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New England religious denomination that wanted to create a "city upon a hill."
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Puritans
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The "Society if Friends" is better known by this name.
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Quakers
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Servants who would come to the American colonies and work for a period of time, usually 7 years, in return for passage over
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Indentured servants
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This daughter of Powatan allegedly saved John Smith's life.
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Pocahontas
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These acts, first passed in the 1660's, were intended to help England achieve economic self-sufficienct by restricting colonial trade to the home islands.
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Navigation Acts
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The Puritans, with their restrictive religious beliefs, banished these two dissenters, in the 16030's to Rhode Island.
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Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams |
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In VA, the leader of this rebellion rose up and temporarily ousted the royal governor and burned Jamestown in 1676.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Act passed in Maryland in 1649 that granted freedom of wrship to all Christians.
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Act of Toleration
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Chief body in England for governing the colonies; the group gathered information, reviewed appointments in America and advised the monarch on colonial policy.
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Board of Trade and Plantations
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Autocratic and unpopular goernor of the Dominion of New England; he was toppled from power and was caught tryying to make his escape dressed as a woman.
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Edmund Andros
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Religious revival of the colonies in the 1730's/ George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards
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Great Awakening
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Puritan response to children born to non-church members who wanted to be baptized.
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Halfway Covenant
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First popularly-elected lefislative assembly in America; Jamestown 1619
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House of Burgesses
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Written agreement in 1620 to create a body politic among male settles in Plymouth- it was the forerynnner to charters and constitutions that were eventually adopted in all colonies.
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Mayflower Compact
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Economic doctrine called the mother country to dominate and regulate its colleagues, the system fixed trade patterns, high tariffs, and discouraged manufacturing in the colonies
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mercantilism
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Govt organized and administered by the church.
MA colony, only men could vote |
theocracy
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Slave rebellion in SC in september in 1739, 7 plantations burned, 20 whites killed by slaves
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Stono Rebellion
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THis proclamation forbade colonial settlement west of the Applachian Mtns
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Proclamation of 1763
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This congress petitioned the king to repeal the Stamp Act and issued a boycott of British goods
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Stamp Act Congress
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In this event, the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of tea by throwqing them into the Boston Harbor
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The Boston Tea Party
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A turning point in the Rev, Oct 1777 when an army of 6000 british soldiers surrendered inNy- led to Franco-American Allianc eof 1777
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Battle of Saratoga
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Confrontation between British soldiers and American citizens in March 1770, Boston, troops shot and killed 5
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Boston Massacre
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King of England during the American Rev. Didn't support colonist rights
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George III
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Cosnervative leader whio wrote letters from a farm from S. Penn. He urged consiliation with England, and opposed the Dec. of Independence.
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John Dickinson
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English philospher who wrote that government had the duty to protect life, liberty and property
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John Locke
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Agitator and leader of the Sons of Liberty
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Samuel Adams
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Writer of Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
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Strong nationalist, 1st secretary of treasury, strong gov't, founder of Federalist Party
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Hamilton
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Presidential message in which George Washington warned nations of interfering with Europeean affairs and domestic factions
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Farewell Address
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THis compromise broke the impasse of the Constitution Congress- 2 houses, one by pop, and one equal dist.
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The Great Compromise
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Uprising in W. Pennsylvania in when 1794 over excise tax on whiskey
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Whiskey Rebellion
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The compromise the delegates agreed to count slaves as 3/5 a person for taxation and representation
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3/5 Compromise
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These resolutions were reactions against the Alien and Sedition Acts, they were based on a compact based government
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Agreement with Spain tha topened the Mississippi River to Americans and granted Americans the right to deposit in New Orleans
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Pinkney's Treaty
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