Unit 1: Important Events Flashcards
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Mayflower Compact
After the Pilgrims landed in Maryland, they started to make the document to prevent anarchy, 41 men agreeing on November 11 to “covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politik”
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The principle document of Connecticut, ordered for elections to be called by the people and set rules, that people were free-er, and made set rules of what the government and taxes work as.
Great Puritan Migration
John Winthrop the SUPER Puritan went to America because England church was being stupid (#corruption). Then everyone was American. The end.
Regulator movement
Gentry revolting against the corrupt upper class, was a direct movement toward removing some of the corruption in the government, was considered one of the first steps of the revolution, with the same people standing up to the smaller government was similar to standing up to the revolution.
Navigation Acts
Set of acts restricting trade and manufacturing in the colonies, all to the greater profit of England and the official implementation of Mercantilism.
The Great Awakening
This was the great spiritual increase across America and Europe, Puritan increase of thinking and spiritualism was ushered in more through charismatic and far reaching preachers bringing more ideas across the colonies.
Proclamation of 1763
Drew a line at the Appalachian mountains saying settlers can’t cross it, created after acquisition of Canada, to stabilize relations with Indians after tensions between them with the whole war they had been thrust into.
Molasses Act
Made it so that all non-British molasses shipments had a large tax to make sure that the colonists bought British goods, and to make sure that they kept ahead of the competitors in the West Indies.
Maryland Act of Religious Toleration
Act to say that if you discriminate against any other sect of Christianity, or speak out against anything about religion, you will get punished in a variety of ways, decreasing religious tension in the diverse area.
Bacon’s Rebellion
A product of mistrust in the gentry and the want of wealth by one Bacon, along with mistrust with the Indians and what the people wanted to do. The governor didn’t do a counterattack, to presumably protect his own interests, so a civil war between Bacon and Berkley over what they should do for the situation, and was a directionless sort of war between the two sects, leading to the burning down of Jamestown.
