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24 Cards in this Set
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Sumptuary Law
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laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption.
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Navigation Acts
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series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies
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Staple Act
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One of the Navigation Acts
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Plantation Duty
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All the work the slaves needed to do.
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Half-way Convenant
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a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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was a 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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The Great Migration
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The Great Migration was the movement of 4.1 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930.
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Charles II
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was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496
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Royal African 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
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Stono uprising
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was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina
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Mercantilism
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an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
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Sir William Berkeley
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was a governor of Virginia
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Glorious Revolution
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the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland
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Slave Trade
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the business of buying and selling slaves
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Jacob Leisler
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was a German-born American colonist. Beginning in 1689, he led an insurrection dubbed Leisler's Rebellion in colonial New York
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Cotton Mather
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was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer
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John Winthrop
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obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles 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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Listed and counted goods
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Nat Turner
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United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia
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Jamestown Massacre
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occurred in the Virginia Colony on Friday, March 22, 1622.
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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War led by nathaniel bacon against the government.
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Edmund Andros
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was 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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the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685
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William and Mary
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joint monarchs of England
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