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The bloodless revolution of 1688; created a "limited monarchy" as defined by England's Bill of Rights of 1689.
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What is; The Glorious Revolution.
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Tell me Mr. Potter, what was the document that promised to summon Parliament annually, sign all it's bills and respect traditional civil liberties?
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I don't know sir.
Hmm right, that is the English Bill of Rights of 1689 you blubbering twit, twenty points from Gryffindor |
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New York's militia seized the harbor's main fort on May 31st, 1689. Jacob Leisler, fearing his commander was loyal to James II, denied entry to the English troops in 1691
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What is; Leisler's Rebellion
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A tough-minded idealist who dominated the provincial board of trustees during Georgia's first decade. Founder port of savannah in 1733. Hated slavery, thus Parliament made Georgia the only colony where slavery was outlawed.
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James Oglethorpe
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The trail of a New-York Weekly Journal printer, who was charged that he had seditiously libeled William Cosby. Was acquitted in 1735. This encouraged the New York people too participate in their cities public life.
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Trial of John Peter Zenger
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The age of optimism and progress, where people had time to read and think. Where science advanced and trumped prejudice and ignorance with logic.
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Enlightenment
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An organization created by Benjamen Franklin in 1743 that encourged "all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things." grew into a guild for amateur scientists
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American Philosophical Society
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The foremost learned society in the english-speaking word. In which the Enlightenment strengthened ties between Colonial and British elites.
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Royal Society
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A brillaint thinker, well aware of contemporary philosophy and science. Led the revival at Northampton Massachusetts "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"
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Johnathan Edwards.
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Sir Edmund Andros and the Dominion of New England.
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In 1686 the new king consolidated Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Plymouth into a single unit, which was the Dominion of New England, this wiped out all previous legislatures of these colonies. Sir Edmund Andros became the governor of this new Supercolony. The importance of this is that it lead to increasing tension between the colonies and in turn too the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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