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30 Cards in this Set
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stronger sense of community
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New England
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entire families emigrated to the New World
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New England
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immigrants were often single males
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Chesapeake
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tended to live longer
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New England
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had larger families
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New England
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settled in large towns closer to one another
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New England
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lived in smaller, more spread-out farming communities
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Chesapeake
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Massachusetts Bay killing 400 people of a tribe after their members had killed nine white colonists
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Pequot War
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What were the two types of Puritans?
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Seperatists and Congregationalists
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usually considered the first written constitution in British North America
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Fundamental Orders
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act in 1649 that protected most Christians
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Act of Toleration
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Name the proprietary colonies
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-Connecticutt
-Maryland -New York -New Jersey -Pennsylvania -North and South Carolina |
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How did many Dutch come to be found in New York?
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They had lost the war against the British and therefore got to stay in New York off generous terms
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What was the difference between North and South Carolina?
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North- like Chesapeake
South- like Barbados |
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Which were the only two proprietary colonies that didn't turn into a royal colony?
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Connecticutt, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Maryland
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Why were Africans preferable over Indians as slaves?
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-were not decimated by disease
-less likely to escape or communicate with each other -dark skin |
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shipping route that brought slaves to the Americas:
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Middle Passage
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Three main cash crops of the South
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tobacco, rice, and indigo
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hard currency
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specie
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Navigation Acts
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-buy their goods only from England
-sell some of their products only to England -import only to English ports |
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Why were the Navigation acts only somewhat successful?
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-were not strictly enforced
-easy to smuggle |
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What did Britian do to strengthen the Navigation act?
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-set of vice-admirality courts
-Board of Trade |
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What was the era before the Seven Years' War called?
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salutary neglect
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military-style courts, in which defendants were not entitled to a jury
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vice-admiralty courts
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Why were the protests to strengthening the Navigation Acts small?
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They understood mercantilism
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Was there a powerful centralized government in the colonies?
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The British never tried to make one
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Why is Bacon's Rebellion important?
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-allianced themselves with slaves
-precursor the the American Revolution |
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slaves stole guns and ammunition, killed people and liberated a number of slaves. 100 fugitives escaped to Florida
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Stono Uprising (Cato Rebellion)
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What was the problem with the halfway covenant?
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Those who were baptized this way couldn't vote
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Where did 90% of colonists live at this time?
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rural areas
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