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Sumptuary Law
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are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption
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Navigation Act
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Actswere a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England
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Staple Act
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proposed federal legislation to exempt immigrants with PhDs in the sciences, technology, math and engineerin
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Plantation Duty
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requires that all colonies trade directly with England or face heavy duties on goods
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Half-Way Covenant
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form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662
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Nathanial Bacon
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was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
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Royal Africa Company
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was a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants
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Stono Uprising
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(sometimes called Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739
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Mercantilism
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is an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of capital, that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable," and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another
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Sir William Berkeley
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was a colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors
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Sumptuary Law
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are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption
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Navigation Act
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Actswere a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England
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Staple Act
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proposed federal legislation to exempt immigrants with PhDs in the sciences, technology, math and engineerin
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Plantation Duty
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requires that all colonies trade directly with England or face heavy duties on goods
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Half-Way Covenant
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form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662
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Nathanial Bacon
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was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
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Royal Africa Company
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was a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants
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Stono Uprising
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(sometimes called Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739
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Mercantilism
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is an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of capital, that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable," and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another
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Sir William Berkeley
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was a colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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The income gap between merchants and master craftsmen and laborers increased throughout the colonial period
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)
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Jacob Leisler's rebellion in New York, that liberalism early took shape...both colonies.
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Slave Trade
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Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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The income gap between merchants and master craftsmen and laborers increased throughout the colonial period
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Jacob Leisler
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was a German-born American colonist. He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)
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Jacob Leisler's rebellion in New York, that liberalism early took shape...both colonies.
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Cotton Mather
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was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials
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Slave Trade
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Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean
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John Winthrop
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was one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I.
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Jacob Leisler
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was a German-born American colonist. He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688
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Enumerated Goods
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Products/goods produced by the colonies that could/can only be shipped to england
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Cotton Mather
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was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials
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Nat Turner
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831
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John Winthrop
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was one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I.
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Jamestown Massacre
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occurred in the Colony of Virginia, in what now belongs to the United States of America, on Friday, March 22, 1622. Though he had not been in Virginia since 1609 and was thus not a firsthand eyewitness, Captain John Smith related in his History of Virginia that the Indians "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us".[1] Suddenly the Indians grabbed any tools or weapons available to them and killed any English settlers that were in sight, including men, women and children of all ages
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Enumerated Goods
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Products/goods produced by the colonies that could/can only be shipped to england
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon.
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Nat Turner
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831
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Jamestown Massacre
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occurred in the Colony of Virginia, in what now belongs to the United States of America, on Friday, March 22, 1622. Though he had not been in Virginia since 1609 and was thus not a firsthand eyewitness, Captain John Smith related in his History of Virginia that the Indians "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us".[1] Suddenly the Indians grabbed any tools or weapons available to them and killed any English settlers that were in sight, including men, women and children of all ages
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon.
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Edmund Andros
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3rd and 5th Royal Governor of Maryland (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714) was an early colonial English governor in North America
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Restoration
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The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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King James War
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Flight of King James II after the Battle of The Boyne England's Dutch-born King William III pursued his lifelong war against King Louis XIV
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William and Mary
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The phrase William and Mary usually refers to the coregency over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, of King William III and Queen Mary II. Their joint reign began in February 1689, when they were called to the throne by Parliament, replacing James II & VII, Mary's father and William's uncle/father-in-law, who was "deemed to have fled" the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
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Puritan Commonwealth
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Many things are prohibited in the New Commonwealth, particularly since the rise of Puritan conservatism in recent decades.
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