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Unit 1 Flashcards

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Representative government

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A government where voters elect representatives to make laws for them

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Charter

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

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Magna Carta

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A British document that contained two basic ideas, monarchs have to obey laws and citizens have basic rights. It limits the power if the king
CAN’T RAISE TAXES

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Parliament

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Representative assembly in England

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Mayflower Compact

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A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Founder of Roanoke colony

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John smith

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Saved Jamestown, Englishman who set up strict rules and alliances to help the colony

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Powhatan

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The most powerful Indian chief, helped Jamestown colonists

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Pocahontas

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Powhatan’s daughter, Married John Rolfe

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House of burgesses

1619

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The assembly of government representatives.

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Burgesses

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Elected representatives in the Jamestown colony

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Pilgrims

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Someone who makes a long journey for religious reasons

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Squanto

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Indian of the Wampanoag tribe, helped Jamestown settlers, spoke English

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Toleration

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Excepting other people’s point of views

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Religious toleration

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Accepting and being okay with someone worshipping a different religion

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Town meeting

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Place for settlers to discuss and vote on town issues. New England colonies

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John Winthrop

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Founder of Massachusetts, first governor, Puritan

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Puritans

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Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts bay colony

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General court

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Elected representative assembly in Massachusetts bay colony

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Great migration

1629-1640

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The movement if 15,000 some people from England to Massachusetts

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Thomas Hooker

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Founder of Connecticut, man who took people from Massachusetts and started a colony

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Roger Williams

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Founder of Rhode Island, disagreed with Massachusetts gov. And Puritan church

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

1639

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Plan of government for Connecticut colony

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Anne Hutchinson

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Speaker Of beliefs on puritan topics, exiled from Massachusetts

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Proprietary colony

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English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.

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Royal Colony

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A colony under the direct control of the English crown

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Cash crop

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Crops sold for money at a market

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Restorer of law and order in new Amsterdam, proclaimed himself governor

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William penn

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Founder Of Pennsylvania, Quaker, treated native Americans fairly, made Pennsylvania a place of religious freedom

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Quakers

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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

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Pennsylvania Dutch

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German speaking Protestants who came to Pennsylvania, called Dutch because English couldn’t pronounce deutsch

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Breadbasket colonies

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Nickname for middle colonies because they exported so much grain

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Backcountry

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Land along the eastern slope of the Appalachian mts where Germans and Scotch-Irish settlers traveled to

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Great wagon road

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An old Iroquois trail that settlers followed to the back country

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Indigo

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A plant used to make a valuable blue dye

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Debtor

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People who owed money they couldn’t pay back

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Plantation

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A large estate farmed by many workers

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Slave code

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Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

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Mason Dixon line

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Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland; divided middle and southern colonies;244 miles; Charles Dixon and Jeremiah mason

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Lord Baltimore

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An English settler who was in charge of a colony, offered land and expanded colony, Maryland

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Act of toleration

1649

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A Maryland law that provides religious freedom for all Christians

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James Oglethorpe

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Founder of Georgia, place for debtors, peace with native Americans

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Bacons rebellion

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1676; raid against governor and native Americans in Virginia

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Tidewater

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Land wahed by ocean tides

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Mercantilism

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Theory that a nations economic strength came from keeping a strict control over its colonial trade

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Import

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Goods brought into a country

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Export

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Goods sent to markets outside a country

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Triangular trade

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Colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies and west Africa

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Legislature

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A group of people who have the power to make laws

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Bill of rights

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Written list of freedoms the government promises to protect

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Navigation acts

1650s

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Series of English laws that regulated trade between England and its colonies

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Yankee

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Nickname for New England merchants implying they are clever and hard working

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Glorious revolution

1688

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Movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights if English citizens

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English bill of rights

1689

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A document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens

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Gentry

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Top social class
Wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, lawyers and royal officials
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Middle class

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Social class below gentry
Farmers, skilled crafts workers, traders
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Indentured servant

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Person who agreed to work without pay for 4-7 years for anyone who would pay for them to go to America. Received freedom dues when done

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Public school

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Schools paid for by taxes, anyone can go

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Apprentice

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12/13 year old boy who worked for a master to learn a trade or craft
6-7 years

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Dame school

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School for girls

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Libel

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The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a personas reputation

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Great awakening

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1730s/1740s

Religious movement in the English colonies

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Enlightenment

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Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason

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John Peter zenger

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1734

Man put on trial for criticizing New York governor, charged for libel, released

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Ben Franklin

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Inventor:writer
“Poor Richards almanac”
Lighting rod, bifocals, no smoke fireplace, fame for public services

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Gullah

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Language combining west African and English languages, South Carolina

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