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40 Cards in this Set
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PLYMOUTH COLONY
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Who: English separatists also known as Pilgrims,
Where: Plymouth Massachusetts, from 1620-1691. What: First sizable English settlement in New England region. Significance: site of the first known Thanksgivings; also a place of religious freedom. |
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620
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Who: The English separatists, Pilgrims
Where: the Atlantic, aboard the Mayflower. Significance: Seeking the freedom to practice Christianity |
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HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
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Who: Virginia Company
Where: Jamestown, Virginia What: a system attempting to solve labor shortages due to the trade of tobacco. Significance: Increased gap between the wealthy landowners and the working poor. |
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FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639
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Who: Connecticut Colony
Where: Connecticut river towns What: A compromise for use of shared land between colonies. Significance: considered as the first written Constitution in the West. |
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MERCANTILISM
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Who: Economic Theory
Where: Early modern period What: The prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of the capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable." Significance: influential on modern economics |
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TRIANGULAR TRADE
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Who: West Africa, the Caribbean, American colonies, and Europe
What: trade among three regions. Where: Atlantic Significance: the trade of cash crops like sugar, slaves, tobacco and copper. |
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THE GREAT AWAKENING
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Who: Protestant Reformation
Where: Revival in Anglo-American history. What: Revivalism of Christianity. Significance: Influence on political life |
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IRON ACT 1750
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Who: Legislative measures by the British Parliament
Where: Great Britain What: Restricting manufacturing activities in British colonies. Significance: Made people have to |
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INDENTURED SERVANTS
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Who: Irish, Scottish, English and Germans.
What: Unlike a slave, they were only required to work for the specified limit in their contract. Where: North America, The Caribbean, Australia, Pacific and Indian Ocean. Significance: Has had influence on the indentured servitude of modern day uses, not for good. |
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
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Who: Commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the First president of the United States of America. Often referred to as the father of America.
What: A founding father, dealt with foreign affairs and Acts. Where: Mount Vernon, private estate. Significance: “Father of his country”, also referred to as the man on the one dollar bill. |
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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
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Who: Issued by King George III, toward the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
Where: Quebec, West Florida, East Florida, and Grenda. What: The Royal Proclamation ceased to be law in the United States following the American Revolution. Significance: To organize Great Britain's new Native North Americans through regulation to trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. |
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SALUTARY NEGLECT
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Who: British
What: Policy avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentry laws, which were meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. Where: The emergence separated from Great Britain Significance: Used to enforce the English policies of the Seven Years' War |
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STAMP ACT 1765
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Who: Tax imposed by the British Parliament
What: Seen as a violation of the right of Englishmen Where: Territory of New France. Significance: Help for troops stationed in North America following the British Victory in the Seven Years' War. |
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STAMP ACT CONGRESS
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Who: House of representatives,
What: Trail to jury, a right of self taxation, and reducing admiralty courts. Where: Georgia, North Carolina, Virigina, and New Hampshire and those from New York were delegates of particular counties within the colony. Significance: Parliament had the authority to regulate trade it could be constructed as an admission that an external tax to raise revenue was acceptable. |
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SONS OF LIBERTY
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Who:American patriots.
What: Secret organization Where:Thirteen colonies during the American Revolution Significance: Later societies such as during the American Civil War |
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COMMITTEES OF CORESPONDENCE
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Who: Part of the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolutionary war.
What: Established in Boston, oppostion to the Currency Act Where: Massachusetts, Viriginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina Significance:prompted the colonies to form Committees of Correspondence. |
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BOSTON MASSACRE
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Who: British Troops
What: deaths of five civilians. Where: Yankees-Red Sox rivalry Significance: Events such as the Tea Act and ensuring the Boston Tea Party were examples of the crumbling relationship between Britain and the colonies. |
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INTOLERABLE (COERCIVE) ACTS 1774
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Who: British Parliament
What: Parliamentry authority that began by the Stamp Act 1765 Where: British colonies in North America Significance: Response to Boston Tea Party, |
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SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775
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Who: Thirteen colonies
What: raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties. Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Significance:Soon leading into the Declaration of Independence |
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NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Who: Congress of Confederation.
What: creation of organized territory Where: Untied States Significance: Soon banning slavery in the territory had the effect of establishing the Ohio River ad the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mts. and the Mississippi River. |
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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Who: Continental Congress, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson
What: Independent from Great Britain, outbreak to American Revolutionary War. Where: Washington D.C. Significance: Justified the independence of the U.S, stating human rights. |
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SHAY'S REBELLION
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Who: Farmers angered by what they felt to be crushing debt and taxes.
What: Failure to repay such debts often resulted in imprisonment in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the Country. Where: Central and Western Massachusetts Significance: Financial crisis, demanded payment in gold and silver. |
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IMPLIED POWERS (ELASTIC CLAUSE)
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Who: The Air Force as an implied power because the constituion did not give the power of the Air Force to the federalgovernment.
Where: Maryland What:Elastic Clause in Section 8 of Article 1 of the U.S. Significance: political idea expressed in some of the European Union decisions. |
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GREAT COMPROMISE
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Who: House of Representatives.
What: Agreement between large and small states reached during Philadelphia Convention of 1787, in part determining the legistalative structure and representation that each state would have under the U.S. Constituion. Where: Connecticut. Significance: This proposal was known as the Virginia Plan, relation to Articles of Confederation. |
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JAMESTOWN
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JOHN SMITH
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BACON'S REBELLION
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MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY
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ROGER WILLIAMS
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ANNE HUTCHINSON
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PEQUOT WAR
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DECLARATORY ACT
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QUARTERING ACT
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TOWNSHEND ACT
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BOSTON MASSACRE
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TEA ACT
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BOSTON TEA PARTY
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COERCIVE ACTS
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MUTINY ACT
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SAMUEL ADAMS
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