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30 Cards in this Set
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Bacon's Rebellion
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supported by young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land.
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Columbian Exchange
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transfer beginning with Columbus's first voyage-plants, animals, and diseases between the two hemispheres
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Declaratory Act
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asserted Parliament's full right to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever
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Encomienda
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a system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of native Americans as forced labor
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French and Indian War
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A conflict in America, 1754-1763, that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britian and that ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain
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Great Awakening
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a revival of religious feeling in the american colonies during the 1730s and 1750's
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House of Burgesses
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Virginia's colonial legislature, or law-making body. Served as the first representative body in colonial America. Jamestown
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Jamestown
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First American colony, unsuccessful at first.
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Joint-stock company
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Businesses in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose
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Merchantilism
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economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade
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proc. of 1763
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Prohibited colonial settlement west of the app. mts.
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Quakers
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world's first anti-slavery society. philiadelphia
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reformation
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a religious movement in the 16th century europe, growing out a a desire for reform in the roman catholic church and leading to the establishment of various protestant churches
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salem witch trials
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the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving massachusetts
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stamp act
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passed to raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense
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tea act
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devised by Lord North in order to save the nearly bankrupt british east india company. the act granted the company the right to sell tea to the colonies free of the taxes that colonial tea sellers had to pay.
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townshend acts
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passed in 1767, taxing goods that were imported from britain such as lead, glass, paint, and paper. also a tax on tea.
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war of jenkin's ear
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actually started when cpt jenkins had his ear cut off
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middle passage
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voyage that brought enslaved africans to the West Indies and later to North america
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boston massacre
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1770 clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in which 5 of te colonists were killed
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yorktown
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(1781) cornwallis surrendered to washington and colonists won war, cornwallis trapped in yorktown bc of armies all around
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valley forge
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freezing and lack of food supply; terrible conditions faced by colonists during winter
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patriots and loyalists
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pats: supported American independence from Britain PLoy.{ colonists ho supported the British gov't during the american revolution
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Egaliarianism
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belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social, and civil rights
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treat of paris
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1783- treaty that ended the rev. war, confirming the independence of the united states and setting the boundaries for the new nation
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federalism
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political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as state gonvernments, share power
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bill of rights (1791)
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first ten amendments to the constitution consisting of a formal list of citizens rights and freedoms
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impressment
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british forcible seizure of men for military service
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judicial review
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supreme court's power to declare an act of congress unconstitutional
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treal of tears
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(1838-1840) marches in which the cherokee people were forcibly removed from georgia to the indian territory with thousands of the cherokee dying on the way
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