Ch. 3 17Th Century America

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Sumptuary Law

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a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community

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Navigation Act

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any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain

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Staple Act

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Parliament law in 1663 stating that goods could not leave or enter the colonies without first going through England

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Plantation Duty

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an act imposing a duty on certain colonial exports, and closing loopholes colonists used to export tobacco directly into European markets, it required money collected in colonial ports to be equal to the amount of English duties

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Half-Way Covenant

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allowed children to be baptized and become church members, even when their parents couldn't prove their membership

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Nathaniel Bacon

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American colonist and famous for leading Bacon's rebellion in Virginia in 1676

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Great Migration

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the immigration of many puritans to New England from the 1630s to the 1640s.

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Charles II

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British Monarch whose reign marked the Restoration, promoted commerce and science, but was distrusted because of his connection to catholicism

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Royal African Company

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A monopoly in the slave trade setting up a colony in Africa

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Stono Uprising

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Slave rebellion in 1739 in South Carolina, largest slave rebellion

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Mercantilism

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a theory prevalent in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries asserting that the wealth of a nation depends on its possession of precious metals and therefore that the government of a nation must maximize the foreign trade surplus, and foster national commercial interests, a merchant marine

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Sir William Berkeley

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British colonial governor of Virginia

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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies

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large gap of wealth between the Planters and poorer publics

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Slave Trade

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the business of transporting and selling black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century

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Jacob Leisler

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German born American colonist who enacted as the New York Governor, led a militia rebellion to capture control of lower New York from the crown

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Cotton Mather

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scholar and religious leader of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, urged the suppression of witchcraft

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John Winthrop

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A Puritan political leader of the seventeenth century, born in England, sent to America as the first governor of Massachusetts

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Enumerated Goods

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goods produced in the colonies, that could only be shipped to England

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Nat Turner

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black slave of the early nineteenth century, who led the only effective and sustained slave revolt in American history

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Jamestown Massacre

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an Indian attack on Jamestown killing 347 settlers and destroying crops

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Bacon's Rebellion

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an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown

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Edmund Andros

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British governor in the American colonies, in control of the Dominion of New England, later overthrown.

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Restoration

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the reestablishment of monarchy in England in 1660

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King James War

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political battle in the British Isles, between Catholicism and Protestantism over the divine right of the crown, and the political power of parliament

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William and Mary

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Protestant joint rulers of England, after the Glorious Revolution

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Massachusetts Bay colony after the revolution, commitment to the colony, improving economy

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Massachusetts Bay colony after the revolution, commitment to the colony, improving economy

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Massachusetts Bay colony after the revolution, commitment to the colony, improving economy

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Massachusetts Bay colony after the revolution, commitment to the colony, improving economy

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Massachusetts Bay colony after the revolution, commitment to the colony, improving economy

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Massachusetts Bay colony after the revolution, commitment to the colony, improving economy