Chapt 5

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government where one or more individuals had authority over the colony; chose all of the officials

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proprietary charter

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group of royal advisers that set English policies in the colonies. allowed most colonies to run their own affairs; reviewed colonial laws to make sure they followed English laws

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Privy Council

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King or Queen selected the governor and council members

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Royal Charter

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England's national legislature or law making body. colonists based their assemblies on this

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Parliament

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lawmaking body made up of two houses, or groups

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bicameral legislature

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Virgiia's assembly's second house, members were elected by colonists to represent Virginia's plantations n towns

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House of Burgesses

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center of New England's politics. where people talked about and decided issues of local interest; such as paying for schools. talked about ownership and use of unsettled lands. the men in the community met once or twice a year. also selected officials who would carry out decisions.

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Town meetings

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he wrote an artical about the royal governor of New York in his newspaper. officials charged hi and accused him of printing a false wrtitten statement that damadged the governor's reputation. he was arrested. proved innocent because he could publish whatever he wanted as long as it was true.

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John Peter Zenger

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government King James 2 united the northern colonies (connecticut, maine, massachusetts, new hampshire, new jersey, new york, and rhode island)took place of the Northern colonies' original charters

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Dominion of New England

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royal governor of the Dominion formal governor of New York limited the powers of town meetings in 1688

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Sir Edmund Andros

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when King James 2 was overthrown because he was trying to change England from a protestant country back to a Catholic one. his daughter mary and her husband William of Orange were asked by Parliament to rule England

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Glorious Revolution

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act where the powers of English monarchy were reduced. parliament gained power, colonists valued their own right to elect the represetatives that governed them

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Englsh Bill of Rights

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practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade

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mercantilism

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relationship between what goods a country purchases from other countries and what goods it sells to other countries

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balance of trade

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goods bought from other countries

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imports

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goods sold to other countries

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exports

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acts that required colonists to do the bulk of their trading with England; colonists were upset because they wanted freedom to buy or cell goods in whatever markets offered the best prices.

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Navagation Acts

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economic competition with little government control

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free enterprise

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trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, the west Indies and West Africa

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triangular trade

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route where New England traders exchanged rum for slaves on the West African coast. brought around 10 milion Africans across the Atlantic Ocean

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Middle Passage

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slave at 11 years of age.

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Olaudah Equiano

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crops that were sold for profit ie: tobacco rice idigo

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cash crops

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laws to control slaves ie: slaves could not hold meetings or own weapons

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slave codes

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young boys who learned skilled trades, lived with a master craftsman n learned from him. in exchange the boys performed simple tasks

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apprentices

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crops that were always needed

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staple crops

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introduced indigo to the colony after she learned how to grow it on her family's plantation

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney

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emotional gatherings where people came together to hear sermons and declare their faith

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revivals

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christian movemtnt that became widespread in the American colonies. involved sermons and revivals that emphasized faith in god.

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great awakening

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leaders of the Great Awakening pastor of the congregational church in Northampton massachusetts. his dramatic sermons urged sinners to seek forgiveness for their sins or face punishemnt in Hell forever

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Jonathan Edwards

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british minister who made the second of his seven trops to America, he held revivals from Georgia to New England. one of the most popular ministers of the Great Awakening, caused thousands of colonists to find their new faith in christianity

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George Whitefield

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presbyterian minister who was a leader of the Great Awakening. his sermons attacked the traditionalists as a result the presbyterian church split up ; old side and new side.

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Gilbert Tennant

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period of great learning when European scientists, mathematicians, and astronomers looked for explanations about how the universe worked

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scientific revolution

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one of the leading figures in the scientific Revolution demonstrated how the planets revolve around the sun

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Galileo Galilei

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explained how objects on Earth and in the sky behaved, his theories proved that the same laws of physics govern both. developed much of the scientific method

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Sir Isaac Newton

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observation of and experimentation with natural events in order to form theories that could predict other natural events or behaviors

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Scientific Method

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age of reason; movement that began in Europe in the 1700s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government

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Enlightenment

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the American Philosophical Society's second president, designed mathematical and instrumens.

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David Rittenhouse

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astonomer and surveyor; free African american who lived in maryland, predicted a solar eclipse- when the moon passes over the sun, published his work in an almanac

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Benjamin Banneker

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most famous colonial scientist. worked first in his father's soap and candle shop. became an apprentice in his brother's printing shop. moved to philadelphia. started a newspaper. published Poor richard's almanack. invented many devices like the lightning rod reduced the risk of fire started by electrical storms, stove, bifocals. proved lightning is a form of electricity. found positive and negative charges in electricity. started first subscription library, opened an academy that became the University of Pennsylvania, founded te American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin

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poet that wrote about her love for her family and faith, published in the tenth muse in london

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Anne Bradstreet

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used religious language and imagery in her poetry; one of the first african americans to have her worked published

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Phillis Wheatly