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Act of Religious Toleration

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Passed by the Maryland Assembly in 1649, granted religious freedom to all Christians. Established the Chesapeake Bay Colony, under Catholic Lord Calvert, as a haven for Catholics in the North America.

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Albany Plan (of Union)

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1754 plan conceived of by Benjamin Franklin to create a more centralized coloinal government that would establish policies regarding defrense, trade, and territorial expansion, as well as aim to facilitate better relations between colonists and American Indians. THe plan was rejected and never implemented.

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Anglicization

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Adoption of English customs and traditions. This shaped colonial culture and politics in 18th-Century North America, through the adoption of English legal and social traditions in the colonies

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Anglo-Powhatan Wars

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Series of conflicts in the 1620s between the Powhatan Confederacy and English settlers in Virginia and Maryland

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Anne Hutchinson

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Critic of the clerical doctrine of grace who sparked the Antinomian heresy that challenged the spiritual authority of established clergy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Antinomianism

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A belief that salvation comes from God’s grace alone and not from good works; the elect need not obey the law of neither God nor man; most notably espoused in the colonies by Anne Hutchinson

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Aristocracy

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Members of the highest class of society, typically nobility who inherited ranks & titles

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Atlantic World

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The Peoples & Empires around the Atlantic Ocean rim that became interconnected in the 16th Century

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Aztec

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Spanish word for the Mexica, an indigenous people who built an empire in present-day Mexico in the centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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1676 uprising in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon. Bacon and his followers, a mix of former and current indentured servants, as well as Black slaves, were upset by the Virginia governor’s unwillingness to send troops to intervene in conflicts between settlers and American Indians, and by the lack of representation of Western settlers in the House of Burgesses. Ultimately resulted in a sharper deleniation between Native and white spheres of influence, the decline of indentured servitude and its replacement by chattell slavery as the primary labor force in the MIddle and Southern colonies.

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Bartoleme de las Casas

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Dominican Friar who fought for fairer treatment of indigenous people in Spanish colonies

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Battle of Quebec

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(1759) Historic British victory over French forces on the outskirts of Quebec. The surrender of Quebec marked the neginning of the end of French rule in North America.

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Benjamin Franklin

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Inventor, author, statesman, diplomat in the 1700s; served as colonial agent in England during the early part of the conflict between the colonies and England

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Borderlands

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Places where 2 or more nations or societies border each other, and where power is dispensed among competing actors, resulting in fluid social relations, hybrod cultures, and the absence of firmly agreed sovereignty. During the colonial era in North America, borderlands were often places where European empires and native American societies engaged with each other, including the Great Lakes and the Missouri Valley regions. Other examples include the vast territory from Texas to California where Hispanic and Anglophone cultures have intermingled for centuries.

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Boston Massacre

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Inflammatory description of a deadly clash between a mob and British soldiers on March 5, 1770, that became a symbol of British oppression for many colonistst

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Boston Tea Party

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Dramatic attempt by Boston leaders to show colonial contempt for the Tea Act; Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped British tea into Boston Harbor; triggered similar actions across the colonies

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Buffer State/Zone

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In politics, a territory betwen 2 antagonistic powers, intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them. In British North America, Georgia was established as a buffer colony between British and Spanish territory.

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Cahokia

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Major trading center in the Missisippi River Valley near modern-day St. Louis, from the 7th-13th Centuries

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Calvinism

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Protestant sect developed in Switzerland by John Calvin, in which civil judges and reformed ministers ruled over a Christian society

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Capitalism

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An economic system based on private ownership of property and the open exchange goods between property holders on th “free market”. European colonization of the Americas, and in particular, the discovery of vast bullion deposits, helped bring about Europe’s transition to capitalism.

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Cash Crop

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A crop produced for profit rather than subsistence

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Casta System

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System developed by the Spanish in the 16th Century to administer colonies and their diverse populations; based on racial hierarchy that priveleged Europeans

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Cecilius Calvert

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2nd Lord of Baltimore who helped found Baltimore Maryland with his father George Calvert

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Charter

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Legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose and spelling out the attending rigths and obligaitons. British colonial charters guaranteed inhabitants all the rights of Englishmen, which helped solidify colonists’ ties to Britain during the early years of settlement.

