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Sumptuary Law
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a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community
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navigation act
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any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain
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staple act
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parliament law that stated that stated goods could not be imported into america without first passing through english ports
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Plantation Duty
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limited American trade, forced planters to trade exclusively with England so revenue was redirected there
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Half-Way Covenant
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proposed that second-generation members be granted the same privilege of baptism (but not communion) as had been granted to the first generation
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Nathaniel Bacon
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American colonist, born in England: leader of a rebellion in Virginia 1676
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Great Migration
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a period when many people came to the New World from England for religious freedom and other things
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Charles II
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king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660--85) following the Restoration (1660); son of Charles I. He did much to promote commerce, science, and the Navy, but his Roman Catholic sympathies caused widespread distrust
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Royal Africa Company
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slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants once the English throne was taken
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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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a theory prevalent in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries asserting that the wealth of a nation depends on its possession of precious metals and therefore that the government of a nation must maximize the foreign trade surplus, and foster national commercial interests, a merchant marine, the establishment of colonies
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Sir William Berkeley
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governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favorite
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake colonies
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the gap in which economy was good in some places and horrible in others, was not very stable
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Glorious Revolution in England
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James II was overthrown, and the people gained control of the government
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Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland
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led to Leisler's Rebellion
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slave trade
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the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, esp. black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century
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Jacob Leisler
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Leisler's Rebellion was an uprising in late 17th century colonial New York, in which militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of lower New York from 1689 to 1691
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Cotton Mather
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the minister of Boston's Old North church, was a true believer in witchcraft
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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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a black preacher who led an 1831 uprising in Southampton County, Virginia in which at least 55 whites were killed by a group of about 50 slaves
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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 unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown
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Edmund Andros
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English colonial administrator in North America. Appointed governor of New York and New Jersey in 1674, he was recalled in 1681 following complaints from colonists
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restoration
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the reestablishment of the monarchy in England with the return of Charles II in 1660
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King James War
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the war fought to get King James out of power
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William and Mary
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refers to the coregency over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, of King William III and Queen Mary II
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Puritan Commonwealth
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the states the the Puritans were part of
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