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Christopher columbus

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Italian navigator, 1492

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Conquistadore

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Spanish conquerors of mexico and peru

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Columbian exchange

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Transmission and interchange of plants, animals, etc nw and ow

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Bartholomew de Las casas

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Spanish missionary who was disgusted and outraged by the poor treatment of na

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Pueblo revolt

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Revolution against Spanish religious, economic, etc imposed upon the Pueblos

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Indentured servants

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Agreed to work for fixed period

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Anglican church

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Church started by Henry viii, separating from the catholic church, official church of England

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John smith

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Captain famous for world travel, Jamestown

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Chesapeake

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The region of virgina and Maryland

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Headright system

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A land grant, paid for immigrants to move to colonial America

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Jamestown

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A first successful settlement

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John Rolfe

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One of the english settlers at Jamestown, married pocahontas

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House of Burgesses

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First elected legislative assembly, est n Virginia

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Uprising of 1622

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Powhatan rises against the english,surprise attacks

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Tobacco

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Poor man’s crop, rapid growth of slavery

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Pilgrims

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Form of puritans that wanted to break away from the church of England

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Puritans

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Non separatists who wished to adopt reforms to purify the church of England

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John Winthrop

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Puritan leader, first governor of MA

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Joint stock company

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Company made of a group of shareholders

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Mayflower compact

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First written document est self governance

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Roger Williams

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Puritan minister, banished

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Anne Hutchinson

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Puritan woman. Banished

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Rhode island

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American colony that was home to Newport slaves Market and many slave trades, founded by Roger williams

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Metacoms war

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Native Americans regain dominance over tribal lands

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Mercantilism

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Growing a nations wealth by exporting easily produced goods in exchange for limited imports

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Navigation acts

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Trade between England and it’s colonies

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Covenant chain

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Alliance between Iroquois confederacy and birtish colonies

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William penn

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English quaker

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Quakers

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A radical protestant sect

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Bacon rebellion

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Uprising in colonial Virginia, against English tyranny

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William Berkley

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Governor of Virginia, favorite by King Charles 1

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Glorious revolution

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James 2 removed from throne, parliament permanently est as ruling power of England

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Dominion of new England

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Colonial administrative union created by king James 2

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Salem witch trials

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Hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in ma

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Walking purchase

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Treaty signed by William Penn and the Delawares that gave him land as far a man can go in one day n a half

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Anglicization

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Act of making something or someone English

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Middle passage

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Forced journey by slaves

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Yeoman

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Small landowners

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Stono rebellion

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Largest uprising of enslaved people in the colonies

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John Locke

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English philosopher who advocated the idea of a social contract, natural rights

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Natural rights

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Fundamental rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Salutary neglect

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England didn’t strictly enforce parliamentary laws

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Ben Franklin

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Founding father

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American enlightenment

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Great intellectual and social change

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Deism

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GOD created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws

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First great awakening

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First genuine unified movement of American colonies

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Jonathan Edwards

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American theologian and congregational clergyman

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George Whitfield

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English Anglican minister, spread the spiritual revival

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Old lights

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New ways of revivals and emotional preaching were unnecessary

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New lights

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Modern thinking who strongly believed in the great awakening

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French Indian war(7 yrs war)

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Maintain control of land and cultural future

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Albany plan of union

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Confederation of colonies to defend against attack by European and native foes

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Proclamation line of 1763

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Forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mts

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Pontiacs rebellion

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Indian uprising after the French and Indian war, resulted in the proclamation of 1763

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Sugar act 1764

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Lowered the duty on foreign produced molasses as an attempted to discourage colonial smuggling

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Vice admiralty courts

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Systems used by British to try colonists

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Stamp act 1765

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Imposed a tax on all printed materials

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Virtual representation

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British parliament members represented British colonists by speaking for all

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Stamp act congress

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First convention called for by the American colonies, discuss stamp act

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Committees of correspondence

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Promote resistance to the British and strengthen communications between the colonies

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Sons of liberty

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Carry out public demonstrations against British polices that forced Americans to pay taxes

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Sam adams

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American statesman, political philosopher, founding father

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Boston massacre

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Deadly confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists

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Tea act

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Lowered the price of tea

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Boston tea party

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Political protest, sons of liberty raided three ships and threw all the tea overboard

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Intolerable acts

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Series of laws passed by parliament after the Boston tea party

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1st continental congress

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Convention of delegates that met in PA as a response to the intolerable acts

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John adams

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2 president of us

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Thomas Jefferson

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3rd president of us

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Daughters of liberty

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Protest treatment of the colonies by British rulers, formed by women

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Boycott

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Protest against policies

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Battle of Lexington and concord

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First battle of the revolutionary War, fought n ma

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2nd continental congress

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Form a provisional govt to make decisions abt the war

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Thomas paine

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Est common sense

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Common sense

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Colonist should free themselves from British rule

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Declaration of independence

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Formal document detailed it’s reasons for breaking political bonds with Britain

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