Matching On Midterm

Question 0

Roger Williams

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Extreme separatist
Declared that English settlers had no rightful claim to land in less he purchased it from Native Americans Royal charter is a “national sin”
Said that government officials had no business punishing settlers for their religious beliefs
Fled Massachusetts 1636 Gotland from Indians and made Providence

Question 1

Head right system

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Created to make people want to come to Jamestown in 1618 anyone who paid for their own/another’s passage to Jamestown got 50 acres of land was very successful

Question 2

Dominion of New England

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Charles 1685 tried to make colonies more obedient and made Maine to new England one colony

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Indentured servant

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Servants would come to America for free and work for a period of time

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Navigation acts

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1651 couldn’t trade and less English ships were used three fourths of the ships workers had to be English colonies could export certain products only to England God said to be passed through an English port colonist didn’t like it so they smuggled or traded illegally

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Salutary neglect

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England DIDNT watch over colonies closely

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Proclamation of 1763

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Banned all settlement west of the appalachians

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Stamp act

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Every colonist had to purchase a special stamp paper for everything George Greenville 1765 March caused many protests eventually repealed March 1766 used declaratory act to show parliaments power

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Town shed acts

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Less than a year after Charles town shed proposed taxes on goods from Britain and also Threepenny tax on tea caused many rebellions no taxation without representation and caused the Boston tea party

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Committees of correspondence

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Americans were going to go to England for trial but Massachusetts and Virginia made committees of correspondence to communicate with other colonies in 1774 it was a way of communication

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Intolerable acts

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Because of the Boston tea party Parliament enforced intolerable acts in 1774 shut down Boston Harbor

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Martial law

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Rule imposed by military forces Boston was placed under making Gen. Thomas Gage new governor of Massachusetts

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Olive branch petition

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July 8, 1775 Congress send king Olive branch petition to return to form a harmony between British and the colonists King George rejected petition and stated that the colonies were in rebellion and urged Parliament to order a naval blockade of the American coast

Question 13

Second Continental Congress

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People from colonies gathered to talk about the future of the colonies and the next moves that they would do for independence made a Continental Army acted like an independent government printed it own money and made a committee to do with foreign Nations

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Commonsense

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50 page pamphlet by Thomas Paine attacking King George the third wrote about how it’s time for the colonies to be independent everyone in the colonies had one

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Declaration of Independence

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Written by Thomas Jefferson used John Locke’s ideas of natural rights caused delegates to vote the colonies were independent on July 2, 1776 and adopted the declaration of independence on July 4, 1776

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Valley Forge

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Continental Army’s camp during winter of 1777 to 1778 very harsh conditions

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Trenton New Jersey

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Continental Army marched to Trenton in the middle the night to surprise attack the hessians no lives were lost and made colonies supportive again

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Inflation

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During the war A lot of paper money was printed it lose value

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Profiteering

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Selling scarce goods for a profit

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Mercantilism

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Nation try to get more gold and power and exporting value is higher than the import

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George Greenville

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Financial expert prime minister 1763 he told Parliament to make sugar act

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Jamestown

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First place colonist settled struggled at the beginning many died in 1607 then 1609 600 more came 60 left after that began to flourish

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Balance of trade

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The difference between goods sold and goods bought

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Writs of assistance

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The general search warrant allowed British customs official to search any colonials hip or building they believed to be holding smuggled goods