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33 Cards in this Set
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1. Fixed wealth in the world 2.nations gained wealth at the expense of others 3. Export more than you import 4. Government's with the most precious metals would be better off These economies use colonies to benefit the mother country |
Mercantilism |
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Dictated what goods would be traded in the colonies. |
Navigation acts |
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Granted a charter to form colony of Pennsylvania in 1681 |
William Penn |
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Had no legitimate heir, so his brother, James 2nd became king |
Charles 2nd |
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Flaunted Roman Catholicism; wanted to create the "Dominion" in New England which inspires rebellion in the colonies Fled the country to escape his father's fate in 1688 |
James 2nd |
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Invited to rule in England- Glorious Revolution |
Mary and William |
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Another example of the removal 9f a monarch Economically, it resulted in a balance between complete freedom of trade and the kind of control sought by previous monarchs Molasses act 1733 Failure to Enforce many of these laws and England's preoccupation with France and Spain leads to the era of "salutary neglect" England's constitutional revolution occurs on the eve of a major intellectual movement |
Glorious revolution |
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The "age of reason" Deism A secular movement? |
The enlightenment |
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A firm trust in the ability of the human mind to solve earthly problems |
Rationalism |
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Religious movement in the 1720's and 1730's |
The great awakening |
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
Jonathan Edwards |
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Old lights v. New lights |
George Whitefield |
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Resulted in Border Raids. War if the league of Augsburg |
King William's war. |
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War of the Spanish succession. Resulted in colonial skirmishes with Spain and France |
Queen Anne's War |
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War of the Austrian succession. The Americans won louisbourg at the St. Lawrence River, it was returned in the peace treaty |
King George's War |
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Seven years war. Competition between France and England over the Ohio river valley French settled forts near present-day Pittsburgh- Ft. Duquesne |
The French and Indian War |
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Instituted the sugar act, currency act, and stamp act Defended taxes by stating that British subjects at home pay the tax, and that collective debt of colonists is only a fraction Britain's debt |
George Grenville |
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First attempt to directly tax the colonists |
Stamp Act |
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Met with mild protest: Steven Hopkins and the concept No taxation without representation |
Sugar act |
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"No taxation without representation" |
Steven Hopkins |
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Passed the Suffolk Resolves Passed the Suffolk Resolves Revealed that military struggle was to be inevitable Passed the Suffolk Resolves Revealed that military struggle was to be inevitable Revealed that military struggle was to be inevitable |
First continental congress |
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Taxed luxury goods like lead, paper, glass, paint, and tea |
Townsend duties |
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Resulted in removal of troops from the city, and created a greater rift in British/American politics |
Boston massacre |
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Closed ports of Boston Suspended charter of Massachusetts Expanded power of Royal Governor Abolished elective council |
Coercive acts |
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Taxed tea |
Tea act |
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Formed in Philadelphia |
Second continental congress |
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First battles of the revolution |
Lexington and Concord |
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Went to concord the confiscate arms |
General Thomas gage |
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Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 |
Declaration of Independence |
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First major defeat of the british |
Saratoga |
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The belief that more loyalists resides in the south |
Southern strategy |
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Where Cornwallis retreats to near the Chesapeake, and where the war ends. |
Yorktown. |
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Return of lands to French and Spanish 13 colonies recognized by Europe as a separate nation Mississipi River is the boundary in the West Did not achieve Canada- even though early in the war colonists had attempted to take Quebec. |
Treaty of Paris 1783 |
