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The Columbian Exchange was a period of exchanges between the old and new worlds with plants, technology, and other items.
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Christopher Columbus made many voyages to Africa and other places until on one voyage he accidentally stumbled across America.
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Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer who played a big role in discovering the New World.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was an explorer who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his voyage to the New World.
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Sir Walter Raleigh was an English Explorer who was greatly favored by Queen Elizabeth I.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first document to be signed in America for self-government.
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Massachusetts Bay colony was an English settlement near the East Coast of North America.
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John Smith was an Englishman responsible for the settlement of Jamestown.
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established rules for governing some of the towns in Connecticut.
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The pequot war was a conflict between English colonists and the pequot tribe. The war ended with the pequot tribe losing.
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Anne Hutchinson was a participant in the Antinomian controversy, a religious and political controversy in Massachusetts.
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The Toleration Act was a law that passed allowing Christians freedom of religion.
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Indentured servants signed a contract agreeing to work as a slave for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia, food, shelter, and clothing.
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Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts because they were afraid he was spreading new and dangerous ideas.
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The Enlightenment allowed people to think for themselves and form their own views. Their ways of life were not so traditional anymore.
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A series of prosecutions of people accused of Witchcraft in Massachusetts.
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William Penn was an entrepreneur, philosopher and quaker. He founded the province of Pennsylvania.
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The Great Awakening allowed people to believe that they had a say in what they chose to believe in.
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Known as the seven years war, the French and Indian war was a conflict between Great Britain and France over territory of the new world.
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A time period in which millions of African Americans moved out of the south to northern regions.