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Chattel Slavery

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A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property

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Chinook

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North American Indians who lived in present-day Washington & Oregon, who built extensive plank houses, and structured their society around complex kinship and trade networks

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Christopher Columbus

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Sea captain working for the Spanish crown whose trans-Atlantic voyages helped introduce the “New World” to Europeans

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Church of England

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National church established by King Henry VIII after he split with the Catholic Church in 1534

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Citizenship

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An individual’s relatoinship to the state, wherein citizens swear allegiance to that state, and the state in return is obligated to provide rights to those citizens

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Civil liberties

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Individual rights regarding freedom that are created by a constitution and a political regime

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Civil Rights

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Idividual rights regarding equality that are created by a constitution and a political regime

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Coercion

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The act of compelling behavior by threatening harm

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Coercive Acts

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British Parliament’s retalitation against the Boston Tea Party that was meant to coerce Boston colonists by reducing the colony’s rights to self-governance. Closed the port of Boston until residents paid for the damaged property and moved Massachusetts court cases against royal officials back to England in a bid to weaken colonial authority.

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Colonialism

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An imperialist system of physically occupying a foreign territory using military, economic institutions, or settlers

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Colonization

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The process of settling and controling an already inhabited area for the economic or strategic benefit of the colonizer

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Colony

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Geographic area in one nation under control by another nation and typically occupied at least partly by settlers of that other nation

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Columbian Exchange

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The massive global exchange of living things, including people, animals, plants, and diseases, between Eastern & Western Hemispheres that began after the voyages of Columbus

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Committees of Correspondance

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First called by Samuel Adams; formed in Boston, spread throughout the colonies to share information about British abuses of power, particulaly in response to the Sugar Act

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Common Law

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Law established from custom and the standards set by previous judicial rulings.

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Congregational Church

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Self-governing Puritan congregations without the hierarchichal establishment of the Anglican Church

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Conquistador

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15th/16th Century European (usually Spain or Portugal) conquerer of the Americas (esp. Mexico & Peru). Generally part of a corporate entity in Europe

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Conservatism

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A political ideology that is skeptical of change and supports the current order (status quo)

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Constituency

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A geographical area that an elected official represents

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Constitutional Monrachy

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A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution–in England’s case, the Declaration of Rigths (1698), which formally limited the power of its king.

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Consumer Revolution

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A process that emerged in the 17th and 18th Centuries, through which status in the colonies became more closely linked to financial success and a refined lifestyle rather than birth and family pedigree. The consumer revolution was spurred by industrialization and increased global trade.

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Continetal Congress

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Congress convened in Philadelhpia in 1774 in response to the Coercive Acts. THe delegates hoped to reestablish the freedoms colonists had previously enjoyed under saluatory neglect

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Conversion

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Intense religious experience taht confirmed an individual’s place among the “elect,” or the “visible saints.” Calvinists who experienced conversion were then expected to lead sanctified lives to demonstrate their salvation

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Corporation

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A form of business ownership in which the liability of shareholders in a company is limited to their indivisual investments. Joint-stock companies throught which the American colonies were established were an early example.

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Cotton Mather

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Puritan theologian and “fire-and-brimstone” preacher, who, drawing from the knowledge his slave Onesimus, helped introduce smallpox immunization

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Counter-Reformation

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Reaction in the Catholic Church triggered by the Reformation that sought change from within and created new monastic and missionary orders, including the Jesuits, who saw themselves as soldiers of Christ

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Coup d’etat

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A move in which military forces take control of a government by force

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Covenant

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Puritan belief that an individual’s relationship with God and others rested on mutual respect, duty, and consent

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Covenant Chain

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The alliance formed between Iroquois leaders and colonists during a meeting in Albany in 1677 in hopes of salvaging their fur trade and preventing future conflict. Became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American Peoples

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Covenant of Grace

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The Christian idea that God’s elect are granted salvation as a pure gift of grace. This doctrine holds that nothing people do in life can erase their sins or earn them a place in heaven.

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Covenant of Works

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The Christian idea that God’s elect must do good works in their earthly lives to earn their slavation

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Coverture

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A Principle in English Law that placed wives under the protection and authority of their husbands, so that they did not have independent legal standing

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Creole

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Person of European or African ancestry born in the Americas; also, a person of mixed European & African ancestry

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Crispus Attucks

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Former slave turned dockworker. During the Boston Massacre, was allegedly at the head of the crowd of hecklers who baited the British troops, was killed when the British troops fired on the crowd.

