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25 Cards in this Set
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Tobacco |
Main cash crop of Jamestown and later, VA |
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Powhatans |
Native American tribe most directly influencing the Jamestown settlement |
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Proprietary Colonies |
Colonies placed under the power of individual granted charters of ownership by the king. |
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Proprietor |
Person holding the charter of land of a colony, often never steps foot in the New World |
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Act of Toleration |
1649, allowed religious freedom in Maryland, except the fact that anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus in the statute would be executed |
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Chesapeake Colonies |
The colonies surrounding the Chesapeake Bay area, Maryland and Virginia. |
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Headright system |
Method of attracting immigrants, in VA, gave 50 acres of land to any immigrant who paid for his own passage and/or any plantation owner who paid for an immigrant's passage. |
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Indentured Servants |
Contracted, temporary slaves, not racially based |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) |
First written constitution in American history, established a representative government in the newly-formed colony of Hartford |
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New Hampshire |
Last of the NE colonies, formed from a few settlement north of Boston made into a Royal colony by Charles II in 1679 |
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Restoration Colonies |
Colonies founded during the reign of Charles II, in 1660, after he was restored as kind in 1660 (taking control from Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell) Exp: Carolinas, NY, NJ, Penn, Delaware, and GA |
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Delaware |
In 1702, three lower colonies allowed to break off of Pennsylvania and for Delaware, with their own assembly, never fully autonomous from Pennsylvania until after the Revolution |
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Georgia |
Last colony, founded for two main reasons, to serve as a buffer colony from the Spanish for South Carolina, and to give British debtors a place to live |
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James Oglethorpe |
Georgia's first colonial governor and founded Georgia's first settlement, Savannah, in 1733. |
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Glorious Revolution |
British Revolution in 1688 removing James II, a man hated in the colonies, and replacing him with two new sovereigns, William and Mary. Also forced Sir Edmund Andros to flee the colonies. |
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Reasons for High Demand of Slaves |
Reduced migration of immigrants from Europe and England, they were a dependable workforce who were easy to control, and were cheap |
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Slave laws |
Laws in the colonies made to ensure that African Americans would be enslaved for life and that their slave status would be passed on to their children. |
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Scotch-Irish |
English-speaking peoples from northern Ireland whose ancestors had moved from Scotland to Ireland. |
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A Man's Role in Colonial Society |
To control wealth, work, own land, pursue politics, to have dominion in the home |
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A Woman's Role in Colonial Society |
To have children, to work around the house, cooking, cleaning, clothes-making, and administering medical care, to educate the children, and to work alongside her husband at their job. |
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Inflation |
Occurred when colonies tried to issue their own money for domestic trade. |
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Congregationalists |
Combination of Separatist (Pilgrim) and Puritan beliefs, a more user-friendly version of the two religions that formed out of necessity. Inner workings still very complicated at beginning. |
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Ben Franklin |
Wrote Poor Richard's Almanack, was the leading scientist and inventor of the time, making the bifocals and the lightning rod, and was also a hugely successful diplomat with extreme social mobility. |
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The Zenger Case |
1735 trial in which journalist John Peter Zenger was brought to trial for "libelously" criticizing New York's royal governor. Under English common law, it didn't matter whether the statements were true or false. Being the rebels they were, the jury of colonists acquited Zenger. |
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The Lower House |
Chamber of state assembly that voted for or against new taxes, and whose members were elected by the eligible voters. |
