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18 Cards in this Set
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Iroquois Confederacy |
ended tribal warfare, Native American alliance |
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The Virginia Company |
joint-stock company primary goal- profit less religious motivation than others |
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Tobacco |
made British colonies in Chesapeake viable most valuable cash crop |
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Indentured servants |
key part in tobacco plantation system in Virginia and Maryland --> headright system granted 50 acres of land |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
-exposed tensions btwn former indentured servants and gentry - didn't receive promised land b/c gentry were taking over, wanted help from gov., but gov didn't help -now masters turned to slaves for work |
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Stono Rebellion |
- earliest known ate against slavery - led by slaves - tried to flee Spanish Florida |
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Puritans |
- New England to escape repression and religious persecution - John Winthrop - small villages, surrounded by farmland - close relationship btwn church and state - founded Harvard and Yale - viewed humans as sinful - predestination |
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"City Upon a Hill"
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- model city - ideal Christian society Puritans and John Winthrop were trying to establish |
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Anne Hutchinson |
- Mass. Bay colony banished her.. she founded Rhode Island - believed that faith alone determined salvation |
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Roger Williams |
- banished Providence - religious refugee |
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Half-way Convenant |
- Puritan church wanted to preserve and expand membership
- people could now join even if they hadn't felt a conversion |
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1st Great Awakening |
1730s-1740s - reaction to Enlightenment - "New Light" ministers gave emotional sermons --George Whitefield - inc women involvement in church |
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John Edwards |
- part of 1st Great Awakening
- wrote "Sinners in the Hands of Angry G-d" - argued that g-d was angry with human sins; each that would show deep regret would be forgiven, but others will face doom |
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Pennsylvania |
- William Penn - liberal colony w. reps elected by landowners - freedom of religion |
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Quakers |
- Pacifists - advocated religious freedom - greater role for women - opposed slavery |
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Navigation Acts |
- promote England prosperity - listed colonial products that could only be sold to England - products only on English ships carried by English crew - products need to pass through English ports |
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Republican Government |
- representation based on population - small limited gov - agrarian life |
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Colonial Literature |
- Anne Bradstreet- 1st American women published poet - Phillis Wheatley: 1st published women AA poet |
