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Columbus' voyage was funded by the King and Queen of Spain. He set out with three ships to find a new trading route to the Indies. He died believing he found the Indies and did not know he had descovered a new world, Though he did not find the Indies, his most important finding was that the winds of the Atlantic blow in a clockwise direction.
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The Protestant Reformation was a movement led by Martin Luther to reform the Catholic church. The new ideas brought about divided christians and reshaped the politcal and religious values in Europe. It also led to modern concepts of Democracy.
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Led people to realize that Columbus was not the first to descover and land on the new world
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First English colony in new world.
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This settlement helped defend the St. Lawrence River which was important to their trade
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Tobacco is what kept virginia alive, it was the main export, and since it demmanded much labor to cultivate it increased importance for indentured servants or slaves.
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This ended the first Anglo-Powhatan war. (1610-1614)
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This increased immigration from Europe
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First type of representative government in the new world and was the first step towards democracy
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Natives were dying off and slavery of African Americans became important to tend to the sugar and tobacco plantations
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failed to succeed economically but encouraged other puritans to follow in their path such as John Winthrope.
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led to the second Anglo-Powhatan war
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The one of the English chartered colonization companies not subject to the control of a board of governors in England. Changed its emphasis on trade to that of religion.
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educated puritan ministers
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only accepted christian denomination, other religions were still excluded
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began a developing conflict between back woods frontiers and the settled fronteirs on the coast.
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Has good relations with natives and creates an acceptance of religion in his colony making it the most efficient colonization effort of the seventeenth century
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Created an elected parliment, step towards democracy
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Many girls died and it showed how critical the puritans were especially towards women.
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Brought people back to their traditional ideas and made religion more important again
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a war was to follow