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Currency Act

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1764 act of Parliament preventing colonial assemblies from printing paper money or bills of credit, curtailing the ability of local colonial economies to expand.

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Daughters of Liberty

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Organization of women in the colonies that led the boycott against the Tea Act

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Declaratory Act

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1766 act announcing Parliament’s authority to pass any law “to bind the colonies and peoples of North America closer to Britain

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Deflation

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A fall in prices of consumer goods caused by supply exceeding demand

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Deism

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The Enlightenment-influenced belief that God created the universe and then left it to operate according to natural laws. Deists relied on reason rather than scripture to interpret God’s will

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Democracy

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A politcal system in which political power is excercised either directly or indirectly by the people

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Direct Democracy

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Democracy that allows the public to participate directly in government decision making

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Dominion of New England

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Colonial entity formed when James II consolidated the governments of Massachusetts and the rest of the New England colonies; later included NY and NJ. Established greater control over the colonies by English authorities; resulted in the banning of town meetings, new taxes, and other unpopular policies. The Dominon was dissolved during the Glorious Revolution.

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Dunmore’s War

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A 1774 war led by Virginia’s governor, the Earl of Dunmore, against the Ohio Shawnees, who claimed Kentucky as a huntig ground. The Shawnees were defeated and Virginians claimed Kentucky as their own.

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Effigy

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A roughly made image or model of a person, typically created in order to be destroyed in an act of protest

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Elizabeth I

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Protestant Queen of of England for the latter half of the 1500s who presided over the beginnings of English colonial enterprises in America

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Embargo

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A ban on trade with a particular country

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Empire

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A single political authority that has a large number of external regions or territories and different peoples under its sovereignty

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Enclosure Movements

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The privatized use of common land for personal or financial gain by noblemen, who evicted to commoners relied on the land for subsistence. THis led to social conflict, famine, the creation of an industiral working class, and immmigration to America.

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Encomienda

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The right to extract tribute and labor from the native peoples on large tracts of land in Spanish America; also the name given to the land and village in such tracts

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English Civil War

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(1642-1651) Series of civil wars fought to determine who should control England’s government

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Enlightenment

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European intellectual movement from the late 17th Century to the end of the 18th Century that stressed the importance of rational scientific thining and reason, over traditonal religion and superstition, in the pursuit of ultimate truth.

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Evangelist

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A devout person who aims to convert others to the faith through preaching and missionary work

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Feudalism

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A social and economic system organized by a hierarchy of hereditary classes. Lower social orders owed lotyalty to the social classes above them, and in return, received protection and land to work

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First Continental Congress

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Early gathering of colonial delegates in 1774 that called for the repeal of all oppressive parliamentary laws since 1763

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Freeholds

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Land owned in its entirety, without feudal dues or landlord obligations. Freeholders had legal right to improve, transfer, or sell their landed property.

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French and Indian War

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Colonists’ name given to the 7 Years War in the colonies that strained the relationship of England to its colonies and marked the decline of relationships between Native Americans nad Europeans

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Gang Labor

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A particularl harch labor system that forced enslaved African Americans to work at a continuous pace throughout the day

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Gentility

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A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and stringly influenced leading colonists after 1700

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George Calvert

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The 1st Lord of Batlimore who, with his son Cecilius, the 2nd Lord of Baltimore, was instrumental in founding the city of Baltimore

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George Grenville

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Prime Minister of King George III who increased troops and taxes in the colonies after the French and Indian Wars; made many colonists believe colonial self-rule was under attack

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George Whitfield

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Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement

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Globalization

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The process of interaction and exchange between peoples and ideas from different parts of the globe, the extension of economic, political, and cultural relationships among nations, through commerce, migration, and communication.

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Glorious Revolution

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1688 rebellion in which members of Parliament ousted James II from the English throne and replaced him with WIlliam and Mary. Whig politicians forced the new monarchs to accept the Declaration of Rights, creating a contitutional monarchy that enhanced the power of teh House of Commons at the expense of the Crown. The Glorious Revolution led to greater political and commerical sutonomy for the British colonies.

