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Chapter 2 - American Expirements Flashcards

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  1. John Smith
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  • “He who will not work shall not eat”
  • English adventurer and colonist of Virginia
  • Responsible for first stable and permanent colony in the Americas (Jamestown)
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  1. John Rolfe
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  • Early English settler of America

- Credited with first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Virginia colonies

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  1. Indentured Servant
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  • Labor system for the young and inexperienced

- Paid transatlantic passage in return of labor, also “promised” a freedom due

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  1. Chattel Slavery
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  • Legalization of slaves as property (future generation of owned slaves children are owned by land owner)
  • Approved by many European governments and monarchs
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  1. Virginia House of Burgesses
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  • Representative government created by the Virginia company

- Approved of law and tax levy but council of England had veto rights

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  1. Maryland Act of Toleration
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  • Act of Concerning Religion

- Law mandating religious tolerance of Christians in the Catholic territory of Maryland

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  1. Headright System
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  • Guarantee of 50 acres in land when paid passage of immigration to New World colonies
  • Prompted indentured servants and slavery to occupy plantations
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  1. Chesapeake
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  • Region of Maryland and Virginia

- Distinguished of servants, cash crops, and, African slavery

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  1. Bacon’s Rebellion
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  • Armed rebellion of Virginian settlers against rule of Governor William Berkeley
  • Led by Nathaniel Bacon
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  1. Virginia Company
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Joint-Stock Company

  • Business Enterprise
  • Financial organization of English merchants in the colonization of North America
  • Companies shared stock for rise in proportion of total investment
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  1. Puritans and Separatists
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Puritans - Dissenters from the Church of England. Genuine reformation. Emphasizes individual relationship with God.
Separatist - separation from an established church

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  1. Mayflower Compact
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  • First democratic institution in English colonies

- Agreement of a religious tolerant and structural government (Democracy)

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  1. “City Up On a Hill”
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  • American exceptional-ism
  • Belief of a perfect and top prioritized colony
  • John Winthrop claimed Massachusetts Bay
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  1. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
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Hutchinson - American religious liberal

Williams - American/English clergyman founder of Rhode Island colony

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  1. Salem Witch Trials
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  • Belief of bewitching
  • Majority of women tried for being a witch
  • Defined female and social separation
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  1. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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  • First written constitution
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  1. Quakers
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  • Religious Society of Friends
  • Outcasts from the church
  • Colonized in Pennsylvania ad founded by William Penn
  • Religiously tolerant and developed friendly relations with Native American tribes
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  1. Holy Experiment
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  • Quaker attempt to establish a religious tolerant community

- Establishment in Pennsylvania

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  1. Mercantilism
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  • A system of political economy based on government regulation
  • Navigation Act (Britain control of the colonial commerce)
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  1. Anglicization
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-To become of English character or name

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  1. Stratification
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  • To arrange in a hierarchal order

- Hierarchical or vertical division of society according to rank

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  1. Triangular Trade
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  • The Colombian Trade

- A three way oversea trade system of Europe (old world), America (new world), and Africa

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  1. Metacom (King Phillip’s War)
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  • English expelled for interference in the Wampanoag’s tribe
  • 1/5 of English towns destroyed by Native attacks
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  1. The Great Awakening
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  • Avangelican revitalization that swept over Protestant Europe and British America colonies
  • Permanent Impact on American Protestantism
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  1. “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”
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  • Jonathan Edwards

- Sermon notes

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  1. John Peter Zenger Trial
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  • German American printer and journalist of The New York Weekly Journal
  • Put on trial due to publication of local governor criticism
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  1. French and Indian War
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  • 7 Years War

- French colonies and Indian tribes against British colonies in the Americas

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  1. Albany Plan of Union
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  • Proposal to create a first unified government for the 13 colonies
  • Suggested by Benjamin Franklin
  • Denied by colonists and Europeans
  • Against French and Indians
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  1. Pontiac’s Rebellion
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  • 1763 launched by a loose confederation of Native American tribes
  • Dissatisfied by British postwar policies of the Great Lakes
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  1. Proclamation of 1763
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  • Issued by King George III
  • British acquisition of French territory in North America end of 7 years war
  • Forbade colonization over border line along the Appalachian mountains

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