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a colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group, who then set up a form of government largely independent from royal control |
proprietorship |
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epithet for members of the society of friends |
Quakers |
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english laws passed, beginning in the 1650s & 1660s, requiring the certain english colonial goods be shipped through English parts on English ships manned |
Navigation Acts |
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a royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed CT, RH, MA Bay, Plymouth, NY, and NJ into single, vast colony & elim |
Dominion of New England |
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a quick & nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange |
Glorious Revolution |
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a monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution |
Constitutional monarchy |
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an era of warfare beginning w/ the war of the League of Ausburg in 1689 & lasting until the defeat of Napoleon @ Waterloo in 1815 |
Second Hundred Years’ War |
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the adaptation of stateless people to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states |
tribalization |
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the alliance of the Iroquois, first w/ the colony of New York, then w/ the British Empire & its other colonies |
Covenant Chain |
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a new agricultural & commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice, & other tropical & subtropical products for an international market |
South Atlantic System |
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the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly 2 mil enslaved Africans |
Middle Passage |
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slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in the SC in which a group of slaves armed themselves, plundered six plantations, & killed kore than twenty colonists. |
Stono Rebellion |
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a refined style of living & elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do english families after 1600 & strongly influence leading colonists after 1700 |
gentility |
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a term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I & George II |
salutary neglect |
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the power of elected officials to grant government jobs & favors to their supporters, also jobs and favor themselves |
patronage |
