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mercantilism
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take goods from somewhere where they are common to somewhere where they're not and sell them for a profit
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Berengia
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grass and forest under water. was the Bering Straight during the Ice Age. open for several thousand years until the ice melted
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William Penn
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wealthy Quaker who founded and settled in Pennsylvania
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Columbian Exchange
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trade technology/goods between Europe and Americas when the Spanish started colonizing in the Americas
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predestination
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belief that God knows all and sees all and knows everything that's going to happen; predetermined fate
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indentured servants
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person signs up to go to America and become a servant for a certain term (mostly 7 years) and then is freed and owns land after term is up
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great awakening
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1730 - Massachusetts; effects everyone; people, esp. young Americans, felt their religion and church lost their umph, their spirituality, and was boring; new generation of preachers including Jonathon Edwards believed that we all needed to be reborn with an emotional attack
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"city on a hill"
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Puritans left england in 1630 to go to America and find an isolated place to create a pure puritan society and purify their religion; John Winthrop said this was their goal; he wanted the rest of the world to follow in their footsteps
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Royal Africa Company
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founded to supply slaves to the colonies (vast majority went to the South)
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Protestant Reformation
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1517 - Martin Luther (Catholic Monk) writes the 95 thesis and posts in on church door of his hometown and started a major break of the church; he questions the practices of simony and indulgences
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Navigation Acts
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after restoration; created a closd system; part of Mercantilism and forced colonists to trade only with britain
1. only British and British American ships can trade in Americas 2. American goods can only be transported to Britain and other colonies 3. Americans can only buy from British |
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Benjamin Franklin
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imported the ideas of Englightenment thinkers into Americas; began as a printer in philadelphia and stated a literary club to read Locke, Rousseau, de Montesquieu, etcs; held the Albany Congress and suggested having 1 supercolony
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Salem Witch Trials
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Massachusetts; 1691; group of girls begin having fits and convulsions and say witches were poking them with needles and flying and prosecuting them, etc.; puritans think witchcraft is infectious and started hiring professional witch hunters to root them out; 19 people were hung; ends when one of the girls accuses the governor's wife of witchcraft and he gets mad
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Pilgrims
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a member of a group of English Puritans fleeing religious persecution who sailed in the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620
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House of Burgesses
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if you can pay way to virginia, this gives you land and additional land for servants/laborers; elected by the colonists from among the colonists (run by colonists); 1st representative body set up in British America
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John Locke
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Egnlishman; 1689; Enlightment thinker; said "all men are created equal: and that there's a social contract between the government and the people; government exists to serve the people not the other way around; if the contract is broken, people have the right to overthrow the government
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John Smith
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fought in the Middle East; gains control of Jamestown; Strict military and enforces laws; makes peace with Natives; trades with natives for food (they give hard metal, knives, etc.); uses friendship with Pocahontas to gain relationships with her father who is the chief
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Lord Baltimore
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1634; Maryland; attracted settlers and allowed them to vote on laws (democracy); founded Maryland as a haven for catholics
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Rhode Island
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Roger Williams was kicked out of Massachusetts and told to go to Rhode Island but no one even lived there; he said you can't punish people for not following you religion and wanted separation of church and state; Providence; said you have to pay natives for land
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Albany Congress
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1754; Ben Frankli says instead of having 13 colonies, how about we get together and have 1 supercolony; idea gets rejected, but was important
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Paleo-natives
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early inhabitants of the Americas; got there through Berengia without knowing they were going between continents; got stuck there when Ice melted
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The Restoration
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1660; King Charles II is invited to return to being King of England after Cromwell's death
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New England
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an area on the northeastern coast of the U.S. that consists of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
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Magellan
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sailed for Spain; first to sail around the world; dies 2/3 of the way in the Philippines but gets the credit
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