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Government

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The leadership or elite in charge of running the state

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Great Awakening

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The first major series of American religious revivals; began in the 1720s and and ended in the 1750s

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Headwright System

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A grant system develoed in 1618 that allowed new settlers 50 acres of land in a variety of ways; use to increase the populaiton of Virginia and Chessapeake colonies; led to proliferation of indentrtured servants. Allowed large planters to amass huge landholdings as they imported large numbers of servants and slaves.

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Hernan Cortez

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Spanish explorer who intitiated colonization of the Yucatan penninsula by conquering Tenochtitlan and Moctezuma

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House of Burgesses

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Organ of government in colonial Virginia made up of an assembly of representatives elected by the colony’s inhabitants

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Household Mode of Production

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A system of exchanging goods and labor, managed largely through barter, that allowed individual freeholder households to function even as land became more scarce, and they became more specialized in what they produced. Whatever cash was obtained could be used to buy imported goods.

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Huguenots

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French Protestants who fought for religious liberties and were heavily persecuted during the 16th-17th Centuries in the predominantly Catholic nation of France

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Imperialism

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The process whereby an empire or nation pursues military, political and/or economic advantage by extending its rule over external territories and populations

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Impressment

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The act of forcing people to serve in a navy or other military operation; the term is most commonly used in connection with the actions of British fleets against American sailors in the 1800s. Was a major source of tension between America and Britain, and a cause of the War of 1812

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Indentured Servitude

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The condition of being bound to an employer for a specific period of time (usually 4-5 years), usually in exchange for the cost of passage to a new land and room & board upon arrival. The labor practice was most commonly used in Britain’s American colonies

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Indirect Democracy

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Democracy in which representatives of the public are responsible for government decision making

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Indulgences

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Payments to the Catholic Church as penance in exchange for the forgiveness of sins. Was among the most critical issues of the Protestant Reformation

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Inflation

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Market-wide increase in prices, leading to devaluation of currency

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Inquisition

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A religious and judicial institution designed to fins and eliminate beliefs that did not align with official Catholic practices. The Spanish Inquisition was first established in 1478

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Intolerable Acts

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The name by which colonists referred to the Coercive Acts

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Iroquois Confederacy

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Organization of the Native American nations that traded regularly with the French and English in the early colonial period, but their relationships with the colonists deteriorated during the mid-late 1700s. Included the Mowhak, Georgia, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscacora.

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Jacob Leisler

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Colonist who raised raised a militia in 1689 and proclaimed himself the head of government in New York

105
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James Oglethorpe

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Veteran British General who spearheaded the foudning of Georgia

106
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Jamestown

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First colonial settlement of the London Company in North America

107
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Jeremiad

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A sermon of despair at society’s lost virtue, usually warning about dire consequences in the world and the afterlife

108
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John Peter Zenger

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New York publisher tried for libel, whose case expanded free speech

109
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John Rolfe

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English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export

110
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John Smith

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World traveler whose leadership helped the Jamestown colony to survive

111
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John Wesley

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English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.

112
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John Winthrop

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Governor of Massachussetts Bay Colony who dominated both politics and religion. “Shining City on the Hill”

113
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Joint Stock Company/Corporation

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Financial instrument devised by English merchants around 1550 through which colonies were financed and established in the New World. A number of investors pooled capital and received (or lost) shares of stock in their enterprise in proportion to their share of total investment

114
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Jonathan Edwards

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New England Congregationalist preacher who was famous for vivid depictions of hell and damnation (“Fire & Brimstone”)

115
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King George III

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King of England in 1760 who wanted to reassert the crown’s authority; mentally unstable for most of his reign

116
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King Phillip’s War/Metacom’s War

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The most prolonged and deadly encounter between white settlers and Native Americans in the 17th Century. Pitted a coalition of Native Americans led by the Wampanoag leader Metacom against thr New England colonies in 1675-76.

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Laissez-faire

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Theory devised by French Enlightenment political economists (Physiocrats) meaning “let things alone”. Advocates of Laissez-faire believed that the marketplace should be left to regulate itself, allowing individuals to pursue their own self-interest without any government restraint of interference

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Leisler’s rebellion

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1689 class revolt by urban articsans and landlss renters in New York, inspired by the Glorious Revolution, and led by merchant Jacob Leisler. Urban artisans and landless renters rebelled against new taxes and centralized rule that had been imposed by King James II.

