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An economic theory that says a country’s power based on its wealth

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Mercantilism

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The settlement of lands in America by the citizens of European countries

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Colonization

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A government where people elect representatives to make laws for them.

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Representative government (republicanism)

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Englishmen who wanted to LEAVE the Church of England

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Separatists

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Englishmen who wanted to reform of purify the Church of England

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Puritans

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People are allowed to practice any religion they choose and government cannot favor or establish an official religion that all citizens must follow

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Separation of church and state

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Guarantees freedom of speech press,religion,right to assemble and petiton

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First amendment

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Protects against general search warrants all illegal search and seizure

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Fourth amendment

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Guarantees a speedy trial by jury,right to an attorney innocent until proven guilty

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Sixth amendment

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For bids excessive (large) bail and cruel unusual punishment of prisoners

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Eight amendment

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An armed rebellion or uprising against the government or the authority

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Revolution

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Freedom from the control or influence of another nation (nations freedom)

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Indepednce

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Institution that makes the law and taxes the people

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Government

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Freedom from restrictions placed on individual actions

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Liberty

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The requirement that citizens pay money to the government to finance its operations

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Taxation

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Tax on imports ….. Goods brought into the country

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Tarrif

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Diaries,letters,newspapers,articles,and photographs are all examples of

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Primary sources

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Textbooks and articles that provide a summary of info found in primary sources are

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Secondary sources

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William penn founded Pennsylvania as a place where they could worship freely

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Quakers

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The Massachusetts bay colony was governed by there religious belief

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Puritans

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Roger William founded this colony based in the separation of church and state

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Rhode Island

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Colony established for debtors in 1733 by James Oglethorpe

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Georgia

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Colony established by lord Baltimore as a place for Catholics to worships freely

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Maryland

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Economic system where private business compete with little government inter price

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Free inter price

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Buying and selling of humans for forced labor

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Slave trade

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Right to practice ones religious beliefs without interference from the government

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Religious freedom

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Large farms run by an owner and usually worked by slaves

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Plantations

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A branch of business or manufacturing that can employs a good number of people

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Industry

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The occupation of producing crop and raising live stock to sell for profit

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Agriculture

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An area outside of the city out in the country side

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Rural area

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The right or privilege of voting

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Suffrage

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Loyalty to a state,colony or region rather than to the whole colony

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Sectionalism

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A skilled craftsman such as a blacksmith or carpenter

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Artisan

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Government actions are restricted and EVERYONE must obey the law under a

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Limited government

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Conflict that removed thee French threat to the American colonies

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French and Indian war

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Ben franklins plan to unite the colonies under one government so that they could work together to defeat France

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Albany plan of union

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King George the 3rd declared that the Appalachian Mts. Would be the western boundary of the colonies forbidding settlers to move further west

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Proclamation of 1763

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The trade routes between the colonies West Indies and Great Britain or Africa

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Triangular trade

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The part of the triangular trade route that carried slaves from Africa to the West Indies

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Middle passage

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Law that directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies so that most of the profit went to England

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Navigation acts

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The powerful religious revival that swept through the colonies in the 1720-1740

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The great awakening

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Era scientific advancement that spread across the world is 1700’s

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Enlightment

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Law that placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies

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Stamp act

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The British parliament stated that it had the right to tax and make all decisions for the colonies in the

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Declaratory act

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Law that let the east India company sell tea directly to colonists without paying the tea tax

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Tea act

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Colonial organization begun by Sam Adams to protest British taxes

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Sons of liberty

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Colonial organization set up in towns to spread news and political ideas throughout the colonies

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Committees of correspondence

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Guarantees due process of law right against self incrimination

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Fifth amendment

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His book “two treaties of government strongly influenced the ideas expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the decoration of idepence

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John Locke

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British judge whose commentaries on English law greatly influenced the U.S

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William blackstone

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