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Why did the English Parliament not trust King James?

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Thought he supported Catholicism

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Did English Parliament out James?

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Yes, during Glorious Revolution

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Why was Glorious Revolution a thing?

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Assertion of ¨the rights of english men¨ and authority of elected assemblies to control their destiny

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What was hypocritical about King James II

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A Catholic that was the head of the Protestant Church of England

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What did James do for Catholics?

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Expand their religious freedom

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What did James do for Protestants?

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Aroused opposition in Britians Protestant majority

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What did James want to assert

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royal authority

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how did James assert royal authority?

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appointed a single governor Sir Edmund Andros over New England

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Did colonies like Sir Edmund Andros as their new governor?

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no

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WHat did James do because the people didnt like him?

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He fled

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When King James fled, what did Parliament do?

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Invited his daughter Mary to go to England as joint sovereigns

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what did Parliament do now that it was in power?

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Limited royal authorities and took some control over kings and queens choices

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Kings and Queens were now ______, leaving ________ as the deciding factor in England

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limited, Parliament

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14
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Who justified the Glorious Revolution?

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John Locke

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Why did he justify the Glorious revolution

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he wanted the government resting their natural rights of the governed

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What did John Locke believe?

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Believed that people were born free in a state of nature and only agreed to social compact when it suite their purposes

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What did John Locke believe about the king

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The king nor the parliament are supreme, but the people are

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What continent used Lockes ideas hundreds of years later

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North America

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Who were the new monarchs of New England?

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William and Mary

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What did William and Mary allow?

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Allowed New England colonies to return to former separate existences

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In what colonies were Protestants allowed ¨Liberty of Conscience¨

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Massachusetts and Connecticut

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Were Catholics granted ¨Liberty of Conscience¨

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No

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23
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What wasnt allowed in New England

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Catholic worship

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What state made the bottom of the social order gain power

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New York

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Who made the bottom of the social order gain power in New York
The governor, Jacob Leisler
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Who made low social class New Yorkers loose their wealth
New governors Mary and William
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Which colonies catholic proprietor lost ownership
Maryland
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After 1689, what companies lost power?
Virginia Company and Massachusetts Company
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What religion gained rights
Protestants
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Who were now considered African slaves
Mixed children
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Did slaves grow or decline in the south?
grow
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What type of workers were all African slaves
Tobacco and rice workers
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Consistent flow of slaves to islands controlled by
English, Dutch, French, Danish, and Spanish
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how many Africans were forced across the Atlantic between 1500-1900
10-15 million
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Conditions of the slaves on the African coast
cramped in slave factories, only fed bread and water
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How did countries keep track of ¨their slaves¨
marked them with an iron
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The Middle Passage
where slaves were transferred to the Americas, and had ships of 400 slaves, chained shoulder to shoulder
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What percent of slaves died on the voyages
25%
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What percent of slaves died on the voyages
25%
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After generations of slaves, did they get treated better or worse
worse
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Usually what job did African slaves do
tobacco, rice, or cotton plantations
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Slaves punishments
branded, tortured, whipped
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Where was the largest trading center in North America
Charleston, South Carolina
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Stono Rebellion
Runaway slaves led a rebellion, which drained the Carolina economy and helped gain freedom from slavery in Spanish Florida in 1739
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How did slaves rebel during the Stono Rebellion
About 60 slaves walked off their plantation and burned buildings, killed whites to gain freedom in Spanish Florida
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New Yorks African community had _____ out of 10,000 residents
2,000 africans
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How may Africans died bc they were suspected of killing during the rebellion
30 (burned, hung, executed)
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Where were the other suspects exported
Jamaica (84)
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Women in Salem who-
lived alone or werent English were not to be trusted
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Which girls suffered fits and didnt believe in Go, leading people to believe they were involved in witchcraft
Abigail and Betty
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Who did they accuse of bewitching them
Tituba, their family Indian slave
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what did Abby and Betty start
Salem Witch trials
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How many people ere executed that were thought to be witches?
144
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What happened to the Salem Witch Trials?
Authorities had doubts and led them to end the trial
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What percent of British women in North America were lonely
90%
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What could men do that women couldnt
lots, like sell, buy, and make political talk
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What occupation were alot of women
nurses
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Who was at the bottom of the heirarchy
enslaved women
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Eliza Lucas
Wealthy woman, became a popular member of Charlestons elite and was in charge of 3 plantations at age 16 (bc war)
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what did Eliza Lucas help develop and cultivate
indigo
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what did Eliza Lucas help develop and cultivate
indigo
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What population increased with trade
British North American population
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What was the total population of the colonies
2.5 million, including 500,000 slaves
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How did port cities help the British Empire
Centers for trade and culture
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What did North American ships carry
cornmeal, pork, and beef
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What plantations were richer than mainland plantations
Jamaica and Barbados
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Cotton Mather
Created the first vaccine against smallpox in 1721 made cities safer
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What economic system did Britain develop
mercantilism
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What other economic system was taking over
capitalism
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Why did people support mercantilism
they thought it would increase the nations wealth
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Why did Britain guard mercantilism colonies
so the colonies wealth would be with Britain
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Navigation Act
anything shipped to North America had to be transported in English ships and everything shipped from the colonies had to be transported in English ships (mercantilism)
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What did mercantilism focus on
control of things
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what did mercantilism NOT focus on
trade of things
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Why did British colonists in North America hate mercantilism
British policies were keeping them from getting rich
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What was a source of wealth throughout British colonies
finding loopholes in the Navigation Acts
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What did trade increase
information gain, like helping Mather with vaccination and having Indians ally w France
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Two social classes in North America (1700s)
mean and women who didnt work for a living and those who needed money on bottom
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Who was considered lowest of the low
slaves and indentured servants
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What type of people considered themselves ¨middle sorts¨
mechanics, farmers, physicians, sailors, and printers
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Who was the best known minister in Boston in 1702
Cotton Mather
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What did Mather publish?
a history of New England that basically said that this land was a divinely planned opportunity to begin the world again and make it right
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Why was Mathers book declined
settlers were living comfortable lives
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What did the growth of philosophical ideas lead to
intellectuals looking into science and trying to understand the world
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What was the ¨science age¨ considered
Age of Enlightenment
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Who was nervous about the science uproars
ministers
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how did ministers deal with the science popularity?
Had sermons to increase the interest of religion
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The First Great Awakening
Led by Jonathan Edwards, religious revivals that swept the North American colonies in the 1730s had started
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What did the Great Awakening lead to?
any non-religious people to believe in religion and strengthening others religions
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What did the Awakening also help?
education systems
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What was Benjamin Franklins greatest desire?
for the people of Great Britain and its colonies to ¨learn to consider themselves, not as people belonging to different communities with different interest, but to one community with one interest¨
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Which countries tensions started a war?
France and England

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