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05/03/2009

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Governor Berkeley
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Virginia governor who crushed Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
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British Constitution
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Principles, precedure, and precedents that governed the operations of the British government.
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Virtual Representation
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British belief that all peoples of the British Empire were represented by the parliament, whether or not they elected delgates from their own regions.
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James Oglethorpe
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Founder of the Georgia colony, where he supported a ban on slavery and hard liquor, as well as a 500 acre limitation on land ownership
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Thomas Paine
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British philosopher and writer who asserted England exploited American colonies and contributed nothing to their well-being.
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Albany Plan of Union
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Inter-colonial union that would administer taxes, trade, Native American policy and deense in 1754
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Pontiac
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Leader of the Ottawa Nation, he led a final, unsuccessful push to expel the British from the Ohio Valley
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Natural Rights
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Philosophy stating individuals had inherent access to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Courtesy Books
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Contained instruction on the finer points of high society so wealthy colonist could become "civilized".
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Stono Uprising
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South Carolina slave uprising that killed about twenty whites and shattered the complacency of the American colonies before being brutally suppressed.
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"Salutary neglect"
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Name associated with the period after the Glorious Revolution that allowed colonies to operate virtually without British influence.
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Continental Association
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Provided for the renewal of the trade boycott and sustem of committes to ignore royal authority.
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Tories
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Supporters of King George III and English Rule
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Writs of Assistance
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Documents allowing British officials to search for smuggled goods in the colonies.
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Metacom
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Leader of a 1675 Indian uprising in New England
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Quiet Period
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Period between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party
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Quakers
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Religious group persecuted in England for refusing to pay tithes, refuse to join army, or swear allegiance to the king; believed equality of all before God and on earth
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Olive Branch Petition
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Resolution in 1775 asking King George III to prevent hostilities until a peaceful agreement could be reached between colonists and England
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John Dickinson
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Plantation owner who penned Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylania, which was published in area newspapers in opposition to the Townshend duties.
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Treaty of Lancaster
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1744 agreement between Iroquois and Virginia land speculators allowing trade in the Ohio Country.
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Enumerated Goods
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Trade items decreed in the Navigation Act of 1660 that could only be sent to England or her colonies.
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The Enlightenment
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Far-reaching intellectual movement, begun in Europe and trasmitted to America. Its greatest significance for Americans was the philosophy of natural rights.
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Bunker Hill
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First large-scale battle of the Revolution
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Importation Movement
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Economic pressures put on British merchants by refusing to buy their exports to the colonies.
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Dominion of New England
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King James' attempt to combine the New England colonies and this limit their autonomy.
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Aristotle
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First person to demostrate that the earth was round.
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John Cabot
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Venetian employed by the English who clamed New England for Henry VII.
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Joint Stock Company
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Business ventrue in which a group of investors pool their resources to fund colonization.
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Songhai(y)
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West African empire where Islam flourished and Timbuktu became a great cultural center.
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Olmec
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The oldest Mesoamerican civilization dating to 1400 b.c.e known for large sculptures of heads.
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rinascita
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Word that translates in the French language to "rebirth"
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Zapotec
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Culture that built Monte Albán, the first city constructed in the Americas
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Hundred Year's War
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Conflict between France and England during the years 1337 to 1453
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Reformation
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Movement led by Martin Luther to return the Catholic Church to the purer practices and beliefs of the early church. Led to the rise of protestantism.
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Anasazi
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Lived in town of terraced stone or in adobe apartment blocks built around central plazas C.A. 700 a.d.
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Headright System
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Incentive for colonization in Virginia where fifty acres of land would be given to anyone who paid their own way to the colony and an additional fifty acres for each person brought with them.
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Cahokia
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One of the largest cities in the last mound-building empire of the Mississippian culter.
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House of Burgesses
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The earliest American assembly organized in 1619
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Popay
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Leader of the Pueblo resistance in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
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Tenochtitlán
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The Aztec's capital City
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Vasco Núnez de Balboa
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First European to see the Pacific Ocean
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Maya
Definition
Lived in the region that is now eastern and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Slavador, and western Hondoras.
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Samuel de Champlain
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Founded the first year round settlement in Canada
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Sir Francis Drake
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"The Queen's Privateer", sailed up the California coast to 48 degrees latitude.
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Henry the Navigator
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Prince of Portugal who opened a school of navigation to promote exploration.
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Huguenots
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French Protestants who established Fort Caroline in Florida only to be eradicated by the Spanish.
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Mogollon
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Major southwestern culture of the United States, ad 300 to 1200, who then returned to Mexico
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Reconquista
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Period ending in 1492 that removed the final Muslim occupiers from Spain
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Eratosthenes
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First person to accurately calculate the circumference of the earth.
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Hudson Bay Company
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Began in 1670, this English business traded in the northern regions of North America.
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Edmond Charles Genet
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French envoy sent to secure the help of the United States in France's war against England and Spain
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Sedition Act
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Baned writing, speaking, or publishing anything of a "false, scnadalous and malicious" nature against the president or Congress
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James Madison
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Believed in system of government with checks and balances but felt "Pure Democracies" in which the people ruled directly have ever been spectables of turbulance and contention"
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Federalists
Definition
Group favoring ratification of the new Constitution
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Shays' Rebellion
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Uprising by Massachusetts farmers over legislative reforms and easing of debt.
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Caron de Baumarchais
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French envoy to the American rebels who provided arms, ammunition, and supplies to the Revolutionary effort.
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Trade and Intercourse Acts
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Pact ceding the Northwest Territory to the United States
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John Jay
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A federalist who pushed for ratification of the Constitution using a series of essays promoting its passage.
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Treaty of Amity and Commerce
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Recognized America as an independant state and offered an alliance and trade concessions in their war against Britain
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Three-Fifths Compromise
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Agreement allowing southern states to count portions of slave populations in ascertaining number of representatives to Congress.
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New Jersey Plan
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The response of the small states, it pushed for equal representation and a one-house Congress.
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Articles of Confederation
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America's first system of government giving equal power to states and little power to the Revolutionary effort.
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Treaty of Greenville
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Established federal control over Native American Tribes.
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Great Compromise
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Agreement reached between the large and small states at the Constitutional Convention establishing a legislative branch of government containing two houses of Congress
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Bill of Rights
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The first ten amendments to the Contitution, passed to satisfy the Anti-federalists
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Republicanism
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Concept that sovereignty resides in the people, who delegate the power to rule in their behalf to elected representatives and officials
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John Dickinson
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Main author of the "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union"
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Anti-Federalists
Definition
Opponents who believed the new Constitution took too much power from the individual states
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Hartford Convention
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Meeting to formulate frievances of the Federalists against the War of 1812.
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Alien Act
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Gave the president power to expel or arrest non-citizens.
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Virginia Plan
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Constitutional Convention proposal favoring a bicameral legislature based on delgates chosen by population.
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Nationalists
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Military officers, diplomats, and others who saw the need for strong central control over disposition of western lands, tariffs and commercial policies, and dealings with foreign states.
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Annapolis Convention
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Meeting in 1786 to establish changes to the Articles of Confederation that would lead to a Constitutional Convention.
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Machiavellian Principle
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A good object of state justified the employment of any means
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The Federalists Papers
Definition
Series of eighty-five essays published in newspapers arguing in favor of the Constitution
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