Period 2 Chapter 3- The English Colonies

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first permanent English settlement in North America.

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Jamestown

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signed contracts to work for four to seven years for those that paid for their trip across the Atlantic

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indentured servants

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made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians

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Toleration Act

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laws to control slaves

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slave codes

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wanted to purify the Anglican Church

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Puritans

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a group that separated from the Church and left England in order to escape persecution

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Pilgrims

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people who have left the country of their birth for another country

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immigrants

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one of the first attempts at self government, An agreement to form a political body and give it the power to enact laws for the good of the colony

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Mayflower Compact

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Puritan leader, that believed that had made a covenant with God, to build the ideal Christian community

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John Winthrop

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believed that people’s relationship w/ God did not need guidance from ministers

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Anne Hutchinson

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Group that believed in equality of men and women before God

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Quakers

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Quaker that promised religious freedom to all Christians and created a representative self government in Pennsylvania

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William Penn

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crops that are always needed

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staple crops

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people would meet and talk and decide on local issues

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town meeting

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reduced the power of the English king and gave parliament more power

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English Bill of Rights

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a system which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Europe, and Africa

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triangular trade

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a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s-1740s, calling for spiritual equality

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Great Awaking

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one of the most important leaders of the Great Awakening

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Jonathan Edwards

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reason and logic could improve society, ideas will later influence concepts in the USA government

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Enlightenment

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believed that England could not tax without representation, associated with the Sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams

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believed people were born with certain natural rights, will be a huge influence on Thomas Jefferson’s ideas

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John Locke

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committees that got in touch with other towns and colonies, sharing information about new British laws and way to challenge them

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Committees of Correspondence

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a popular method used by colonist to protest the British. It involved refusal to buy British goods

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boycott

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a tax that was placed on legal documents, newspapers, licences, this would lead to protests

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Stamp Act

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placed duties on glass, paints, paper, and tea. Unpopular because it took power away from the colonial governments

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Townshend Acts

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British soldiers killed five colonist, propaganda was used to sway the public against the British

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Boston Massacre

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allowed the British East Co to sell tea directly to the colonist, upsetting colonial merchants aiding to the Boston Tea Party

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Tea Act

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colonist dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest to the Tea Act

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Boston Tea Party

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closed Boston Harbor, Royal officals accused of crimes would be sent back to England, Quartering Act

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Intolerable Acts

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required colonist to house British soldiers

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Quartering Act

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economic theory that measures wealth based on the amount of gold/silver a country obtains or creating a favorable balance of trade

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mercantilism