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Chapters 4-5 Flashcards

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Hornbook

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A child’s first book shaped like a paddle and had the alphabet and the Lord’s prayer.

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New England Primer

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Standard text throughout the colonial period that provided basic grammar and vocab accented with moral lessons and included a short catechism (instruction regarding christian beliefs)

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Dame schools

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Schools that were open to boys and girls and were taught by women

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Smallpox

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A deadly English disease that killed most of the Native Americans

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Poor Richard’s Almanac

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a page with pictures and words of wisdom by Benjamin Franklin

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Puritans

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Protestants who agreed wholeheartedly with the Anglican creed, however they thought the church had to be purified from the customs of the Roman Catholic Church

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Separatists

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Believed the whole church of England was corrupt and that true Christians must separate themselves from it

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Congregationalists

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New England Puritans who elected its own officers and each church remained independant of other churches

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Half-Way Covenant

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Church members who had not owned the covenant but whose lives were outwardly moral could present their children for baptism

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Salem Witch Trials

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Resulted from the claims of several young girls in Salem Village, MA that witches were afflicting them

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non-established denominations

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Groups that did not have the state support or protection

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Roger Williams

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Fled from MA, founded RI, and the first baptist church

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Baptists

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only baptized professing believers and then only by immersing them in water

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Quakers

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believed that the inner light is a spark of divinity and that man is saved through obeying its leading rather than through the atonement of Christ

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George Fox

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originated the quakers

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Lutheran

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followers of Martin Luther

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Mennonites

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Anabaptists (refused to do anything with the state and believed in a holy, simple life) who followed Menno Simons

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Amish

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More conservative branch of the Mennonites

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Presbyterians

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Originated in the British Isles

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Huguenots

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French Reformed; settled in the colonies after Louis XIV abolished freedom of worship in 1685; many became presbyterians

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Moravians

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Followed John Huss of Bohemia; emphasized conversation, person piety, and a holy life; evangelism was a concern

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Great Awakening

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First most significant religious revival in America

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Jonathan Edwards

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Greatest Theologian of the Great Awakening; preached about justification by faith in 1734; wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry

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George Whitefield

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Outstanding Evangelist who preached outdoors and had a loud voice that enabled him to speak to thousands at a time

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Louisiana

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French territory named after King Louis XIV

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Seven Years’ war

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The European name for the French and Indian war

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George Washington

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22 year old Virginian colonel; built Fort Necessity

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Fort Duquesne

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Constructed by the french; Pittsburgh = fort dookie

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guerrilla warfare

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involved surprise attacks by small groups

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Albany Congress

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Attempted political unity

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Benjamin Franklin

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Proposed the Albany Plan

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Edward Braddock

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Tried to capture Fort Duquesne by oragnized open battle

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Marquis de Montcalm

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French commander in America

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William Pitt

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British leader who devised a plan to win the French and Indian war

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James Wolfe

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Killed fighting in Canada

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Battle of Quebec

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Canadian battle in 1759 that was a major defeat for the French

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Treaty of Paris

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Required France to give its land back in Canada to the British

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George III

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British king in 1760

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Pontiac

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Ottawa chief who led a war against the British after the French and Indian war

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Power of the Purse

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Salaries for the royal officials, military appropriations, and taxes had to obtain the approval of elected officeholders. Assemblies had the power to initiate their own legislation

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Proclaimation of 1763

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prohibited colonist from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains

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Sugar Act

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placed taxes on certain imported goods. raised revenue for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting and securing the colonies

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Stamp Act

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levied the first internal tax ever imposed on the colonies. They were being taxed without their consent and traditional power of colonial legislatures were being bypassed

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Internal tax

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tax on items produced and consumed entirely within the colonies

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Sons of Liberty

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group of people who were opposed to the Stamp Act

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Quartering Act

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officially subjected the colonies to a standing army in peacetime and further required that the colonist feed and house them

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Patrick Henry

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member of the Virginian House of Burgesses; presented resolutions declaring the Virginians possessed all rights and privileges of Englishmen and to grant the right of taxation to every other colony was an act of tyranny

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Stamp Act Congress

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denounced the stamp act and the seizure of colonial rights that it represented

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Samuel Adams

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led the Sons of Liberty

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Declaratory Act

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Parliament had the right to pass any law regarding the colonies that it desired

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Townshend Acts

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Put taxes on glass, paint, paper, and tea; direct conflict with power of the purse

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boycotts

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refusal to buy british goods

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