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28 Cards in this Set
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Sumptuary Law
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Laws that limited the wearing of fine apparel to the wealthy and prominent.
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Navigation Act
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Trade regulations passed by Parliament to benefit England's wealth as well as compete with rivals and exclude the Dutch from colonial trade.
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Staple Act
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Second Navigation Act that stated that nothing could be imported to America unless it had been first shipped through England.
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Plantation Duty
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A sum of money that would equal the sum of money paid to an English port that had to be paid when a boat arrived in another colonial port.
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Half-Way Covenant
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Allowed grandchildren of Congregational church members to be baptized even though their parents could not demonstrate conversion.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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A Virginian planter that was interested in the fur trade and led the rebellion against Sir William Berkeley.
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Great Migration
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The movement of Puritans to America that brought around 20,000 people the New World in the 1630's and 1640's.
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Charles II
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Restored to the English throne in 1660. King of England from 1660 to 1685. The Navigation Acts were passed under his rule.
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Royal Africa Company
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A trading company chartered in 1672 to meet the colonial planters' demands for black laborers.
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Stono Uprising
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Uprising of slaves in South Carolina in 1739. Short lived, but increased worries of slave rebellion.
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Mercantilism
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An economic theory that in order to increase its wealth, a nation needed to export more goods than it imported and that a nation can benefit at the expense of another.
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Sir William Berkeley
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Governor of Virginia.
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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There were a few very rich planters in the Chesapeake and it was difficult for freemen to improve their social class, thus creating an economic gap.
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Glorious Revolution New England
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People overthrow royal governor Sir Edmund Andros.
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Glorious Revolution New York
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People rise up against the royal government just like in New England.
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Slave Trade
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Shipping of slaves from Africa to America, South America, Europe, and the West Indies.
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Jacob Leisler
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A Dutch elite who resented the success of the Anglo-Dutch.
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Cotton Mather
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A leading Congregational minister in Massachusetts.
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John Winthrop
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Founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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Enumerated Goods
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Certain goods produced in the colonies that were not produced in England, such as tobacco, indigo, cotton, sugar, dyewoods, and ginger.
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Nat Turner
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An African slave that lead a rebellion in 1831.
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Jamestown Massacre
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In 1622 and 1644, the Powhattans tried to drive the settlers out of virginia
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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A rebellion against Virginia's governor, William Berkeley, led by Nathaniel Bacon. Collapsed after Bacon's death, but was reformulated in the 18th century to oppose royal governors.
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Edmund Andros
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The royal governor of all colonies from Maine to New Jersey.
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Restoration
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The return of the Stuarts to the throne.
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King James War
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War between England and French and Indian allies.
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William and Mary
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Mary was James II's daughter. She and her husband, William, took the throne after James was sent into exile.
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Puritan Commonwealth
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Families were the foundation for churches.
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