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English Colines Flashcards

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Jamestown

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the first permanent English settlement in North America

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John Smith

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Strict work for food

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Powhatan confederacy

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Friendly indians that taught settles to grow corn

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Bacons rebellion

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When the governee tried to stop him his followers and him attacked and burned jamestown rebellion ended with a fever

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John rolfe

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Introduced tobacco married Pocahontas

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Indentured servants

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Free trip to North America by agreeing to work without pay for period of years

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Head right system

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Colonies earned 50 acres could earn another 50 acres of land for every additional person brought from england

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Mercantilism

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Colonists traded raw materials to Great Britain and Great Britain sold manufactured goods Export more than import

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Puritans/ Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritans wanted to stay at king henrys church but wanted to purify it

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Pilgrims

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Split from Henry’s church

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Mayflower

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The ship the pilgrims went on to plymouth rock

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Mayflower compact

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Charter only for Virginia but needed a new one for Massachusetts creates first attempt of self government

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Economy/regional characteristics of New England

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Lots of town meetings and care about education bad for farming because soil and climates fish hunting merchants blacksmith ship builders are other jobs

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Middle colonies

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William Penn founded Pennsylvania and Quakers

Society of friends

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Staple crops

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Crops that are needed

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Slave codes

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Ne weapons or meetings some say owner cant free their slaves

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Middle passage

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Journey slaves took acrooss the Atlantic

18
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Triangular trade

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A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas Britain and Africa

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Olaudah Equaino

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Bought his freedom

20
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Cash crops

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Crops that brought money to the colony

21
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Maryland money for the Roman Catholic

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Catholic could not practice their religion in england

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Toleration Act of 1649

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Crime to restrict religious rights of christians

First law supporting religious tolerance in the English colonies

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James oglethorpe

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Got charter for Georgia colony for debtors

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Town meetings

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People talked about and decided on issues of local intrest

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Thomas Hooker

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Aka father of American Democracy
Created fundamental orders of
Connecticut
Founder of Connecticut

26
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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

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Allowed men who were not church members to vote

Also outlined the powers of general courts

27
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Anne Hutchinson

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Believed people did not need ministers to have a relationship with God
Git kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled in Rhode Island

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Who was new York originally founded by

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The dutch called New Netherland and capital was New Amsterdam

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Quakers

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Aka Society of Friends made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey
Believed i. Equality if men and women before god

30
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English Bill of Rights

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In 1689 reduced power of the English monarch

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Enlightenment

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Age of reason

Spread the idea of logic and reason

32
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Great awakening

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A religious movement that swept through the colonies

Spirtualy equal in the eyes of god and politically equal

33
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French and Indian war

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England wins take land from Mississippi

34
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Chief Pontiac

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Fighting against england

35
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Proclamation of 1763

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Banned British settlement west of the Appalachian mountains and ordered settlers to leave upper Ohio River Valley

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King George 3rd

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Issued the proclamation of 1763

37
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Why did england tax the american colonies

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To pay for the army for protection and war debts

38
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Stamp act

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All paper proudcuts had a tax a stamp probed u payed tax

39
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Sons if Liberty

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Sam adams was the leader

40
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Boston massacre

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5 colonist died

41
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Boston tea party

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Over 340 chest of tea dumped in Boston harbor

42
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Intolerable acts

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England punishes Massachusetts with for acts

  1. Boston harbor closed until Boston paid for ruined tea
  2. Charter was cancelled
  3. royal officials were sent to Britain for trail
  4. General Thomas became new gov of Massachusetts

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