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27 Cards in this Set
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Sumptuary Laws
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Statutes that limited the wearing of fine clothes to the wealthy and prominent New Englanders. They were meant to curb the pretensions of lower class colonists.
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Navigation Act
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Forced English to follow the idea of mercantilism, restricing foreign shipping in England and America.
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Staple Act
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Stated nothing could be imported into America unless it had been transshipped through England, with few exceptions.
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Plantation Duty
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Money collected at various American ports, equal to English custom duties.
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Half-Way Covenant
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Allowed grandchildren of people fully accepted to the church to be baptized, even if their parents were unable to prove their faith.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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A English planter, started a rebellion against Berkeley because of unfair taxes and lack of aggression toward Indians.
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Great Migration
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!630's to early 1640's, it brought about 20,000 people to New England.
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Charles II
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King during the time the Navigation Acts were set into place. Strong supporter of English trade.
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Royal Africa Company
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Company chartered after 1672 to bring black laborers to the colonies
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Stono Uprising
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Most severe slave uprising in the colonial period, 150 SC blacks seized guns and murdered several white planters in September of 1739.
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Mercantilism
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The idea of trading only within the English territories in order to dissolve the economies of rival countries.
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Sir William Berkeley
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Governor of Virginia who was one of the targets of Bacon's Rebellion. He had friendly relations with Indians and was accused of crimes by Nathaniel Bacon.
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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The economic gap in the Chesapeake colonies resulted from the difference between the three main groups; planter, freemen, and servants.
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)
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England- Due to their inflated sense of themselves as their own state, the Bay colony called alliance with England treason and got themselves annulled.
New York- Political issues plagued New York, problems surfacing between the ruling class. Jacob Leisler got caught up in the events, and suffered for it in the long run. |
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Slave Trade
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Came mainly from the Western coast of Africa, importing slaves to the Caribbean and South America.
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Jacob Leisler
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German merchant who started his own rebellion by leading militiamen to attack a fort near New York City, claiming it in the name of William and Mary.
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Cotton Mather
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A minister who wrote about the Salem Witch Trials, he encouraged the judges not to rely on spectral evidence.
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John Winthrop
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Governor of Masachussetts, he promoted the independence of the Bay colony from the mother country.
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Enumerated Goods
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Goods that were listed, or specifically referred to, in the Navigation Acts.
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Nat Turner
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American slave who led a rebellion in Virgina in 1831, with a high number of white fatalities occuring.
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Jamestown Massacre
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In 1622, Indians came to Jamestown, under the pretense of trade, and slaughtered a quarter of Jamestown's population.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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When Nathaniel Bacon led colonists to burn down Jamestown and attacked groups of Indians.
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Edmund Andros
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Tyrannical governor of the area that was formerly Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Plymouth, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. He alienated all the people and was compared to the Roman tyrant Nero.
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Restoration
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Highlighted Puritan failure at reform, so many of the colonies did not accept it. New England resisted, along with Maryland, although loyal Virginia accepted it without issue.
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King James War
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The response to the Indians King Phillip's start of a war, when he tried to remove all Europeans from America.
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William and Mary
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Joint monarchs of England after 1688, a fort in New York City was seized by Leisler in their names
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Puritan Commonwealth
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Centered on familiy ties, religion and education depended on how many families were in a community, or how religious your familiy was. They had a level social society, where none were either very rich or very poor.
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