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APUSH Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Vocabulary from chapter 4
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History
11th Grade
09/21/2011

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Dominion Of England
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the single administrative unit that King James II created in 1686
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Glorious Revolution
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teh revolution of 1688 in which Mary and Williams of Orange tried to attack England.
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English Bill of Rights
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The document signed by the English that said they had limited monarchy.
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Leisler's Rebellion
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the counterpart of the anti-Stuart uprising from the New Yorkers
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Protestant Reformation
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it was and a conspiration organized by John Coode and three others, against the catholic rulers in Maryland.
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King William's War
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the resulting of the League of Ausburb
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Queen Ann's War
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The war in 1702 erupted when england fought France and Spain in the war of the spanich succession
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Grand Settlement of 1701
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the five nations made peace with france and its indian allies in exchange for acess to western furs.
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Mercantilism
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The theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumulating bullion, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade
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Navigation Acts
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Britain's mercantilist policies governing commerce between ENgland and its colonies.
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Middle Passage
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The passage from Africa to America were African slaves were transported in big ships crammed beside each other.
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Stono Rebellion
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When 20 slaves from South Carolina seized guns and ammunitions from a store and walked as far as they could towards Florida picking up other slaves and burnning plantations along the way, then they were all killed and had the Brittish militia put their heads all the way to where they started.
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Tuscarora War
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the uprising of Iroquoian speaking TUscaroras when the whites enslaved some of their people, they attacked them and after losing about one fifth of the total population they surrendered and migrated up north to modern New York
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Yamasee War
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an uprising that took place between 1715 and 1716 in which the Yamasees and other allies including the Catawbas, Creeks, and other allies attacked English in North Carolina, but were later defeated by these because they became allies with the Cherokee
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Covenant Chain
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a series of treaties under which the confederacy helped the colonies subjugate Indians whose land they wanted.
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Walking Purchase
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a false treatie that was supposedly signed by the Indians in Delaware that said that the White men owned the land as far as a walk of a day and a half.
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James Oglethorpe
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one of the many trustees that migrated to Georgia to watch over the debtors from Europe and helped govern it.
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King George's War
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the war of austrian sucession
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Benjamin Franklin
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a printer, scientist, began the Philosophical Society
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George Whitefield
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a famous minister that was said to made crowds "swoon" just by talking
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