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History of the Americas
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- James Oglethorpe envisioned _____ as a military buffer against New Spain and a utopian community for England's "worthy poor".
- _________, as embraced by the Puritans, emphasized human powerlessness before an omniscient God and stressed the idea of predestination (the belief that God selected a few chosen people for salvation while everyone else was predestined to damnation).
- Henry VIII's marriage to _________, and the alliance it represented, forestalled English colonization in the Americas for a time.
- During the reign of Elizabeth I, _________ claimed a vast New-World territory that he called Virginia.
- In the wake of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Charles II granted __________ to his brother.
- The _______ migrated to America mostly in family units which lent stability to their prosperous Massachusetts Bay colony.
- Puritans worked to erase all vestiges of __________ from the Church of England.
- New Amsterdam, modern New York City, became known as its _____________.
- Many early immigrants to the _______ colony came from the English sugar island of Barbados.
- ______ ranged far afield, asserting French claims as far south as the Texas Gulf Coast.
- Slavery proved slow to impact England's North American colonies, with __________ supplying much of the agricultural labor.
- ______ agreed to work for a fixed period of time to repay the cost of their transportation to America.
- Envisioned as a refuge for English Catholics, _________ eventually joined Virginia as a prosperous tobacco colony.
- Persectued for their beliefs, _______ fled first to Barbados and, after its founding, to Pennsylvania.
- Despite its location on a low-lying peninsula along the James River, ______ endured as the first successful English colony in North America.
- Under the leadership of ________, Portugal excelled at exploration and trade but established few permanent settlements.
- Which of the following was not a goal of Spanish exploration?
- ________, the first attempt to colonize Raleigh's Virginia, disappeared without a trace.
- The ______, separatists fleeing the state-run Church of England, drafted the Mayflower Compact as the foundation for a new colonial government.
- Once it took root, chattel slavery defined the enslaved population as _________.