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PLYMOUTH COLONY
Who: English people
What: settled in America
Where: Plymouth
Significance: one of the first colonies to be founded by the English
In North America
MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620
Who: colonists
What: first governing document of the Plymouth colony
Where: Plymouth
Significance: inspired colonies to proclaim their own lands
HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
Who: Virginia settlers
What: a legal land grant to the settlers
Where: Virgina
Significance: it gave land to the settlers
FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639
Who: Connecticut Colony council
What: first constitution to be written
Where: Connecticut river towns
Significance: Considered by some to be the first constitution
In the western tradition
MERCANTILISM
Who: US and other nations
What: Economic theory
Where: around the world
Significance: Controls trade among nations
TRIANGULAR TRADE
Who: American and European colonies
What: A historical term indicating through the Atlantic
Where: the Atlantic Ocean
Significance: it created a worldwide trade which included 3
continents
THE GREAT AWAKENING
Who: Anglo-Americans
What: religious revival
Where: America
Significance: revival for Anglo-Americans began
Stamp Act
Who- Passed by the Parliament in great Britain
What- required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp
Where- in the Americas
When- 1765
Significance- No taxation without Representation
Declaratory Act
Who- British Parliament
What- Attempted to regulate the behaivior of the colonies
Where- In the americas
When-1766
Significance- this further incited the American Revolution.
Quartering Act
Who- Lieutenent General Thomas Cage asked parliament to pass this act.
What- to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of troops on the march
Where- In the Colonies
When- 1765
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Townshend Act
Who- Passed by British Parliament
What- was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay for governors and judges who would be independent of colonial control
Where- British colonies
When- 1767
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Boston Massacre
Who-the british soldiers who stood guard at the courthouse
What- massive shooting only killing few but brutally
Where- in front of boston courthouse
Significance- started a mass chain of events that led to the revolution.
Tea Act
Who- Passed by british parliament
What- n act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America
Where- In the Colonies
When- May 10, 1773.
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Boston Tea Party
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Coercive Act
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Mutiny Act
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Samuel Adams
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SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS:
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Slavery clause in the Declaration of Independence:
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Patrick Henry:
Who: Patrick Henry
What: One of the most important figures in the American Revolution
Where : Born Hanover County, Virginia
When : Born May 29th 1799
Significance: Remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or Give Me Death Speech"
SONS OF LIBERTY:
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What: It was a secret orginization of American Patriots, called loyalists
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