American policy. They lived in Pennsylvania's hinterland and wanted both Native American land and protection from raids on their homes.

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This man was at the head of a non-violent rebellion where he spoke against the British as early as 1761, in his speech against the Writs of Assistance council chamber at Boston's Old State House.

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The fact that America was now becoming a diverse melting pot of different cultures and people of African, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German, French, Irish, Swedish, and Native American descent.

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This man led a group of French colonists through the mouth of the St. Lawrence River to found Quebec in 1608.

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Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order, who penetrated the wilderness in colonial America to find and convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

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The title of the judges who made the local political decisions of New France on behalf of the French king in place of an elected assembly like the colonies.

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The effects and importance of George Washington being a colonel in the British Army

He was appointed by King George II to be secretary of state, in charge of military affairs and colonial policy.

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identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. The first sign of this in the colonies was seen when settlers from all thirteen colonies lay down their lives together in battle. Likewise, the joy of victory was an American triumph. All could share in the pride of success. In many ways, the French and Indian War was a coming of age for the English colonies. They had over a century of established history. They had a flourishing economy.

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