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black codes

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restricted the rights & freedoms of black people in Americas

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“city upon a hill”

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Puritan community as an example for others

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encomiendas

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Spanish labor system-labor recieved in exchange for conquering

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headright system

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grant of land given to settlers in the New World

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indentured servitude

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agreement of strict, unpaid labor for a certain number of years (resulting in freedom)

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mercantilism

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more exports than imports to serve the mother country best

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puritanism

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religious reform movement by English protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholicism

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salutary neglect

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Britain avoids enforcement of laws (trade laws especially) on American colonies

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slavery

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ownership of a person as property for labor

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tariffs

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tax to be paid on imports or exports

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Virginians led by Nathaniel Bacon rebel against Governer William Berkeley after refusal to protect from Native attacks & drive Natives further off of their land

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1st Great Awakening

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religious revivalism between 1730s-1740s in Europe and British American colonies

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Pequot war

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armed conflict in New England between Pequot tribe and Puritan colonists-Puritans destroyed tribe

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pueblo revolt

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uprising against Spanish colonizers by Native Americans-intent to reclaim religion and land

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spanish mission system

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Catholic missions established in newly colonized Americas to convert colonized people

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the “starving time” in Jamestown

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early colonists at Jamestown faced winter of failed crops, disease, violence ->failed first attempt at settlement

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stono uprising

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slave rebellion starting with 20 people in South Carolina-stole weapons and grew until shut down by authorities & most executed

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Anne Hutchinson

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Puriton reformer-antimonian controversy: banished from MA bay colony after challenging teachings about salvation-seen as threat to male authority

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Benjamin Franklin

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founding father who was also a scientists, inventor, printer, statesman

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congregationalists

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Puritans who wanted to reform the Church of England from within instead of separating

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George Whitefield

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English minister who toured/preached to colonies during 1st Great Awakening

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John Smith

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English colonist who played a role in establishment of Jamestown colony

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John Rolfe

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English colonists who cultivated tobacco in the Virginia colony-married Pocahontas

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Pilgrams

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Puritans who wanted to separate (separatists) from the Church of England completely since it was incapable of reform

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Powhatan Confederacy

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Native American tribes in the Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina area-under chief Powhatan

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Puritans

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English protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholicism

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Roger Williams

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minister who though church and state should be separated-banished by Puritans for controversial teachings-founded Rhode Island colony

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Virginia Co.

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English trading co-fund colonization of America’s East coast

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Cahokia

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Native American center for trade before arrival of European colonists

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The Chesapeake

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modern day Maryland & Virginia region that profitted from cash crops like tobacco after colonized

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Jamestown

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first English colony in the new world-failed multiple times before tobacco farming was discovered

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritans-centered on trade-Boston port city

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Middle colonies

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NY, PA, NJ region-fertile land-farming-bread colonies

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Southern colonies

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cash crops-reliance on slavery for big plantation owners

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Toleration Act

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granted religious freedoms to colonists

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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stated powers & limits of government under the guidance of God

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Halfway Covenant

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decision to allow baptism of all children who’s parents were baptized (instead of having to experience God’s grace) after many lost interest in Puritan church

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Mayflower Compact

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agreement by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower of a basic legal system-government’s power was to come from consent of governed, not God

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Navigation Acts

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restricted colonial trade to only England and restricted foreign imports

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