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Mestizos |
Intermarried; Spanish & American Indian |
Between two races |
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Primogeniture Laws |
Only eldest son inherits |
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First Anglo-Powhatan War (1614) |
Starving colonists raid Native food supplies |
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) |
-Natives fight back against land hungry English °Natives defeated & banished from the Chesapeake |
English were hungry for something |
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Indentured Servants |
Penniless persons who bound themselves to work for a # of years to pay their passage |
Like slaves |
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Houses of Burgesses (1619) |
First form of representative self-government in colonies |
Gov't |
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Freeman |
Indentured servants who finished their term |
What I.S did |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony's dismissive policy as it related to the political challenges of its western frontier, along with other challenges including leaving Bacon out of his inner circle, refusing to allow Bacon to be a part of his fur trade with the Native Americans, and Doeg tribe Indian attacks, helped to motivate a popular uprising against Berkeley, who had failed to address the demands of the colonists regarding their safety. |
UC Berkeley |
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Middle Passage |
The transatlantic voyage that brought slaves to the new world. |
Slaves on a boat |
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Halfway Convenant |
People could become partial church members even if they have not felt the conversion. |
What people didn't feel in order to be in church |
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Salem Witch Trials |
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693 |
What girls had to endure after betrayal |
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Navigation Acts of 1651 & 1660 |
All commerce with the colonies had to be carried on in English built & English owned ships. |
Had to do with boats and trading |
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Great Awakening |
Religious Revival Beginnings New Lights- Followers of the Great Awakening {changed the way people viewed authority} Old Lights- Condemned the new way |
Religious |
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Red Coats |
British Army |
"The red coats are coming! The red coats are coming!" |
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Patriots |
Colonists who wanted independence |
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Loyalists |
Colonists loyal to the British king |
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Treaty of Paris (1763) |
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. |
Stopped a war |
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Intolerable Acts (Coersive Acts) |
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. |
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Quartering Act |
Troops could be quartered in private homes. |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
Forbids westward expansion to prevent Indian conflicts. |
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Sugar Acts 1764 |
Higher taxes on imported sugar |
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Declatory Acts |
Asserted that parliament had the right to tax & make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." |
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Boston Massacre |
Red coats open fire on a mob of Bostonians killing 5 wounding 6. |
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Constitution |
Written plan of government |
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Shay's Rebellion |
Uprising amongst farmers due to high state taxes |
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3/5th Compromise |
Each enslaved person counted as 3/5th of a person representation and taxation |
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