Period 2 1607-1754 Flashcards

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Middle passage

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The journey from africa to America for slaves

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First black in America 1619

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  • needed-
  • -Ton of land
  • less indentured servants
  • could no longer enslave natives (run, get sick)
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Stone rebellion 1739

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SLAVE REBELLION

  • 100 rose up
  • killed several whites while attempting to flee to Florida
  • -led to harsher laws
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Great Migration to Massachusetts 1630-1640

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For religious freedom

-15,000

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Puritans

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Wanted to PURIFY Anglican church NOT SEPARATE
-predestination

-Winthrop - “city on a hill”

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Providence Road Island 1636

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By Roger Williams

  • purchased from Indians
  • religious freedom
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Chesapeake (MD+VA)

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Tobacco focuses

Expansion of land to grow more

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Pennsylvania 1682

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William Penn (given by king)
-quaker safe haven
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Quakers

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-believed WOMEN had more rights in church and society

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Jamestown 1607

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1st British settlement

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Georgia 1732

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Buffer between Carolina’s and SPANISH FLORIDA

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Beaver wars

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Indian attempt to slow expansion

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13
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Chickasaw Wars

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French vs. English

-over fur trade

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Wool act 1699

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  • prohibited the export of colonial wool

- could be sold locally

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Molasses Act 1733

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HUGE price increase on Molasses

  • no importation
  • used in whiskey macking
  • still imported through smuggling for West Indies
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King Philips War 1675-1676

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Natives vs English

  • English won, Indians NO LONGER A THREAT
  • colonist participated in it
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Pueblo Revolt 1680

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Pueblo rose up against SPANISH

  • killed 68
  • quick to end
18
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Colonial race attitudes–> Casta System

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Social prejudice based on

  • parents ancestry
  • place of birth
  • race
19
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Mulatto (race)

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1 black and 1 white parent

-can be free of slave

20
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Metis (race)

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Children of an Indian and French parent

21
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Mercantilism

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-colonies provide RAW materials to motherland for MANUFACTURED goods

22
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Triangular trade

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Us-rum
Europe-slaves
W. indies- sugar

Us-raw
Europe-manufactured
Africa-slaves

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House of Burgesses 1619

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1st legislative assembly

-in VA

24
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Mayflower compact 1620

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“civil body politics”

  • NORTH of there area
  • law and order for Plymouth
25
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Maryland Toleration Act 1649

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Toleration of all Christians

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Establishment of dominion of New England 1686

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British combined: MA, RI, NH, CT into one

-headed by a royal governor (ANDROS)

27
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Established church

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PA chruch by Penn to protect Quakers
Maryland- free catholic practices
Road Island- Christians and JEWS

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Navigation Acts 1651-1696

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British Trade Laws

  • enforced mercantilism
  • encouraged smuggling
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Salutary neglect

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  • Brits did not enforce trade laws

- colonies = almost independent for a time

30
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Bacons rebellion 1676

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Lived on frontier

  • needed help to fight natives
  • colonial gov refused
  • -bacon storms Jamestown with 300 others
31
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Great awakening 1730s-1760s

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  • new reverendness
  • -helped unite colonies
  • questioned the religious authority of the British
32
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George Whitefield

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Started great awakening

  • Calvinist
  • believed in equality interns of religion
33
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Jonathan Edwards

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Sinners in the hands of an angry god!!!!

34
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John Locke

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  • life, liberty, property

- government “for the people, by the people”

35
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Indentured servitude

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  • someone pays for transportation to America
  • -given 50 acres/person
  • -unpaid labor