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Lesson 1, Part 2
Pre-Revolutionary American - Part 2
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Civics
10th Grade
02/04/2013

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Bacon's Rebillion
Definition
Early-American(1676) rebellion against British authority in Jamestown over economics and policy towards American Indians.
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town meetings
Definition
New England tradition where citizens vote on local issues by a simple majority of the whole.
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joint-stock colony
Definition
Colony funded by investors.
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royal colony
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A colony with a charter granted by the king.
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self-governing colony
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Colony that exercises political authority over itself.
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proprietary colony
Definition
Colony for which the king gave land for one or a few poeple to oversee.
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First Great Awakening
Definition
American evangelical religious movement of the eighteenth century.
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egaliterianism
Definition
The spread of equality.
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nationalism
Definition
Identification with and loyalty to one's country.
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House of Burgesses
Definition
First legislature in the New World.
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suffrage
Definition
Tight to vote.
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mercantilism
Definition
Early-modern European economic philosophy that supported the idea of creating colonies to get their natural resources.
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Salem Witch Trials
Definition
Trial in 1692 of citizens of Salem, Massachusetts, of witchcraft.
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