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| first governing document of Plymouth Colony, It was written by the Separatists, signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 |
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| religious conflicts during the High Middle Ages,goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem, |
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| The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s |
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| a group of people who wanted to separate from the church of england |
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| one of the 3 legislative acts of Massachusetts School Laws, historic first step to unavoidable state-directed communal education |
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| King of Spain (1556-1598)launched the Spanish Armada, |
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| main crop of the colonies |
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| launched the Spanish Armada, |
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| first person to drill for oil |
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| a teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord's Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn. |
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| the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770. |
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| merchant traveler, pioneering journey inspired Christopher Columbus |
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| the great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain against England in 1588: defeated in the Channel by the English fleets and almost completely destroyed by storms off the Hebrides |
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| last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20, |
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| stockbroker,built what was the world's largest collection of Imari porcelain, |
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| the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress |
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| a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents |
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| an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. |
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| a broad interpretation of a statute or document by a court |
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| a literal interpretation of a statute or document by a court |
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| The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party |
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| petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. |
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| t forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. |
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| minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century,Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed |
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