119
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Lexington & Concord

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The first shots fired in the Revolutionary War, an April 9, 1775, near Boston; approximately 100 Minutemen and 250 British soldiers were killed

120
Q

Libel

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A false written statement designed to damage the reputation of its subject

121
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Liberal Democracy

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A political system that promotes participation, competition, and liberty while emphasizing individual freedom and civil rights

122
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Liberalism

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1) A political tendency that favors evolutionary transformation; 2) (Classical liberalism) An ideological and political system that favors a limited state role in society and the economy, and places a high priority on individual and economic freedom

123
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Market

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The Interaction between the forces of supply and demand that allocates resources

124
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Massachusett’s Bay Company

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Group of Puritan merchants in England who organized a new colonial venture in America

125
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Mayflower Compact

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Document that the Pilgrims signed to establish a government for themselves in the New World

126
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Mercantilism

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The dominant European economic theory from the 16th-18th centuries holding that nations were in competition with one another for a finite amount of wealth, and that the state should maximize wealth by limiting its imports and establishing colonies that would serve as sites of extraction, cheap labor, and new markets foro export goods

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Mesoamerica

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Land area of the Archaic period including the lower portion of modern-day Mexico and Central America where many native societies flourished

128
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Mestizo

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A person of mixed European and American descent, traditionally in Spanish-speaking territories and nations

129
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Metacom

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Leader of an attempt by Native Americans in 17th Century New England to drive out English settlers and resist encroachment on their lands

130
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Methodism

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A form of Protestantism based on Pietist ideas, founded by Englishman John Wesley

131
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Middle Grounds

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Places where European and indigenous cultures interacted and where neither side had a military advantage

132
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Middle Passage

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The name given the brutal second leg of route used by slave ships between Africa and the Americas. Historians estimate that 12.5 Africans were carried to slavery along this rout, and 1.8 million Africans died before arriving in the Americas.

133
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Mission System

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System established by the Spanish in 1573 in which missionaries, rather than soldiers, directed all new settlements in the Americas

134
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Missionaries

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People who travel to foreign lands with the goal of converting its inhabitants to a new religion

135
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Nathaniel Bacon

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An English colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon died from dysentery.

136
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Nation

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A group of people bound together by by a common set of linguistic, historical, and cultural characteristics, as well as political aspirations, the most important of which is self-government

137
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Nation-State

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A geographically bounded space encompassing one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent

138
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Natural Rights

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The rights to life, liberty, and property. John Locke argued that political authority was not given by God or a monarch, but was instead derived from social compacts that people entered into to preserve their natural rights.

139
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Navigation Acts

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Three acts that Parliament passed in the 1650s-60s to regulate colonial commerce through the prohibition of smuggling, establishment of guidelins fo rlegal commerce, and setting duties on trade items

140
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Neo-Europeans

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Term for colonies in which colonists sought to replicate, or at least approximate, economies and social structures they knew at home

141
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New Light Clergy

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Colonial clergy who called for religious revivals and emphasized the emotional aspects of spiritual committment. The New Lights were leaders in the Great Awakening.

142
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New York Slave Revolt

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An uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than 70 black people were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed.

143
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Non-Importation Movement

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The effort to protest parliamentary legislation by boycotting British goods. This occurred in 1766, in response to the Stamp Act; 1768, after the Townshend duties; and in 1774, after the Coercive Acts.

144
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Old Light Clergy

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Colonial clergy from established churches who supported the religious status quo in the early 18th century. Genrally opposed the developments of the Great Awakening.

145
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Original Sin

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Christian belief that all humans are bron into sin because of the biblical sin of Adam eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden

146
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Parliamentary system

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A political system in which the roles of head of state and head of government are assigned to seperate executive offices (ex., King & Prime Minister)

147
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Patriarchal family

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Model of the family in which fathers have absolute authority over wives, children, and servants. Most colonial Americans accepted the patriarchal model of the family, at least as an ideal

148
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Patrick Henry

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Virginia politician who led the the fight against the Stamp Act and decleared supporters of Parliamentary taxes to be enemies of the colonies

149
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Patriots

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American colonists who favored the movement for independence during hte 1770s

150
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Patronage

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The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters.

151
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Paxton Boys

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A group of Pennsylvania fronteirsmen who demanded tax relief and massacred a member of Conestoga

152
Q

Peace of Paris

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1763 peace treaty ending the Seven Years War (French & Indian War). Under its terms, Britain gained control of North America east of the Mississippi River and of present-day Canada.

