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Sumptuary Law
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laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption.
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Navigation Act
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a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651. Their goal was to force colonial development into lines favorable to England, and stop direct colonial trade with the Netherlands, France and other European countries.
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Staple Act
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A part of the Navigation Acts, required all staple crops produced in the colonies to be transhipped through England
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Plantation Duty
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A tax that had to be payed by the planters so as to close the loophole that many merchants were using to sell their goods to other countries
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Half-Way Covenant
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a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose. First-generation settlers were beginning to die out, while their children and grandchildren often expressed less religious piety, and more desire for material wealth.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
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Great Migration
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The Puritan migration to New England was very marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a while. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands of the West Indies, especially the sugar rich island of Barbados, 1630-40. They came in family groups, rather than as isolated individuals and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.
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Charles II
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monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He took over after the commonwealth period ended and reinstated the line of stuart monarchs
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Royal Africa Company
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slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants once the former retook the English throne in the English Restoration of 1660. It was led by James, Duke of York, Charles II's brother.
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Stono Uprising
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a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
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Mercantilism
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an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of capital, that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable," and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another
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Sir William Berkeley
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colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors of the Colony of Carolina; he was appointed to these posts by by King Charles I of England, of whom he was a favourite
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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There was an elite planter class that was really wealthy, a freeman class that lived on the edge of poverty, and the slave class that had nothing
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)
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In England, the Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of king James II and replacing him with the monarchs from Holland, William and Mary. The Glorious Revolution of New York was violent and can also be referred to as Leisler's Rebellion. In this uprising, Leisler and his followers took control of the local fort and tried to run the city. He never established a secure political base and his rule fell apart as soon as support from England arrived.
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Slave Trade
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lave systems in historical perspective in which one human being is legally the property of another, can be bought or sold, is not allowed to escape and must work for the owner without any choice involved.
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Jacob Leisler
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a German-born American colonist. He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688 and later served as the acting Lieutenant Governor of New York. Beginning in 1689, he led an insurrection dubbed Leisler's Rebellion in colonial New York, seizing control of the colony until he was captured and executed in New York City for treason against William and Mary.
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Cotton Mather
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honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.
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John Winthrop
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one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I. In 1630 he led a group of colonists to the New World, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River.
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Enumerated Goods
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Certain essential raw materials produced in the North American colonies, such as tobacco, sugar and rice specified in the Navigation Acts, which stipulated that these goods could be shipped only to England or its colonies.
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Nat Turner
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an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths[2], the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.
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Jamestown Massacre
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he Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the Colony of Virginia, in what now belongs to the United States of America, on Friday, March 22, 1622. Though he had not been in Virginia since 1609 and was thus not a firsthand eyewitness, Captain John Smith related in his History of Virginia that the Indians "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us".[1] Suddenly the Indians grabbed any tools or weapons available to them and killed any English settlers that were in sight, including men, women and children of all ages. Chief Opechancanough led a coordinated series of surprise attacks of the Powhatan Confederacy that killed 347 people, a quarter of the English population of Jamestown.
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon.
About a thousand Virginians rose because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans. When Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements, others took matters into their own hands, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and torching the capitol. |
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Edmund Andros
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an early colonial English governor in North America, and head of the Dominion of New England for most of its three-year existence. He also governed at various times the provinces of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland, and the isle of Guernsey. His rule of Puritan New England was especially unpopular; when news of the Glorious Revolution reached Boston in 1689, he was arrested and sent back to England.
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Restoration
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The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The term Restoration may apply both to the actual event by which the monarchy was restored, and to the period immediately following the event.
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King James War
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The time when William and Mary were invading England, aka the Glorious Revolution
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William and Mary
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monarchs of Holland that took over after the overthrow of King James, they were Protestants.The phrase William and Mary usually refers to the coregency over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, of King William III and Queen Mary II. Their joint reign began in February 1689, when they were called to the throne by Parliament, replacing James II & VII, Mary's father and William's uncle/father-in-law, who was "deemed to have fled" the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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Puritan Commonwealth
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The period of time in which all the northeastern colonies were under the rule of one governor, as one royal colony.
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