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Question 1.
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of Portugal sponsored improvements in navigation and voyages of exploration in the fifteenth century.  

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Contact with Europeans proved disastrous for the Native Americans; their populations were decimated by European . 

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Question 3.
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The primary organizing force for early English colonization in the New World were who, as capitalists, were largely motivated by a concern for profits. 

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Sir Walter Raleigh, a favorite in Queen Elizabeth's court, founded the "lost colony" of in 1587.  

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English Puritans who favored complete self-government for individual churches were later called . 

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The leader of the Puritans' Great Migration and longtime governor of Massachusetts Bay was . 

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When he was banished from Massachusetts Bay, Roger Williams established the colony of , where all religions were tolerated. 

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Unlike the Massachusetts Bay system, the instrument of government for the Connecticut colony, the , did not limit voting to church members. 

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Maryland's Toleration Act of 1649 guaranteed freedom of religion to all . 

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England based its claims to the New World on the voyages and explorations of in 1497 and 1498. 

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Question 11.
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Upon entering a new region of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors read the that called upon the Indians to recognize the sovereignty of the Spanish monarchy. 

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Question 12.
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The first elected representative assembly in English America was the , founded in Virginia in 1619. 

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Question 13.
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Many of the early settlers in the Carolinas were English colonists who had earlier settled on the West Indian island of . 

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