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Sem 1 Review Flashcards

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Virginia Company Charter

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Decreed colonists would have same rights as English citizens

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Primogeniture

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Said oldest son gets family land, younger ones seek fortune

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Charles II

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King of England after Oliver Cromwell and Protestant Civil war

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Chesapeake Bay

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Location of first English settlement, Roanoke

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Lord De La Warr

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Aggressive Jamestown leader who ignited Anglo-Powhatan war

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Headright system

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Encouraged indentured servitude, gave 50 acres of land for payment of a servant’s passage

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James Oglethorpe

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Anti slavery military leader from Georgia (Ch. 2)

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Visible Saints

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Puritan belief of those who felt grace in soul showed in lives (Ch. 3)

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Mayflower Compact

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Agreement of pilgrims to settle a crude democracy for gentlemen

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Fundamental Orders

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First Constitution in America- for Connecticut, allowed property owners the right to vote

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Dominion of New England

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Attempt of King James to consolidate 4 New England colonies into single colony, limiting power

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William Bradford

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was governor of separatist Plymouth colony who was peaceful with natives

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John Winthrop

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First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Anne Hutchinson

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Antinominalist who spoke against idea of predestination. Banished from MBC

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King Philip

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Aka Metacom, son of Squanto, Wampanoag chief. His war 1676 managed to unite remaining tribes to attack Puritan villages. He ended up in pieces

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Sir Edmund Andros

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Anglican British military leader who created tension in Boston (Ch. 3)

17
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Bacon’s rebellion

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was of former indentured servants against native Americans and the Virginian governor William Berkeley when Native attacks went ignored

18
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Cotton Mather

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Puritan clergyman and scientist who advocated inoculation during Boston Smallpox epidemic 1721

19
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House of Burgesses

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Virginian government, dominated by first families

20
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Leisler’s Rebellion

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Armed conflict led by Jacob Leisler and the merchants of New York vs. the ruling elite (Ch. 4)

21
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George Whitefield

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English parson with booming voice during Great Awakening (Ch. 5)

22
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John Peter Zenger

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Newspaper printer defended by Hamilton when wrote about corrupt governor, a case which granted freedom of the press

23
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John Singleton Copley

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Loyalist painter

24
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Paxton Boys

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Scots-Irish who protested 1764 against Philadelphia Quakers’ lenient Indian policy

25
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When was Great Awakening?

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1730s, Ch. 5

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