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AMH Exam 1
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History
Undergraduate 2
09/26/2012

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Mayflower Compact
Definition

First document for the Puritans

(1620)

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Quakers
Definition

-Free, passive

-Settled in Pennsylvania

 

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Puritains
Definition

-religious based escaped from Britain

-threw out Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams and Thomas Hooker

-Winthrop was the leader

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Rhode Island
Definition
Founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
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Conneticuit
Definition
Founded by Thomas Hooker
Term

Coersive Acts

 

Definition

-Intolerable Acts

-Caused Declaration of Independence

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Declaratory Act
Definition
declared British Parliament had complete control
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Sugar Act
Definition
1st act that taxed a good
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Stamp Act
Definition

-repealed b/c of boycotts

-everything printed was taxed

 

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Tea Act
Definition

-taxed tea (Indian Tea Company)

-Liberty boys dressed up as indians and raided boats dumping 342 cases of tea into boston harbor

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William Penn
Definition

-founded Pennsylvania

-leader of Quakers

Term
US Government
Definition

had actual representation instead of virtual

 

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Boston Massacre
Definition

-Crispus Attucks

-mini mob broke out and 6 colonists shot by british soldiers

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French and Indian War
Definition

Fort Duquensne

-fort occupied by french when Washington asked them to leave

Term
Cornwallis
Definition

-Surrendered at Yorktown

-End of American Revolution

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Saratoga
Definition

-Turing point in war for US

-Victory made French join forces with US

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Battle of Bunker Hill and Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
Definition
Major loses of British
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Trenton
Definition
Battle Christmas Night
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Battle of Savanah
Definition
British Won
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Bacons Rebellion
Definition

-Nathaniel Bacon and local farmers burnt down Jamestown

-Ran out Royal Gov. Berkely

 

Term
Cromwell
Definition
British General
Term
North
Definition
indentured servants (not slaves)
Term
South
Definition

-Tobacco=main cash crop

-slave based

-agriculturally based

Term
Roanoke
Definition
first english settlement (all people left)
Term
Jamestown
Definition

-First permanent British Settlement

-English Trade Company (didnt prosper for 1st year)

Term
Proclamation of 1763
Definition

-line drawn down App. Mountains

-boundary for english settlement

 

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Oglethorp
Definition

-Founded Georgia

-debt relief colony

-bufferzone for Spanish- Florida

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Headrights System
Definition

-guaranteed land for settlers

-created to bring people over to colonies

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Maryland
Definition

-Founded by Lord Baltimore

-religiously tolerant

 

Term
Treaty of Paris
Definition
ended French and Indian War
Term
Washington
Definition
General of Continental Army
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Declaration of Independence
Definition
declared independence from Britain
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House of Burgesses 
Definition
first colonial assembly in America
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Navigation Acts
Definition
-put on colonists to restrict trade (exports and imports) to only British citizens
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