Chapter 2 - Transplantations and Borderlands

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John Rolfe

________ produced crops of high quality and found ready buyers in England.

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Philadelphia

________ helped set the pattern for most later cities in America.

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Connecticut Valley

The ________, about 100 miles west of the edge of European settlement around Boston, began attracting English families as early as the 1630s.

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Sir William Berkeley

________ was appointed governor by King Charles I.

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Hutchinson

________ developed a large following among women, to whom she offered an active role in religious affairs Settlers and Natives.

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Headright System

________: to recruit new settlers and workers to the colony.

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1622

In ________, military officer Miles Standish established a semi- military regime to impose discipline on the settlers.

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New England

Council for ________: the successor to the old Plymouth Company, which had charter rights to the territory.

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America

For several decades, Carolina remained one of the most unstable English colonies in ________.

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Maryland

________ was founded under circumstances very different from those of Virginia.

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1609

In ________, a fleet of nine vessels from England was dispatched to Jamestown with approximately 600 people, including some women and children.

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Roundheads

________: the forces of Parliament, who were mostly Puritans.

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John Winthrop

________ and the other Massachusetts founders believed they were founding a holy commonwealth- a "city upon a hill- "that could serve as a model for the rest of the New World.

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Society of Friends

The ________ originated in mid- seventeenth- century England and grew into an important force.

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Roman Catholic

Puritans did not accept the authority of either the ________ hierarchy or the Church of England.

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Plymouth Rock

On December 21, 1620, the immigrants, called Pilgrims, stepped ashore at ________.

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smallpox epidemic

A(n) ________ caused by English carriers almost eliminated the Indian population in the areas around Plymouth in the early 1630s.

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Plymouth

The English demand for furs, animal skins, and meat greatly depleted the number of wild animals in the areas around ________.

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Headrights

________ were fifty- acre grants of land, which new settlers could acquire in a variety of ways.

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Strangers

________: people who were not full members of the Puritan church.

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England

The Quakers were unpopular enough in ________ as a result of these beliefs and practices.

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Tobacco

________ was the first profitable crop in the new colony for the settlers, and it encouraged ________ planters to move farther inland deeper into the natives farmlands.

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Caribbean settlements

The ________ were connected to the North American colonies in many ways The Southwestern Borderlands.

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African slavery

________ had taken root in Barbados earlier than in any of the mainland colonies.

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Nathaniel Bacon

________, a wealthy young graduate of Cambridge University, arrived in Virginia in 1673.

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source of sugar

Corn was also attractive to the settlers because its stalks could be a(n) ________ and because it spoiled less easily than other grains.

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Spanish Empire

The ________ claimed title to all the islands in the Caribbean.

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Caribbean

Before the arrival of Europeans, most of the ________ islands had substantial native populations- the Arawaks, the Caribs, and the Ciboney.

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Separatist founders

Unlike the ________ of Plymouth, the founders of Massachusetts had no intention of breaking from the Church of England.

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Jamestown settlers

The ________ came in three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery, and the Susan Constant.

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Maryland

Politics in ________ remained plagued for years by tensions between the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority.

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Plymouth

________: after the English port from which the Puritans had sailed.

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