Period 1/2: 1491-1754 (Chapters 1-3) Flashcards

Question

English Bill of Rights

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helped start the scientific revolution wrote a book describing the potential of the human brain (showing that it is our job to fill our brains with knowledge (not predestined))

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1607 virginia Company | charter of King James

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1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was used as a way to attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage. With the emergence of tobacco farming, a large supply of workers was needed. New settlers who paid their way to Virginia received 50 acres of land.

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wealthy land owners chose representatives to go to James Town

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Mostly White labor force (servants) in Chesapeake but with this Blacks become the worker of choice (Slaves)

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mainly white servants into 1700

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The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

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Begining of the constitution

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1620 seperatists Bradford, Standish, and Winthrop-

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English Puritan lawyer founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies.

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English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence.[1] Williams was also a student of Native American languages, an early advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, and arguably the first abolitionist in North America, having organized the first attempt to prohibit slavery in any of the British American colonies.

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The land that became the English Colony was first home to the Narragansett, as well as some other Native American tribes such as the Nipmuc. European contact began by the Dutch, and was initially claimed by the Colony of New Netherlands. English settlement along the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colony. Once the English claimed the area of New England, Dutch influence was particularly withdrawn from the area, though still remained after that; arguably through the name Roode Eysland, which was later anglicized to Rhode Island. Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636-

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Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury (1591–1643), was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.

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Antinomianism, which means "against the law," was a centuries-old heresy whose basic tenet held that Christians were not bound by traditional moral law, particularly that of the Old Testament. Instead, man could be guided by an inner light that would reveal the proper forms of conduct.

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The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose.

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created because of English Civil war, more then 15,000 people came

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Heavily Dependent on Slaves

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White population was depudised to control the slaves. Became White vs. Black like never before.

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Penal Colony established to empty the Jails in England (people who were in debt were criminals)

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Founder of Georgia (penal colony) | Against Slavery

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20 slaves armed themselves and killed, burned, and began a march towards Florida (seeking freedom) Made Slave Codes even harsher

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Happened centuries before the colonial history | John Locke and Isaac Newton

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hard science | questioned all of these things and led to the beginning of the scientific revolution

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``` late 1600s- 1700s Came before the Great Awakening Deism and Ben Franklin to Observe, Collect, and Utilize information Success is self perpetuated ```

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The belief that God has created the universe but remains apart from it and permits his creation to administer itself through natural laws. Deism thus rejects the supernatural aspects of religion, such as belief in revelation in the Bible, and stresses the importance of ethical conduct.

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Almanac, brings scientific thinking and religion together, implemented the ideas of Reason, Data, and Improving upon ones life.

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George Whitfield, New lights vs. Old Lights individualism liberation rebellion came after the Enlightenment

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Ministers of the Prodestant Church who delivered their sermons through more animated, performed manners

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farmers used it, helped Enlightenment, made farmers think scientifically

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A colony under direct control of the King's government

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A joint-stock company | Helped to create Jamestown (first permanent English Colony)

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When a civil war in England in the 1630's drove more than 15,000 settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Brought African slaves to Americas because the native work force had been wiped out by disease Spanish had to pay a tax to their king for each slave they imported to the Americas

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panish King would give grants of land and natives to individual Spaniards

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traditional/orthodox minister of the Protestant church

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official in Georgia, both Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and a part of New York; liked because sermons were shorter, descriptions of hell less frightening, and amusements were less scorned

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preached in field or streets was kicked out of England because of his progressive ideas didn't need a church to preach known for his powerful, yet pleasant voice (spoke to 1000's of people without a microphone); 4/5 of American population heard him speak at least once; always preaching did not like the enlightenment because he thought that know could not replace god

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A vast empire in South America Advanced Culture Heavily Dependent on Potatoes

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Eve of Columbus Exchange | Spain/Portugal/European competition to colonies

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Martin Luther creates his own religion

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Elizabeth the first starts the Anglican Church

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defeat the spanish Armada

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Founding of James Town

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Bacon Rebellion

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Beneficial Neglect | "The Kings overseeing over the Colonies"

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Civil War: (parliament vs. the supporters of the king)

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``` Oliver Cronwell (the protector) Charles I son is crowned (Charles II) ```

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tried to be the Absolute Monarch Baptized his son (James II) as a catholic is thrown out of England

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Slave Code

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Stono Rebellion

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1524 interests in exploration

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1600 | founded hudson after explorer Henry Hudson

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1609 Dutch Explorer

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Florida, New Mexico, Texas, California

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Spanish priest who fought for the rights of the Natives laws of 1542

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helped to protect end Indian Slavery and began to end the economienda system

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1550 | Casas vs. Juan Gines de Sepuvelda

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coexisted, but soon were driven away by the savage ways

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believed in predestination | took power away from the church