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15 Cards in this Set
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Indentured servants |
Transporting a young worker, who would work for several years to pay off the debt of their travel costs. No wage. Food+Accommodation+clothing+training 1-7 years typically 4-5 |
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Head right system |
A legal grant of land to settlers. H.r. were granted to anyone who would pay for the transportation costs of a laborer or indentured servant. 50 acres for some newly moving to the area and 100acres for people previously living in the area. Landowning masters |
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House of Burgesses 1619 |
Body of elected members of the community. The first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. The house was established by the Virginia Company -- an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North Am. Burgess=elected or appointed official of a municipality... |
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Plymouth plantation |
Separatists' own settlement apart from the Virginia Company. Pilgrims. Ended up in Cape Cod (today:Massachusetts) |
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John Winthrop |
Wealthy English puritan. One of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Governor for 12 years. City upon a hill. He established Boston. |
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Roger Williams |
English protestant theologian. Separation of church and state. Started the first baptist church in America. 1636 providence plantation. First abolitionist. 1644 Rhode Island. First separation of... |
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North- New England |
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (Boston) Triangular Trade Self governing |
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Middle colonies- Mid Atlantic |
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania |
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South |
Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia |
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Frontier |
The frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. Whites were pushed away towards the Indians. |
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Salutary neglect |
Sir Robert Walpole Non-enforcement policy |
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French and Indian War |
1754-63 French+Indian allies - English+Indian allies The Brits won. Whole empire from Canada to Florida |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
King George III Forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. |
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Sugar Act |
1764 1765-Stamp Act |
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Boston Massacre |
1770 |
