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27 Cards in this Set
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Sumptuary Law
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statutes that limited the wearing of fine apparel to the wealthy and prominent
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Navigation Act
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said no ship could trade colonies unless constructed in England or America and crew was 75 percent English/American. Certain enumerated goods that were not made in England could only be transported from colonies to English or colonial port.
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Staple Act
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nothing could be imported into America unless it had first been transshipped through England
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Plantation Duty
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a sum of money equal to normal English customs duties to be collected on enumerated products at the various colonial ports
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Half-Way Covenant
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a compromise that allowed the grandchildren of persons in full communion to be baptized even though their parents could not demonstrate conversion
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Nathaniel Bacon
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a young man who led a rebellion against the treachery of Virginia's governor, Sir William Berkeley
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Great Migration
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the migration of Puritans to the New England colonies, primarily came to Massachusetts and did so as large groups
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Charles II
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sent 1000 soldiers to stop Bacon's Rebellion, King of England
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Royal Africa Company
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was chartered to meet the colonial planter's demands for black laborers.
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Stono Uprising
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most serious slave rebellion of the colonial period, took place in 1739. 150 South Carolina blacks took guns and killed several planters.
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Mercantilism
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the dominant commercial powers of Europe adopted this economic principle that dealt with free trade and market
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Sir William Berkeley
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governor of Virginia and was nearly overthrown during Bacon's Rebellion because he was accused of treachery
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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It was mainly because of the planter society which consisted of plantation owners and than indentured servants and slaves that worked on the plantations, rich and poor, barely any middle class
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)
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There were divisions between ruling class and involved ethnic and religious differences as well, revolution in England helped spark revolution in New York and Maryland
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Slave Trade
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between 16th and 19th centuries, 11 million slaves were traded to the Americas. However, most slaves went to the Caribbean and Brazil
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Jacob Leisler
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resented the success of the Anglo-Dutch, led a rebellion and expected support but there was little
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Cotton Mather
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a prominent Congregational minister that urged leniency and restraint, said that colonists were united by the most unanimous resolution
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John Winthrop
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founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony, created the church government known as Congregationalism
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Enumerated Goods
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goods of great value that were not produced in England such as tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, dyewoods, ginger, and more
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Nat Turner
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he was a black slave who was a preacher and prophet who believed that God had given him a sign that it was time to strike for freedom
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Jamestown Massacre
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During Bacon's rebellion, he had at one point burned Jamestown to the ground
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Led by Nathaniel Bacon, a revolt of the poor class against the planter elite and governor in Virginia
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Sir Edmund Andros
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a military veteran of tyrannical temperament who was appointed governor of Bay Colony, he alienated everyone and ruled like a tyrant and was overthrown by colonists
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Restoration
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Charles ll and James ll couldn't establish political authority and James ll was overthrown and William of Orange and Mary stepped in to take over
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King James War
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became known as the English Civil War and at end, James was overthrown and order was restored
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William and Mary
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became King and Queen of England as part of the restoration when James ll was overthrown
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Puritan Commonwealth
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most families owned land and many people were married and already raising a family, household place of work, families very successful resulting in high life expectancy and population growth
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