Unit 1 : Founding Of The New Nation, 1500 - 1783

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Iroquois Confederation

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A confederation, which consisted of the first five native American districts.

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Separatists

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Were radical Puritans who wanted freedom of worship and freedom form the English church.

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merchant capitalists

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They were a social and economic class that depended on the merchants to helps sell and keep their economy on a rise.

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mercantilism

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Called to attempt to export many of their items and limit their imports.

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headright system

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A system in which settlers gained fifty acres of land and tried to attract new settlers.

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Maryland's Act concerning religion

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assured freedom of worship to all Christians.

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sir William Berkeley

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appointed governor of Virginia and helped to move westward, but tried to protect Indian land.

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William Bradford

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The Plymouth governor who helped pay off the plymouth's debts to England.

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john Winthrop

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Governor of Massachusetts Bay Company who led the expedition that sailed to New England in 1630.

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Thomas hooker

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defied the Massachusetts government and established the town of Hartford.

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Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut

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The constitution of Connecticut

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Edmund Andros

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Was a very strict and stern man, who watched over the new dominion.

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Roger Williams

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Called for a complete separation of the church and state in Massachusetts. He was Banished and soon created Rhode Island.

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Jacob Leisler

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Attempted to stabilize his power as head of government in New York, but could not win and eventually was hung.

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John Rolfe

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Helped boost the economy by making a new kind of Tobacco.

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John Trumbull

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an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War famous for his historical paintings including his Declaration of Independence.

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Benjamin West

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an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence.

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Phyllis wheatley

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the first published African American poet and first African-American woman whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature.

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John Peter Zenger

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He printed another man's document that criticized William Cosby, Governor of New York, who had him arrested on a charge of seditious libel.

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Virginia House of Burgesses

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the first elected lower house in the legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619.

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Patroon System

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a plan set up by the Dutch West India Company in 1629.Any member of the company who paid to bring over 50 settlers within four years could have a large tract of land.

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Bacon's Rebellion

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It was one of the first times that poor whites and poor blacks were united in a cause. This was a fear of the ruling class, and it led to the hardening of racial lines with slavery.

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King Phillips War

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n armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676.

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Paxton Boys and Regulator Movement

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a vigilante group that murdered at least twenty Native Americans in events sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre. a North Carolina uprising, lasting from approximately 1764 to 1771, where citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials.

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Navigation Acts

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a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies.

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Enumerated goods

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Enumerated goods were those listed items taxed directly for each item individually by the British to the American colonists.

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Stono Rebellion

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It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.

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Halfway Covenant

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a form of partial church membership created by New England Puritans in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose.

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Proclamation of 1763

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The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.

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Sons of Liberty

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a secret organization of American patriots which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution

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Gaspee Incident

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a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. In a notorious act of defiance, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown, attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship.

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Mercy Otis Warren

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an American writer and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution". Mercy Otis was America's first female playwright, having written unbylined anti-British and anti-Loyalist propaganda plays from 1772 to 1775, and was the first woman to create a Jeffersonian (anti-Federalist) interpretation of the Revolution.

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Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania

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Letters sent in by a common farmer from Pennsylvania, who talks about how he is being poorly treated by his government.