153
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Peasants

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Traditional term for farmworkers in Europe. Some peasants owned land, most leased ofr renter small plots from landlords

154
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Pedro Alvarez Cabral

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Portugese explorer who discovered Brazil in 1500

155
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Pequot War

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War in Connecticut during 1637 betwen English settlers, their Native allies (the Narragansett) and Pequot nation. The English viewed the Pequot as both a threat and an obstacle to their continued territorial advances.

156
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Pietists

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German Protestants who criticized the power of established churches and urged individuals to follow their heards rather than their heads in spiritual matters. Pietism had a profound influence on the leaders of the Great Awakening, in which emphasis was placed on Bible study, the conversion experience, and the indivisual’s personal relationship with God.

157
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Pilgrims

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Also known as Seperatists, a group of English religious dissenters who established a settlement in Plymouth, MA in 1620. Unlike more mainstream Protestants, the Pilgrims tried to sever all connection with the Church of England

158
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Plantation system

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A system of production characterized by unfree labor producing cash crops for distant markets. The plantation complex developed in sugar-producing areas of the Mediterrranean world and was transferred to the Americas, where it took hold in tropical and subtropical areas, including Brazil, the West INdies, and southeastern North America. In addition to sugar, the plantation complex was adapted to produce tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton.

159
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Planters

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White Southern Slave holders who owned the largest plantations and forged a distinct culture and economy around the institution of slavery.

160
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Plymouth Plantation

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First Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts

161
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Pocahontas

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A Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia

162
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Political Economy

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The power relations that mutually constitute the production, distribution and consumption of resources in a given society

163
Q

Political Ideology

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The basic values held by an individual about the fundamental goals of politics and the ideal balance of freedom and equality

164
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Poltics

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The struggle in any group for power that will give on e or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group

165
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Pontiac

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Ottowa chief who led a coalition of native nations to war against the British from 1763 to 1766; achieved some gains including pressuring the British to restrain their settlers from the trans-appalchian west, but eventually was undermined by internal divisions, disease, and the brutal violence of settlers and the British military

166
Q

Pope

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Native American religious leader who led a successful uprising against the Spanish in 1680

167
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Powhatan

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Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy and father of Pocahontas

168
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Powhatan Confederacy

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Large and powerful confederation of Algonquin-speaking American Indians in Virginia. The Jamestown settlers had a complicated and often combative relatoinship with the leaders of the Powhatan Confederacy

169
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Predestination

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Religious belief that God has pre-determined who is worthy of salvation, and thus it could not be be earned through good works or penance. Foundation of the Covenant of Grace.

170
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Primogeniture

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The right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent’s entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative.

171
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Proclamation of 1763

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Attempt by England to reduce violence between Native Americans and English colonists by legally barring settlement beyond the Appalachian mountains

172
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Proprietary Colonies

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A type of colonial administration in English America during the 17th century. In the English overseas possessions, all land belonged to the Crown, which held ultimate authority over their management.

173
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Protestant Reformation

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The schism in the Catholic Church that began in 1517 with Martin Luther and led to new forms of Christianity and new denominations under the genral umbrella of Protestantism (Calvinism, Lutheranism, Puritanism, etc)

174
Q

Pueblo Revolt

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1680 uprising of Pueblo Indians against Spanish forces in New Mexico that led to the Spaniard’s temporary retreat from the area. The uprising was sparked by mistreatment and the suppression of Pueblo culture and religion

175
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Puritan Migration

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The mass migration of Puritans from Europe to New England during the 1620s and 1630s

176
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Puritans

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A dissident sect of Protestants of England that wished to “purify” the Church of England of its Catholic ceremomies and practices, as well as its political and economic domination by the pope. Religious principles emphasized the importance of an individual’s relationship with God developed through Bible study, prayer, and introspection.

177
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Quakers

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Epithet used for members of the Society of Friends religious sect (because of their tradition of bodily “quaking” during religious ceremonies). Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an “inner light” and that neither the Bible nor ministers were essential to discovering God’s Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.

178
Q

Quartering Act

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A British law passed by Parliament at the conquest General Thomas Gage, the British military commander in America, that required coloial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.

