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33 Cards in this Set
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Tenancy |
Rich white people owned 75% of the good land. They would rent it to puritan farmers to use. |
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Competency |
Land that migrants wanted to secure so as to provide a means to provide for their families and future generations. If parents couldn't give their kids land, they were put up as indentured servants. |
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Household Mode of Production |
Families swapping labor for goods. They would lend food and goods in exchange for services, materials, or credit. This was because currency was short in supply. This preserved the freehold ideal and maximized agricultural output. |
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Squatters |
Poor migrants coming from Pennsylvania and New Jersey that settled illegally in land they hoped to eventually acquire on legal terms. Sometimes they even thrived on said illegal lands. |
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Redemptioner |
A flexible form of indentured servitude created to by immigrant Germans to pay off the trip from Rhine Valley. Parents would set up a home while the children would be indentured. |
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Enlightenment |
European cultural movement that emphasazised the power of human reason, intellect, and the improvobility of man. Scientific method. Benjamin Franklin anyone? Natural rights? John Locke? |
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Pietism |
European cultural movement emphasizing pious behavior and the relationship with God. Led to the great awakening in the colonies. |
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Natural Rights |
The rights that every man is born with that the government must protect: life, libert, and property. Written by John Locke. |
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Deism |
Way of thinking. wasnt a religion. Believed that a supreme being(clockmaker) created the world and set it in motion. It runs through natural laws but doesn't intervene in our lives. Tick tock tick tock tick tock. |
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Revival |
Don't stop, believeing, hang onto that feeling! Renewal of religious enthusiasm in the great awakening. Spreading of the faith throughout the colonies again. |
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Old Lights |
The old passionless conservative minister in the great awakening. They opposed the young revivalists for their heresy. Probably wanted to just keep their power. Were constantly attacked by the Kool Kats. |
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New Lights |
Finally women can talk! Might want to take that back. Religious freedom! New ideas to the faith! Young blood in the churches! Let's fight against those old white guys! |
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Consumer Revolution |
People are getting a shitton of money from the colonial and Britain trade. Rice, indigo, wheat, sugar, oh my! Poeple are buying rich fancy things to show off! People are buying **** that they don't need but they want to because why not?? |
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Regulators |
Land owner vigilantes that demanded the eastern controlled government provide western districts with more courts and fairer taxation, and greater representation. "We are free men, British subjects. Not slaves." Damn you greedy Scottish Anglo American settlers killing the Cherokees! Damn you! |
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Walking/Running Purchase |
Let's take a nice long walk with my fellow native american man. Smoke a pipe with me, eat some food, take in the scenery. This is the I'll buy. *Future Generation* On your mark, get set, GO! Native Americans: wtf??? |
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German Immigrants |
Yo man, like love n peace. Let's join our quaker buddies yah? Like, we're tired of all this persecution and high taxes. We can even like, worship what we want and get hella more money. Also dominated most east Pennsylvania. Retained cultural identity by settling in Lutheran reformed communities. Married within race. |
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Scott Irish Immigrants |
So we don't the hostility from Irish catholics and English officials/ landlords. What's that? Irish test act won't let us vote? Deuces. What's that? We cheap land, religious freedom, and we work for ourselves in Pennsylvania? Count me in! What's that? Quakers are fruitcups and natives are in the way of our land? Fuq em up |
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Great Awakening |
And Whitefield said " YOU'RE ALL GOING TO HELL YOU DON'T FIND SALVATION" And that point on people had conversion experiences and a renewel of their puritan religion in colonial American. |
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Baptists |
We're radical protestants who welcome everyone to be born again and baptized once more in their faith. That's right, black people can join us too and be free. And we call each other brothers and sisters. No were not actually brothers and sisters. We empower poor people but maintain our society patriarchal. Yes I know, that doesn't make sense. |
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Albany Plan |
Benjamin Franklin's first proposal of a one unifying government over the colonies that would control trade, Indian policy, and defense. Sadly, the colonies wanted to keep their independence and didn't want to defy parliament. Poor ol Benjy, youll get em next time. |
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Proclamation Line |
Ended the French and Indian war/Seven Years War. It forbid all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains. Oooh boy did the colonists sure did disobey ol Georgey the 2. |
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French and Indian War |
So Britain won against the French and Indians. Wag, remember that ****. They conquered Canada. Captured suga islands. Oh honey honey. Now they controlled all of North America. Too bad colonies **** up their plan to create an empire though. |
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Gorge Washington |
British general who led an expedition to French forts on Lake Erie. Their Indian ally half prince second cousin former roommate brother in law Tanaghrisson rushed in and killed French officer. Dude just started a war and Georgey took the fall. Poor bastard was caught and signed a treaty claiming that he killed the officer cause he didn't read French. |
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General Braddock |
******* rich pretentious British general who so fancy that he was caught mid battle while drinking tea and eating crumpets. Didn't listen on poor ol Georgey and underestimated the Indians in the French and Indian war. |
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Paxton Bois |
These bois were mad because natives were attacking them and destroying their land along with occupying the land they wanted. Quakers wouldnt do anything about it. So they killed a bunch of natives and we're never accused due to lack of witnesses. |
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Isaac Newton |
Gravity. That's it. This is the whole card. You know? Established the laws of motion. Ummmm, reinforced the idea that the earth revolves around the sun. Calculus? Planetary motion?? |
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John Locke |
Good ol daddy of liberty. Natural rights, freedom of speech, oh Boi! Like if I don't know this guy by now I'm going to fail this test. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
You know, the guy on the hunnet dolla bill. He proposed the universal government. Great inventor. Huge deist fan. Wanted to make America great. Very influential. One of the founding fathers. |
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Jonathan Edwards |
Minister in Massachusetts. Encouraged the revival of faith in towns throughout Connecticut. Wrote A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God. Book spread a lot pietism throughout the colonies. |
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George Whitefield |
Very spooky minister who gave very spooky sermons. Spoke strongly about the faith and how were all going to hell. Known for his descriptive and scary sermons. Spread the great awakening throughout the colonies. |
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Tanaghrisson |
Thw half king native who tagged along with Washington to check out the French forts that were blocking settlements. He killed the French official that Washington took the fall for and sparked the French and Indian war. |
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William Pitt |
Really arrogant and tough sumabitch who was a key general in the Great War for Empire. Financed most of it himself and was a formidable foe against the French. "I know that I can save this country and I alone can" ****** sounds like trump. |
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Pontiac |
Really influential native American that hated the Europeans and warned against them. He led a huge uprising against Detroit and killed a lot of settlers and Europeans. Even after lots of fighting they couldn't crush him. His fierce fighting led to Britain creating the Proclamation Line. |
