Acc History Chapter 3&4

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Witherspoon Family

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-Great Britian to South Carolina
- feared they would be killed by Indians, become lost in the woods, or be bitten by snakes

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New England families

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-successfully replicated in america a trad. social order they had known in England

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Marriages and Dowry

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-single life frowned upon and wouldnt work
-dowry: apporx. one-half what the bridegroom ofdered. women often contributed money or household goods

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Kinship network benefits

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-intermarried families
-dominated local politics and economic affairs for several generations

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Education and creation of schools

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-primarily a family responsibility(to read and write)
-legislature ordered towns containig atleast 15 familes to open elem. schools
-Harvard ( 1st institiution of higher learning)

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Congregational churhes

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-women dominated churches
- minister said "far more godly women" than men

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Half-way Convenant

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-grandchildren of persons in full communion to be bapatized even though their parents could not demonstrate conversion

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Women in New England

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-worked on family farms
-cooking,washing, clothe making, dairying, & gardening
-sold poultry
- joined churches in a greater number than men

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Womens rights over property, marriage dissolution grounds

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-no control over property
-divorce was extremely diff. to obtain
-if with irresponsible spouse ahd little recourse but to run away or accept the unhappy situation

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Social Hierarchy in New England

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-both regions settlers spoke English,accepted Protestantism, and gave allegiance to one crown
-looked nothing alike

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Families in Cheasapeake colonies

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-young unmarried servants
-youths cut off from the security of traditional kin relations
-high death rate

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Chesapeake women

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-in great demand because of death rate
-hightened the womens power in the marriage market
-child birth was dangerous

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Chesapeake Bay Staple

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-people who survived grew what tobacco they could

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Freemen

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-formed largest class in chesapeake society
-traveled to the new world ar indentured servants
-most lived on the edge of poverty

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Indentured servants and labor contracts

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-below freeman
-recieved decent food and clothes
-most lived till end of contracts

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Slavery

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-1st slaves in US in Virgina 1619 (cargo stolen from a Dutch trader)
-total : 11 million blacks
-wanted young males

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Reason to enslave the "heathens"

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-English associated blacks with heathen religion, barbarous behavior, sexual promiscuity and all around evil
-racist perspective made enslaving seem unobjectional

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Royal African Company 1672

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-made to meet the colonial planters demands for black laborers
-" the strongest and most effective of all European companies formed exckusivelt for thr African trade"

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Slave Experience Variation

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-South : more populated; larger crops ;isolated; contact with whites is limited
-North : smaller pop.; contact with white frequently ; limited assoc. with other blacks

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Creation of African American

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- not African nor european traditions = African American

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Stonos Uprising 1739

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-150 south carolina blacks uprose
-seized guns& ammunition
-murdered several white planters
-marching toward promised freedom (Florida)
-local militia stopped them

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Commercial Empire in America

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-private companies and aristocratic proprietors had created these societes some for profit and others for religious sanctuary

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Response to threat to natural resources of America

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-Mercantilism

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Navagation Act 1660

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-attempted to eliminate the Dutch
-made bt America 75% English
-certain goods from England could only be given to English colonies or ports

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Staple Act 1663

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-nothing could be imported into America unless it had first been transshipped through England, a process that greatly added to the price ultimately paid by colonial consumers

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Act of 1696 & Act of 1673

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1696
-last major piece of imperial legislation
-expanded the american customs service and set up vice-admiralty courts in the colonists
1673( Navigation Act)
-plantation duty, a sum of money equal to normal English customs duties to be collected on enumerated products at the various colonial ports

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Bacons Rebellion 1676

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-denied fur licences
-given bad land
-wanted more
-burned Jamestown to the ground

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Edward Randolph and the Bay colony

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-demanded full compliance with the Navigation acts

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Salem Witch Trials

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-reports of dreams and visions in which the accused appeared at the devils agent
-girls were accusing

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688

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-overthrow of King James II of England by English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadholders ( William of Orange)

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Sir Edmund Andros

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-an english colonial administrator in North America
-governer of the Dominion of New England during of it 3 year existence

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Transportation Act 1718

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-convicts taken to US from Britian

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Benjamin Franklin

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-investigation of electricity
-lightning rod
-stove

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Great Awakening

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-protestant
-religious revivals

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Albany Plan 1754

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-important proposal to create a unified government
-suggested by Benjamin Franklim

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French and Indian War

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-against Europeans
- " Seven Years War"
-France ceded its territory east of the mississipi to G.B

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NA in 1800

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-went with whoever gave protection
-five strongest ( Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Shawnee)

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Wars

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- 1689 - King Williams War
- 1702-13 - War of Spanish Succession ( Queen Anne)
- King Georges War
- Seven Years War