179
Q

Radicalism

A

Political ideology that favors dramatic, often revolutionary change

180
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Reactionary

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Person or group who seek to restore the institutions of a real or imagined earlier order

181
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Redemptioners

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Inednutred servants in the Middle Colonies in the 18th Century who borrowed money from shipping agents to cover the costs of transport to America, but did not sign a contract before leaving Europe. Loans tat were repayed or “redeemed” by colonial employers. Redemptioners worked for their “redeemers” for a set number of years.

182
Q

Regulators

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Landowning protesters who organized in North and South Carolina in the 1760s and 1770s to demand that the eastern-controlled government provide western disctricts with more courts, fairer taxation, and greater representation in the assembly.

183
Q

Republic

A

Representative political system in which citizens govern themselves by electing representatives, or legislators, to make key decisions on the citizens’ behalf

184
Q

Republicanism

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Political theory in 18th Century England & America that celbrated active participation in public life by economically

185
Q

Requerimento

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A legal document issued by the Spanish crown in 1513 to justify the Spanish conquest of territory in the Americas.

186
Q

Revival

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A renewal of religious enthusiasm in a Christian congregation. In the 18th century, revivals were often inspired by evangelical preachers who urged their listeners to experience a rebirth.

187
Q

Revolution

A

Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing government and regime

188
Q

Roanoke

A

The first English colony attempted in North America

189
Q

Roger Williams

A

Controversial minister who established the Rhode Island colony wherre people of different faiths could worship without interference

190
Q

Royal colony

A

In the English system, a royal colony was chartered by the crown. The colony’s governeor was appointed by the crown and served according to the instrucitons of the Board of Trade

191
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Saluatory neglect

A

British colonial policy from around 1700-1760, during the reigns of George I & George II that relaxed supervision of internal colonial affairs as long as the North American colonies produced sufficient raw materials and revenue. By realxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs, royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America

192
Q

Second Hundred Years War

A

An era of warfare between England and France beginning in 1689 and lasting until 1815. In that time, England fought in 7 major wars; the longest period of peace lasted only 26 yrs.

193
Q

Sedition

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Language or behavior aimed at starting a rebellion against a governement

194
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Separate Spheres

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Widespread social belief that emerged in the late 1700s and early 1800s that men and women had seperate roles and should occupy separate places in society. According ot this belief, men should occuly the social public s[here and work, while women belonged in the domestic private sphere, caring for their family and household.

195
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Seven Years War

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(1754-1763) A global conflict between England, France, and Spain. Began in the colonies, where it was known as the French & Indian War, erupted in Europe in 1756, and ended with a French voctory in 1763. France ultimately ceded all of its North American territories to England and Spain, but the enormous cost of the war crippled the British economy, leading to increased taxation on its colonies.

196
Q

Slave Codes

A

Laws passed in the British colonies/American that: defined slavery as a distinct status based on racial identity, passed through future generations; granted slave holders absolute authority over enslaved people; restricted or eliminated enslaved peoples’ rights to speech, property, free movement and legal representation. Enacted largely due to slaveholders’ fears of rebellion, particularly after Bacon’s Rebellion.

197
Q

Society

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Complex human organizatoin, a collection of people bound by shared institutions that defined how human relations should be conducted

198
Q

Sons of Liberty

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Groups of male colonists who organized against England’s enforcement of the Stamp Act, didstributed anti-British propaganda, and occasionally harassed and attacked colonial officials

199
Q

South Atlantic System

A

A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice, and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market. Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.

200
Q

Sovereignty

A

The ability of a state to carry out actions or policies within a territory independently from external actors or internal rivals

201
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Squatter

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Someone who settles on land he or she does not own or rent. Many 18th Century migrants settled on land before it was surveyed and entered for sale, requesting the first right to purchase the land when sales began.

202
Q

Stamp Act

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Deeply unpopular act passed by English Prime Minister Grenville that required an official stamp on all paper documents in the colonies and united the colonies against England

203
Q

Stamp Act Congress

A

An assembly of 27 delegates from 9 colonies that met in October 1765 and petitioned Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act

204
Q

Stono Rebellion

A

1739 uprising by enslaved Africans and African Americans along the Stono River in South Carolina. A group of slaves armed themselves, plundered 6 plantations, and killed more than 20 colonists. In its aftermath, White fear of slave revolts in. creased dramatically.

