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25 Cards in this Set
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PLYMOUTH COLONY
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English Colonial Venture in North America
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620
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First governing document of Plymouth Colony
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HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
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Granted land to settlers
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FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639
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Described the government set up by the Connecticut River towns
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MERCANTILISM
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Dominate school of thought throughout the early modern period
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TRIANGULAR TRADE
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Carried Slaves, crops, and goods to other parts of the world
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THE GREAT AWAKENING
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Religious Revival
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IRON ACT 1750
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One of several reasons that caused the colonies to rebel
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INDENTURED SERVANTS
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Used for work
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
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1st commander in chief of the continental army
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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
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Organized Britain’s North American empire
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SALUTARY NEGLECT
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British policy of avoiding the regulation parliamentary laws
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STAMP ACT 1765
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very successful method of taxation within Great Britain
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STAMP ACT CONGRESS
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The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall in New York City
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SONS OF LIBERTY
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The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization of American patriots, which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution
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COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
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The committees of correspondence were bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution
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BOSTON MASSACRE
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The legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British colonies in America
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INTOLERABLE (COERCIVE) ACTS 1774
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Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
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SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after shooting in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. The Ordinance unanimously passed on July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. On August 7, 1789, the U.S. Congress affirmed the Ordinance with slight modifications under the Constitution.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is celebrated on July 4; Congress approved the day the wording of the Declaration.
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COMMON SENSE
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and the pamphlet became an immediate success. In relation to the population of the Colonies at that time, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book in American history. Common Sense presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood; forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured Common Sense like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as, “the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."
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SHAYS REBELLION
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Rebellion that caused the Articles of Confederation to be destroyed.
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IMPLIED POWERS (ELASTIC CLAUSE)
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"Implied powers" are powers not given to the government directly through the constitution, but are implied.
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GREAT COMPROMISE
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The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise, was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives.
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