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22 Cards in this Set
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Spanish Armada
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Date: 1588
Philip II, England, Spain, Catholic Church, defeat of Spain |
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London Company
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Date: 1607
Jamestown, Virginia, John Smith, 600 settlers |
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King Philip's War
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Date: 1675
English Settlers, Metacomet(King Philip), Organized Indian attempt |
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The Great Awakening
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Date: 1730s to 1740s
Religious fervor, John Edwards, George Whitfield |
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Royal Colony
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Date: 1620s
Direct control of King, local governor/council/administer |
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The Middle Passage
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Date: 1500-1700s
Africans, slaves, journey to america, filthy ships |
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Navigation Acts
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Date: 1600s
Freedom from foreign competition, access to British market, taxes |
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Proclamation of 1763
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Date: 1763 ...
control westward movement, land won from F & I war |
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Iroquois Confederacy
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Date: 1776
combination of Indian nations, ended up splitting during war |
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Townshend Acts
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Date: 1766
William Pitt, tax on common products (lead, paper, glass) largely ignored |
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Olive Branch Petition
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Date: 1775
Ditch effort by South to stay out of war; failed |
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Loyalists/Tories
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Date: 1776-1781
Colonists supporting the British during the war |
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Stamp Act Congress
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Date: 1765
petition against rightful taxation |
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Battle of Yorktown
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Date: 1781
American and French victory; ended revolution. Cornwallis defeated |
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Direct/Indirect Taxes
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Date: 1760s
Indirect- tax collected through different intermediates;Direct=direct |
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Roanoake
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Date: 1585
Sir Walter Raleigh, lost colony, named Virginia |
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Jamestown
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Date: 1607
First successful colony, London Company |
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Plymouth
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Date: 1620
Massachusetts Colony, pilgrims, New England settlement |
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New Netherlands
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Date: 1614
Dutch colonization, various trading posts |
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The enlightenment
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Date: 1700s
Age of Reason, intellectual rise, response to Dark Ages |
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Proprietary Colony
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Date: 1600s
Colony which the king gave land to one or more people called proprieters |
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Indentured Servants
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Date: 1600s
unfree laborerer under contract work |
