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25 Cards in this Set
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Sumptuary Law
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Statutes that limited the wearing of fine apparel to the wealthy and prominent.
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Navigation Act
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A series of commercial restrictions passed by Parliament intended to regulate colonial commerce.
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Staple Act
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Said nothing could be imported to America unless it was transshipped through England.
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Half-way covenant
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Allowed the grandchildren of persons in full comunion to be baptized.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Colonist who led an uprising in Virginia.
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Great Migration
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The movement of colonists such as Puritans to the New England and Chesapeke colonies.
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Charles 2
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Sent one thousand solsiers to Jamestown to try and stop Bacon's Rebellion.
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Royal Africa Company
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A slave trade company.
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Stono Uprising
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Slave rebellion in South Carolina.
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Mercantilism
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An economic theory that was based on the assumption that the world's wealth was a fixed supply.
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Sir William Berkley
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Governor of Virginia that disfranchised all landless freemen.
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John Winthrop
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Governor of Massachusetts
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Enumerated Goods
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tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, dyewoods, ginger
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Nat Turner
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Led a slave uprising.
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Jamestown Massacre
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An Indian uprising against the colonists.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Rebellion in Virginia against the government and the Native Americans.
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Edmund Andros
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A milltary veteran who was appointed royal governor of New England.
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Restoration
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Returning everybody back to the church and traditional values.
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King James War
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In 1688, he was driven into exile during the Glorious Revolution.
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William and Mary
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Took the throne after England deposed James 2. They accepted a Bill of Rights.
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Puritan Commonwealth
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The general wealth the Puritans had in the New World.
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Glorious Revolution
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The overthrow of King James 2 in England.
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Slave Trade
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The buying and selling of slaves from Africa to North America.
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Jacob Leisler
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Lieutenant governor of New York that led a revolt called Leisler's Rebellion and seized control of the colony of New York.
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Ctton Mather
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A New England Puritan Minister who helped the judges during the Salem witch trials.
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