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Ch. 2 Column 3 Terms
For Coach Ray's class
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10th Grade
09/14/2010

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Quakers
Definition
Members of Religious Society of Friends
Believed in equality of men and women, nonviolence, no military, religious auth. was personal
Were persecuted
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William Penn
Definition
Quaker convert
Obtained Pennsylvania in 1681 from royal family
Made frame of government and charter of liberties
Set up street grid
Enact liberal ideas for gov., refuge for quakers, make profits
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Holy experiment
Definition
Penn's colony where he tested ideas of quakers
liberal ideas of gov, refuge for quakers, making profits
Made frame of government 82-83 and charter of liberties 1701
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Frame of Government 1682-1683
Definition
Formed by William Penn for his colony and it guaranteed a representative assembly elected by the landowners
1st-3rd frame
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Charter of Liberties 1701
Definition
Written constitution by William Penn for his colony
It guaranteed freedom of worship to all and unrestricted immigration
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Delaware
Definition
Colony formed in 1702 after William Penn allowed the bottom 3 counties to form an assembly
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Georgia
Definition
Formed by philantropists led by James Oglethorpe. It was used as a barrier between Spanish Florida and South Carolina and to hold people who were in debt
Savannah was first settlement in 1733
Became royal colony in 1752
No rum, no slaves at first
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James Oglethorpe
Definition
Led a group of philanthropists in founding Georgia (Savannah in 1733)
He set up plan to make it successful
He was first governor.
In 1752 they gave up
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Merchantilism
Definition
economic policy in 1600s that most major euro. kingdoms used
states that wealth, colonies, and trade determnined a countries military and politacl strength.
Colony gives things to parent land
Goal is to be self sufficient
Term
Navigation Acts
Definition
Rules for colonies from Eng.
1. Trade was to be with colonies and england ships and their crews
2. All goods (except perishables) could only pass through Eng. ports
3. Specified goods could only go to Eng.
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Dominion of New England
Definition
Combination of New York, New Jersey, and other N. Eng. colonies by King James II because he wanted more control
Sir Edmund Andors became governor. Fell after James II fell after Glorious Revolution
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Sir Edmund Andros
Definition
Man who became the governor of the Dominion of New England and became hated quickly by levying taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles
Term
Glorious Revolution
Definition
Revolt against King James II after he tried to assert his power
William and Mary took over
Partially because James was Catholic
Term
Triangular trade
Definition
Trade routes of merchants in 1600s etc
Went to africa with rum and traded for slaves.
Went to w indies in middle passage and traded africans for sugar
Went to N Eng. Colonies and traded sugar for money
Term
slave trade
Definition
traded because of reduced miggration from eng.
dependable
cheaper
Laws made them slaves for life and their children slaves, baptism did nothing and could not intermarry
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Middle Passage
Definition
2nd part of triangular trade where the slaves from africa are transported across the atlantic to the w indies traded for sugar
15% died aboard
Disease, starvation, etc
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