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20 Cards in this Set
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American Indians |
People who lived in America before it was colonized by Europeans. |
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Marco Polo's Travels |
A book that led many Europeans to believe that they could trade with China over land |
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Gold, God, & Glory |
Europeans were focused on wealth, religion, and prestige and wanted the American Indians to be along with them |
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Geopolitical Conflict |
Conflict between Spain and and England leading to England desiring colonies in America |
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Harriot's Briefe and True Report |
A scientist who said that there was many benefits in Virginia, ie. Copper, iron, furs, grapes, and people |
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English Reformation |
Religious problems at home country led to England wanting to colonize other places
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Church of England |
This was the major religion and the Puritans wanted to fix, the Separatists wanted to get rid of it
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Stuart Monarchs |
The Kings and Queens starting with James I in 1603 and ending in 1714. They had no respect for representation and they caused all the Puritans and Separatists to leave England
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Massachusetts Bay Company |
Christian community founded in response to Charles I because he was completely Anti-Puritan
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Puritans |
Their ideas influenced the land distribution in New England colonies. Religion permeated ever facet of New England Life. Gotta be a member to vote. Strict moral codes. |
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Imperialism |
Increased imperialism lead to conflict between European powers and Native Americans. To take over using power, military power. It developed ESP problems in the colonies. |
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Indentured Servants |
Lack of them causing tobacco growers to go hardcore on slavery |
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Slave Trade |
Tobacco users relied on this rather than indentured servitude in order to get free labor and increase production and lower production costs, increasing profit. |
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Mercantilism |
The colonies sell raw goods to the mother country, mother country makes stuff, increases the cost, sells back to the colonies. |
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James II |
Tried to increase Britain's power by reducing the colonies political autonomy |
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Genteel Culture |
A group of elite people who lived unlike people of the seventeenth century and unlike the colonists of the eighteenth. |
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The Enlightenment |
Period of time where everyone tried to use empiricism and learn from nature, but only the stuff that could be sensed |
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John Locke |
The guy who originally founded the life, liberty, and property believe. The Isaac Newton of politics |
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Colonial Assemblies |
Elected American Leaders who believed they were defending the colonists liberty, but didn't give a crap about the poor |
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Great Awakening |
Jonathan Edwards belief that America needed to turn back from their progressive nature and that they would burn in hell for the stuff they are doing. |
