4 Areas Pushing Western Europe Forward - ANSWER Religion / Economics / Arms Race
/ Centralized Gov.
Specie - ANSWER coined money, usually gold or silver, used to back paper money
1517 - ANSWER Reformation
Most Powerful Protestant Country - ANSWER England
Who set up the colonies originally? What Year? - ANSWER Private Companies / 1603
Virginia Company - ANSWER Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter
for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in
England.
Jamestown - ANSWER The first permanent English settlement in North America (1607)
1612 - ANSWER Tobacco production established in Virginia
Colonial System of Government - ANSWER Governor / Council / House of Burgesses
1622 - ANSWER Indian Massacre
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, Indentured Servants - ANSWER 7 Years leads to freedom in the US
1558 - ANSWER Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
1620 - ANSWER Separatists move to Plymouth (Mayflower)
1625 - ANSWER Charles I becomes king of England
1629 - ANSWER Great Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay
1630 - ANSWER Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts - ANSWER Representative Government / Congregational Church /
"Saved"
1636 - ANSWER Harvard founded
Roger Williams - ANSWER He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and
State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Predestination - ANSWER the belief that what happens in human life has already been
determined by some higher power
1685 - ANSWER James II becomes king of England
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/ Centralized Gov.
Specie - ANSWER coined money, usually gold or silver, used to back paper money
1517 - ANSWER Reformation
Most Powerful Protestant Country - ANSWER England
Who set up the colonies originally? What Year? - ANSWER Private Companies / 1603
Virginia Company - ANSWER Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter
for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in
England.
Jamestown - ANSWER The first permanent English settlement in North America (1607)
1612 - ANSWER Tobacco production established in Virginia
Colonial System of Government - ANSWER Governor / Council / House of Burgesses
1622 - ANSWER Indian Massacre
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, Indentured Servants - ANSWER 7 Years leads to freedom in the US
1558 - ANSWER Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
1620 - ANSWER Separatists move to Plymouth (Mayflower)
1625 - ANSWER Charles I becomes king of England
1629 - ANSWER Great Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay
1630 - ANSWER Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts - ANSWER Representative Government / Congregational Church /
"Saved"
1636 - ANSWER Harvard founded
Roger Williams - ANSWER He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and
State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Predestination - ANSWER the belief that what happens in human life has already been
determined by some higher power
1685 - ANSWER James II becomes king of England
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