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27 Cards in this Set
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Sumptuary Law
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A law restricting surpluses and luxuries
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Navigation Act
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Restricted foreign shipping, promoted mercantilism and attempted to eliminate the Dutch competition
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Staple Act
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An addition to the Navigation Acts which state that, with only a few exceptions, nothing could be imported to America unless it had been through England.
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Plantation Duty
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A payment that England made colonists pay on imports
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Half-Way Covenant
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An extension of the puritan church that allowed those that had not been truly converted to become members of the church
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Disagreed with the government and started Bacon's Rebellion
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Great Migration
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The migration of Puritan families to New England, seeking religious freedom.
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Charles II
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Was defeated by Oliver Cromwell, which initiated the English Commonwealth period. After Cromwell's death, Charles was invited back to England.
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Royal Africa Company
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A slave company set up by the Stuarts and London merchants after the Stuarts retook the throne in the Reformation
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Stono Uprising
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Largest rebellion of slaves; 20 slaves started rampaging and killing white men and more slaves eventually joined
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Mercantilism
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A system to keep the money circulating within one Empire, with the motherland becoming the richest
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Sir William Berkeley
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Governor of VA, was fought against in Bacon's Rebellion
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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The plantation class was the richest, but there was a huge gap between them and the freedmen. Freedmen weren't much better off than the slaves and had little chance to become as wealthy as planters.
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)
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In New York, the people rose against the Royal government. Jacob Leisler took the throne, but was removed shortly after. In Maryland, the king and queen supported the revolt and removal of the Catholic Calverts from power, but they came back into power after renouncing Catholicism
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Slave Trade
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Slaves originally came over to replace the Indian laborers, but their numbers rapidly increased as less indentured servants came. As more came, the laws governing them got stricter.
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Jacob Leisler
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A german immigrant that came into power after the Glorious Revolution. Was executed after the crown retook controlled.
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Cotton Mather
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A minister and judge in the Salem Witch Trials
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John Winthrop
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Kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony for being a heretic and founded Rhode Island
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Enumerated Goods
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Listed goods that did not have to pass through an English Port
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Nat Turner
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Slave who led a rebellion in Virginia, resulting in 111 total deaths
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Jamestown Massacre
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Powhatan Indians attacked the Virginia Colony in 1622 and killed 347 people
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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Nathaniel Bacon led an assault of about 1000 Virginians against the governor William Berkeley, because the despised the policies he took towards Indians
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Edmund Andros
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Governed several different colonies in America, but was sent back to England after Boston learned of the Glorious Revolution
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Restoration
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Charles II led the restoration of monarchical control over every place governed under England.
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King James War
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War between the English and the Spaniards
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William and Mary
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Joint rulers over England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 (William ruled without Mary until 1702), signed the English Bill of Rights that inspired Colonists to revolt against James II
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Puritan Commonwealth
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Puritans almost had a classless system, where church leaders were the only rulers and even then they weren't much richer than common folk
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