Gml Ch3

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Metacom

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The Wampanoag leader known to colonists as King Philip; considered by colonists to have been the leader of the bloody 1675 Indian uprising in southern New England.

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King Philip's War

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Began in 1675 with an Indian uprising against white colonists; a multi-year conflict, the end result was broadened freedoms for white New Englanders and the dispossession of the region's Indians.

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mercantilism

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Policy of Great Britain and other imperial powers of regulating the economies of colonies to benefit the mother country.

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Navigation Acts

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Passed by the English Parliament to control colonial trade and bolster the mercantile system, 1650–1775;enforcement of the acts led to growing resentment by colonists.

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Covenant Chain

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Alliance between the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York and the English colonists; initiated in the mid-1670s by New York governor Edmund Andros.

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Yamasee uprising

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Rebellion begun in 1715 by the yamasee and Creek Indians, who were alarmed by enormous debts incurred in trade with the settlers and by slave-traders' raids into their territory. The uprising was unsuccessful and most of the remaining Indians were enslaved or driven out of the colony

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Society of Friends (Quakers)

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Religious group in England and America whose members believed all persons possessed the "inner light" or spirit of God. They were early proponents of abolition of slavery and equal rights for women.

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Sugar

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In the 17th century, huge sugar plantations led to the massive importation of slaves from Africa.

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Bacon's Rebellion

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Unsuccessful 1676 Revolt led by planter Nathaniel bacon against Virginia Governor William Berkeley administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkeley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands.

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Slave Code of 1705

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Enacted by the House of Burgesses, the code categorize slaves as property that could be bought and sold, fought over in court, and inherited.

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Anglican Church

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The official Church of England.

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Glorious Revolution

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A coupe in 1688 engineered by a small group of aristocrats that led to William of Orange taking the British throne in place of James II.

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English Bill of Rights

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Enacted by parliament in 1689, the bill listed parliamentary Powers such as control over taxation as well as rights of individuals, including trial by jury.

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Lords of trade

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Group established in 1675 by England to oversee Colonial affairs.

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Dominion of New England

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Consolidation into a single colony of the New England colonies - and later New York and New Jersey - by Royal Governor Edmund Andros in 1686. Dominion reverted to individual colonial governments three years later.

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English Toleration Act

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Enacted in 1690, the act allowed all Protestants to worship freely.

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Salem witch trials

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A crisis of Trials and executions in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 that resulted from anxiety over witchcraft.

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Redemptioners

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Indentured families who could receive free passage in exchange for a promise to work off the debt in America.

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Walking purchase

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An arrangement in which the lenni-lenape Indians agreed to cede the Pennsylvanian colonists a tract of land bounded by the distance a man could walk in 36 hours. A team of Swift Runners who were hired to Mark out the area far exceeded the amount that the Indians had anticipated.

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Backcountry

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An area stretching from central Pennsylvania Southward through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and into Upland North and South Carolina.

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Artisans

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Skilled workers who were socially distinct from common laborers. Their skill gave them far more economic freedom and they profited from the expanding consumer Market in the colonies

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Cousinocracy

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In Virginia the upper class was so tight-knit and intermarried that the colony was said to be governed by cousinocracy.