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Virginia Company
first permanent English colony |
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| Pilgrims Mayflower Compact |
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Massachusetts Bay Company; Puritans |
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| Lord Baltimore first proprietary colony; only Catholic colony |
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| Roger Williams religious toleration |
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| Thomas Hooker Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| Sweden under English rule from 1664 |
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proprietary North and South given separate charters in the
18th century |
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Duke of York under Dutch control as New Amsterdam from
1621 to 1664 |
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| John Mason royal charter in 1679 |
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| Berkeley and Carteret overshadowed by New York |
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| William Penn proprietary colony; settled by Quakers |
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| James Oglethorpe buffer against Spanish Florida |
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An interpretation of Puritan beliefs that stressed God’s gift of salvation and minimized
what an individual could do to gain salvation; identified with Anne Hutchinson. |
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Under the English navigation Acts, those commodities that could be shipped only to
England or other English colonies; originally included sugar, tobacco, cotton, and indigo.
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Religious revival movement during the 1730s and 1740s; its leaders were George
Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards; religious pluralism was promoted by the idea that all
Protestant denominations were legitimate.
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Settlement of over twenty thousand Puritans in Massachusetts Bay and other parts of
New England between 1630 and 1642.
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In 1662, Puritans permitted the baptized children of church members into a “half-way”
membership in the congregation and allowed them to baptize their children; they still could
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Method of attracting settlers to Virginia; after 1618, it gave fifty acres of land to anyone
who paid for their own passage or for that of any other settlers who might be sent or
brought to the colony.
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individuals who sold their labor for a fixed number of years in return for passage to the
colonies; indentured servants were usually young, unemployed men and could be sold.
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The company sold shares of stock to finance the outfitting of overseas expeditions;
colonies founded by joint-stock companies included Jamestown (Virginia Company) and
New Amsterdam (Dutch West India Company.
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Economic policy that held that the strength of a nation is based on the amount of gold and
silver it has; also, that the country needs a favorable balance of trade and that colonies
exist for the good of the mother country as a source of raw materials and a market for
manufactured goods. |
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The sea route followed by slave traders from the west coast of Africa to the Western
Hemisphere.
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A colony founded as a grant of land by the king to an individual or group of individuals;
Maryland (1634) and Carolina (1663) were proprietary colonies, as was Pennsylvania
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Dissenters who sought to “purify” the church of England from within and who initially
populated much of New England.
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Those who wanted to break all connections with the Church of England as opposed to
most Puritans who believed it was possible to reform the church; the Pilgrims were
Separatists. |
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Trade pattern that developed in the colonies; New England shipped rum to the west coast
of Africa in exchange for slaves |
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expanded the list of enumerated
articles; stricter enforcement of trade regulations.
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colonies prohibited from issuing
paper money. |
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tax on printed materials and legal
documents.
Virginia Resolves; Stamp Act Congress; Sons of
Liberty |
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colonies to provide British
troops with housing and provisions.
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external taxes on colonial
imports.
Non-importation agreements; Letters of a Farmer in
Pennsylvania
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monopoly to East India Company for
tea sold in the colonies. Boston Tea Party |
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British response to the Boston Tea Party, intended to punish Boston.
First Continental Congress |
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Committees of
Correspondence
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First established in Boston in 1772, the committees became a way for the colonies to state
and communicate their grievances against Great Britain.
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Term used by historians to describe the United States under the Articles of Confederation.
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British-imposed tax directly on the colonies that was intended to raise revenue; the Stamp
act was the first attempt by Parliament to impose a direct tax on the colonies.
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A European intellectual movement that stressed the use of human reason.
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A measure that raised revenue through the regulation of trade--the Sugar Act, for
example.
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Also known as Tories, the term refers to those Americans who remained loyal to Great
Britain during the Revolution.
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Those rights that the Enlightenment (and Jefferson’s Declaration) saw as inherent for all
humans and that government is not justified in violating.
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Non-importation
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A form of protest against British policies; colonial merchants refused to import British
goods.
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The British argument that the American colonies were represented in Parliament, since
the members of Parliament represented all Englishmen in the empire.
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Idea that concentrated power leads to corruption and tyranny; emphasis on balanced
government where legislatures check the power of the executive.
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General search warrants employed by Britain in an effort to prevent smuggling in the
American colonies.
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“No taxation
without
representation”
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The assertion that Great Britain had no right to tax the American colonies as long as they
did not have their own representatives in the British Parliament |
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| is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, |
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| The uprising was a protest against Native American raids on the frontier, led by Nathaniel Bacon |
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Great Biological Exchange
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| was when the Europeans first contacted the New World |
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| was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement |
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| was a longitude, moved slightly from the line drawn by Pope Alexander VI to divide new lands claimed by Portugal from those of Spain |
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| the painting of Edward Hicks |
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| divided the "newly discovered" lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a north-south meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa). |
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| commonly known as the Quakers or Friends, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. |
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| 90 men, 17 women and 9 children, founded in 1587 and discovered to be missing in 1590 |
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Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
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| allowed freedom of worship for all Christians in Maryland, but sentenced anyone to death who denied the divinity of Jesus. |
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| refers collectively to a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I in 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
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| It was a Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford and was similar to the government Massachusetts had set up. |
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Virginia House of Burgesses
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| was the first elected lower house in the legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. |
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| was one of a number of land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England in the latter half of the 17th century, ostensibly as a reward to his supporters in the Stuart Restoration |
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| was a leader of the Separatist settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts |
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| was a short-lived administrative union of English colonies in the New England region of North America. |
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| Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth |
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| led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630, and joined the Massachusetts Bay Company |
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| His work as a whole is an expression of two themes — the absolute sovereignty of God and the beauty of God's holiness. wrote city apon a hill |
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| was an Anglican itinerant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in Great Britain |
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| were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Salem |
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| was an uprising led by Jacob Leisler, who seized control of lower colonial New York from 1689 to 1691. |
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| was an English theologian, a notable proponent of religious toleration and the separation of church and state and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans. |
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| was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. |
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| was a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader and the pre-eminent founder of the Colony of Connecticut. |
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| was an armed conflict in 1634-1638 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes), against the Pequot tribe. |
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| ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France |
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| was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676. |
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