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Exploration and Colonization Review

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First permanent English colony
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Colony that disappeared
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Government-sponsored settlement of a new land
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Nickname for the Separatists that founded Plymouth colony
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Trade routes by ship that carried goods and slaves between the Americas, Europe, and Africa
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A person who agreed to temporary slavery in exchange for passage to the colonies
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"Gold, God, and Glory" were the primary ______ for European exploration
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Native American woman who saved Jamestown by bringing colonists food and keeping the colonist-native relationship mostly peaceful
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Colony founded as a new start for debtors
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A document that gives a person the right to form a colony
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A crop grown not for food for the farmer, but to sell
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Religious group that founded Massachusetts Bay colony
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Rules that governed the behavior and punishment of enslaved people
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An agreement amongst the Pilgrim men to govern themselves; guiding example of self-government to the other colonies
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Large-scale farms that grew cash crops in the Southern colonies
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The middle leg of the triangular trade route, traveling from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas
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Most people in the Middle colonies were...
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The cash crop that made Jamestown successful
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A type of farming in which only enough food for the farmer's family is produced
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Colonies in which farming was difficult due to poor soil; shipbuilding and fishing were important industries