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Who is Openchancanough? |
Opechancanough was a tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy of what is now Virginia in the United States, and its leader from sometime after 1618 until his death in 1646. |
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Levellers |
a person who advocates the abolition of social distinctions |
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Mary Rowlandson |
Was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed |
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Sugar Act |
required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. |
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Hernan Cortes |
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland |
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William Berkeley |
Sir William Berkeley was a colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors of the Colony of Carolina; he was appointed to these posts by King Charles I of England, of whom he was a favourite. |
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James Davenport |
James Davenport was an American clergyman and itinerant preacher noted for his often controversial actions during the First Great Awakening. Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to an old Puritan family. |
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John Rolfe |
was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of thePowhatan Confederacy. |
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Navigation acts |
were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. They began in 1651 and ended 200 years later. |
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Zenger Trial |
a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence, , successfully argued that truth is a defense against charges of libel |
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Lemuel Haynes |
was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against slavery |
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Bartolome de las casas |
was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians |
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Nathaniel Bacon |
was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery. |
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Jonathan Sewall |
was the last British attorney general of Massachusetts. |
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Enclosure Movement |
was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village |
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Pequot war |
was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) which occurred between 1634 and 1638. |
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George Whitefield |
was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies |
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republican motherhood |
wass a 20th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution |
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encomienda |
legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies. It was based upon the practice of exacting tribute from Muslims and Jews during the Reconquista (“Reconquest”) of Muslim Spain. |
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Charles Chaucny |
He was ordained as aminister of the First Church, Boston, in 1727 and remained in that pulpit for 60 years. the most influential clergyman of his time in New England. As an intellectual he distrusted emotionalism and opposed the revivalist preaching of the Great Awakening in his Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England (1743) and other pamphlets. He became the leader of the "Old Lights" or liberals in theology in the doctrinal disputes following the Great Awakening |
