Chapter 3

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Samptuary Law

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laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption.

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Navigation Act

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ere a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651.

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Staple Acts

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an offshoot of the Navigation Acts

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Plantation Duty

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limited American trade; it attempted to force planters to trade exclusively with England and her colonies and to redirect revenue to Great Britain.

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Half-Way Covenant

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a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662.

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Nathanial Bacon

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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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Great Migration

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the movement of 2 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from 1910 to 1930.

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Charles 3

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he King of Spain and of the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788.

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Royal Africa Company

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a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants once the former retook the English throne in the English Restoration of 1660. It was led by James, Duke of York, Charles II's brother.

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Stono Uprising

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a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.

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Mercantilism

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n economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism,[1] that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable".

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Mercantilism

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n economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism,[1] that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable".

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Sir William Berkley

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a governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite.

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Economic gap in Chesapeake Colonies

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Tobacco production created inequality; some growers prospered, others didn't

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Sir William Berkley

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a governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite.

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Glorious Revolution of England and New York

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Was more violent than Bay Colony/ was caused by ethnic and religious differences/ caused Leisler's Rebellion

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Economic gap in Chesapeake Colonies

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Tobacco production created inequality; some growers prospered, others didn't

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Slave Trade

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was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies

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Glorious Revolution of England and New York

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Was more violent than Bay Colony/ was caused by ethnic and religious differences/ caused Leisler's Rebellion

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Mercantilism

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n economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism,[1] that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable".

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Slave Trade

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was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies

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Sir William Berkley

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a governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite.

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Economic gap in Chesapeake Colonies

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Tobacco production created inequality; some growers prospered, others didn't

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Glorious Revolution of England and New York

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Was more violent than Bay Colony/ was caused by ethnic and religious differences/ caused Leisler's Rebellion

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Slave Trade

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was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies

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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 and later served as the acting Lieutenant Governor of New York. Beginning in 1689, he led an insurrection dubbed Leisler's Rebellion in colonial New York, seizing control of the colony until he was captured and executed in New York City for treason against William and Mary.

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Cotton Mather

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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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John Winthrop

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obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles I for the Massachusetts Bay Company and led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630.

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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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Nat Turner

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an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56[2] deaths among their victims, the largest number of white fatalities to occur in one uprising in the antebellum southern United States.

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Jamestown Massacre

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On March 22, 1622, Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in eastern Virginia killed around 347 English colonists, nearly a quarter of the entire English population in Virginia.

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Bacon's Rebellion

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an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year. The uprising was a protest against Native American raids on the frontier; some historians also consider it a power play by Bacon against the Royal Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, and his policies of favoring his own court.

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Edmund Andros

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an early colonial English governor in North America, and head of the short-lived Dominion of New England.

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Restoration

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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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In November 1688, William, Prince of Orange and his Dutch army arrived in England. When the English army refused to accept the orders of their Catholic officers, James fled to France. As the overthrow of James had taken place without a violent Civil War, this event became known as the Glorious Revolution

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William and Mary

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Took the throne after King James/Accepted Bill of Rights

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Puritan lives began w/ marriage/ colonists were highly religious/had land/ family based education