205
Q

Subsistence Farming

A

Farmers who grow crops for their own needs rather than profits.

206
Q

Suffrage

A

The right to vote

207
Q

Sugar Act

A

The British act of 1764 designed to stop sugar smuggling in the colonies by lowering taxes on molasses but enforcing their payment and forcing compliance with trade laws

208
Q

Tariff

A

A tax on imported goods

209
Q

Tea Act

A

A 1773 act passed by England that gave the British East India Co. the right to export tea to the colonies without paying the same taxes that were imposed on colonial merchants; the act enraged American merchants and colonists boycotted tea

210
Q

Tenancy

A

The rental of property. To attract tenants in the Hudson River Valley, Dutch and English manorial lords granted long tenancy leases, with the right to sell improvements–houses and barns, for example, to the next tenant.

211
Q

Theocracy

A

A form of government in which political power is believed to derive from a deity, and in which religious and governmental structures are intertwined

212
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Toleration

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The allowance of different religious practices. Lord Baltimore persuaded the Maryland Assembly to enact the Toleration Act (1649), which granted all Christians the right to follow their beliefs and hold church services. The crown imposed toleration on the Massachusetts Bay Colony in its new royal charter in 1691.

213
Q

Town Meeting

A

System of local government in New England in which all male heads of households met regularly to elect selectmen; levy local taxes; and regulate markets, roads, and schools

214
Q

Townshend Duties

A

External taxes passed by England’s Charles Townshend that taxed goods imported to the colonies such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea; hated by the colonists, the taxes prompted violent protests and boycotts of Britsh goods, and were later repealed after a colonial boycott of British goods

215
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Treaty of Tordesillas

A

Signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa

216
Q

Treaty of Utrecht

A

1713 treaty that ended Queen Anne’s War. It aimed to acheive by balancing the interests of European powers and their colonial posessions.

217
Q

Triangular Trade

A

A simplified description of the complex treade networks of the Atlantic World; the triangle metaphor refers to the trade in rum, enslaved people, and sugar, between New England, Africa, and the West Indies

218
Q

Tuscarora Wars

A

War launched by Tuscarora Indians from 1711 to 1715 against European settlers in North Carolina and their allies from the Yamasee, Catawba, and Cherokee nations. The Tuscaroras lost their lands when they signed the peace treaty and many joined the Iroqois Confederacy to the North

219
Q

Tyranny

A

An unjust or oppressive form of rule

220
Q

Veto

A

The right to block a decision made by a governing body

221
Q

Virginia Company

A

An English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the object of colonizing the eastern coast of America. The coast was named Virginia, after Elizabeth I, and it stretched from present-day Maine to the Carolinas

222
Q

Virginia House of Burgesses

A

The first elected legislature in what would become the United States

223
Q

Virginia Resolves

A

Term used for a group of resolutions passed by the Virginia legislature declaring only the colonies’ governments had the right to tax colonists; first appearance of the notion of “taxation without representation”

224
Q

Virtual Representation

A

British political theory holding that members of Parliament represented all British subjects, not just those from the specific region that had elected them

225
Q

Vox Populi

A

A group of American colonists dedicated to repealing the Stamp Act. Took their name form the Latin phrase “voice of the people”

226
Q

Walking Purchase

A

1737 treaty that allowed Pennsylvania to expand its boundaries at the expense of the Delaware Indians. The treaty, likely a forgery, allowed the British to add territory that could be covered by foot in a day and a half.

227
Q

WiIliam Penn

A

Outspoken Quaker who led the colony of Pennsylvania after receiving a royal land grant

228
Q

William Berkley

A

Royal governor of Virginia during Bacon’s Rebellion

229
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WIlliam Bradford

A

An English Puritan Separatist, moved to Holland to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.

230
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Yamasee War

A

A Pan-American Indian War from 1715 to 1717 led by the Yamassee who intended, but failed, to oust the British from South Carolina

231
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Yeoman Farmer

A

Southern independent landowners who were not slaveholders. Although yeoman farmers had connections to the South’s plantation economy, many realized that their interests were not always aligned with those of the planter elite. The Yeoman farmer was the central, archetypal figure of the Jeffersonian vision of republican democracy.

232
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Zenger Trial

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One of the most important events in shaping American thinking toward freedom of speech prior to and after the adoption of the First Amendment.

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