History Midterm

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Predestination

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idea that you are born either going to heaven or hell

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Proclamation of 1763

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- prevented colonists from provoking conflict with Indians

- forbade colonists to purchase land west Appalachians

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Currency Act

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- prohibited colonial governments from issuing paper money

- required all taxes and debts to british merchants to be paid in British money

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Stamp Act

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- increased revenues to pay for military colonies

- required tax stamp on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, pamphlets, & playing cards

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Tea Act

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- authorized the East India Company to sell tea directly America

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Boston Tea Party

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Colonists in Boston disguised as Indians and dumped British tea into Harbor

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Quartering Act

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required colonial governments to house British soldiers

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Paul Revere

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"the british are coming!"

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Federalists

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supported Constitution, wanted strong central government with shared powers between states and national government

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Anti-Federalists

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wanted weaker national government

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Treaty of Paris

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brought peace, ended French and Indian War,

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Natives view on Women

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believed women were their sacred, shared

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Coveture

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when a woman married, everything became her husbands

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Native Gender Roles

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premarital sex, divorce, women performed agricultural duties

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Columbian Exchange

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exchange of food, animals, and disease

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Bartolome' de las Casas

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Spanish rule, injustice towards Natives, favored African slavery

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Christopher Columbus

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led to demise of native peoples, enslaved inhabitants, transfer of diseases, importation of African slaves

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Martin Luther

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believed in paying money to ensure access to heaven (indulgences), believed faith could bring salvation, believed people should read the bible themselves instead of listening to a priest

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John Calvin

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believed that when you're born God knows if you're going to Heaven or Hell, first governor of Massachusetts Bay

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Henry VIII

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seized catholic property, strengthened protestant reformation

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Bloody Queen Mary

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burned protestants at the stake

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Queen Elizabeth

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(protestant) challenged Spain's dominance, brought stability to nation, told pirates to invade Spain's ships

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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financed and organized trips to Roanoke

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Separatists/Pilgrims

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fled Holland, spiritual wonders, complete separation for Church of Enlgand

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Mayflower Compact

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first written form of government

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Puritans

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believed in predestination, created Godly churches to serve as role models, valued education,

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John Winthrop

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lawyer, covenant with God

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Women in Puritan Society

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could become full church members, kept silent in church, life devoted to bearing children

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Pequot War

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conflict between settlers and Pequots over land and trade

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Salem Witch Trials

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girls in Salem village accused people of being witches

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Anne Hutchinson

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had meetings in her house discussing religious meetings, found guilty of sedition and banished

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Roger Williams

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advocate of religious toleration in New England

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Slavery in the Caribbean Colonies

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sugar, mostly in Barbados, 20,000 slaves died due to poor conditions and cruelty

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Female Slaves

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80% worked in feilds, much of her life spent pregnant (breeders), biggest threat was being sold

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Slavery in America

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driven by limitless profit, racial hatred, fear poor whites would join blacks and overturn social order

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James Oglethorpe

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wanted to rehabilitate the poor with no slavery, no alcohol in Georgia

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Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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book he wrote convincing people that having a strong national government was bad

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French and Indian War

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French and Indians VS. England, caused American Revolution

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3/5s clause

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slaves counted as 3/5s of a person for purposes of taxation and representation

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Virginia Plan

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big state plan: congress would elect executive who would serve only 1 term, judicial branch would have a supreme court, judges serve for life

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New Jersey Plan

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small state plan: one house in congress, all members elected by state legislatures, each state would have only 1 vote, 2 executives, supreme court appointed for life

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1st Continental Congress

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56 delegates met (except Georgia) to find solution to King George problem

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Shay's Rebellion

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got rid of Articles of Confederation, 1,500 farmers marched to capital to stop the seizure of their land for failure to pay taxes

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Indulgences

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paying money to ensure access to heaven

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Jamestown

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First permanent english settlement (now U.S.), founded because rich people (Virginia Company) were looking for gold, became poor, resorted to cannibalism

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Indentured Servants

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slaves worked for seven years and then released, received citizenship, tools, & money

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Articles of Confederation

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1st written constitution

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Boston Massacre

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a fight between crowd and stationed British troops that escalated to the death of five people

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Sons of Liberty

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rebels, boycotted British imports, posted signs

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Daughters of Liberty

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made their own clothes to avoid purchases British goods

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Deborah Sampson

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disguised herself as a man at age 21 and enlisted in the Continental army

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Intolerable Acts

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after Boston Tea Party, Britain closed all trade to Boston until all tea was paid for and stationed military commanders in private homes