Week 1 APUSH IDs

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Virginia Company & Jamestown

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This is a joint-stock company chartered by King James I of England; this established the first permanent English colony in America in Jamestown in 1607

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House of Burgesses 1619

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Virginia/First legislature in Americas

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Pilgrims & Puritans

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Settled in Massachusetts in search of religious freedom.

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Mayflower Compact (1620)

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The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

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City Upon a Hill

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A phrase that is associated with John Winthrop's sermon "A Model of Christian Charity," given in 1630. Winthrop warned the Puritan colonists of New England who were to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony that their new community would be a "city upon a hill," watched by the world.

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Great Migration 1631-1640

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The Great Migration saw 80,000 people leave England, roughly 20,000 migrating to each of four destinations: Ireland, New England, the West Indies, and the Netherlands

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Anne Hutchinson & antinomianism

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She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.

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Roger Williams & Rhode Island

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1635 - He left the Massachusetts colony and purchased the land from a neighboring Indian tribe to found the colony of Rhode Island. Rhode Island was the only colony at that time to offer complete religious freedom.

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639

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First constitution in written history (1639). Established a representative government made up of a legislature elected by the people and a governor chosen by the legislature.

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New England Confederation 1643

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Weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut led by Puritans for the purposes of defense and organization, an early attempt at self-government during the benign neglect of the English Civil War.