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what is the protestant reformation
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christian reform movement in europe which shattered the religous unity of Europe
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what is anglicanc church
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adapted calvanist doctrines but kept much catholic liturgy
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who were puritans
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Associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of worship and doctrine
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what is predestination
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idea that god decreed
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who were the huguenots
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members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
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politique
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one who insists that the survival of the state take precedence over religous differences
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coureurs de bois
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roamers of the woods
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governor-general
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one who is responsible for military and diplomatic affairs
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tithe
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one/tenth of ur income to tax
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militia
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military force composed of ordinary citizens
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seigneurs
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gentry
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what the states general
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the dutch settlement's government that each province sent representatives to
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patroonships
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vast estates under a single landlord
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yankees
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ppl who live in the north
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quakers
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religous society of friends religion
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non-seperatists
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puritans who insisted they were loyal to the true church of england and resisted any relaxation of calvanist rigo
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seperatists
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extreme puritans
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plymouth
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a colony founded by the the puritans
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sir walter ralegh
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gilbert's half brother
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jamestown
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first successful english settlement in north america
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captain john smith
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a soldier and adventurer who outmaneuvered other members of the colony's ruling council and took charge
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joint stock company
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resembled modern corporation except that each stockholder had only one vote regardless of how many shares he owned
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house of burgesses
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an assembly where the settlers meet with the governor and his council and make local laws
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headright system
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colonists recieved 50 acres for each person whose passage to virginia he financed
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royal colony
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when the king control a colony
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indentured servants
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laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time
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oligarchy
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form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royal
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parishes
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territorial unit that was usually historically served by a local church
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vestry
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storage room in or attached to a church
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proprietary colonies
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colony in which one or more private land owners retain rights that are normally the privilege of the state
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bicameral legislature
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legislature which consists of two chambers or Houses.
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established church
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A church that a government officially recognizes as a national institution and to which it accords support.
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sachem
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chief
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pilgrims
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seperatists who left england for the netherlands between 1607 and 1609
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covenant theology
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system in which god had made 2 biblical covenant of works
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the elect
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who make up the church
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magistrates
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judges
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massachusettes bay colony
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typical joint-stock corporation except the charter didnt specify where the company was to be located
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anne hutchinson
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a merchant's wife and admirer of john cotton
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open-field agriculture
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medieval system that appeared nowhere else in colonial america
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half-way covenant
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parents whod been baptized but not experienced conversion could bring their kids b4 church "own the covenant" and have their kids baptized
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restoration era
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era between 1660 and 1688 when the English
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cavaliers
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the new proprieters who supported charles II and his brother james
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pacifists
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quakers
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public friends
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the quaker's almost clergy
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william penn
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English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania
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inns of court
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england's law schools
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quitrents
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form of levy or land tax imposed on freehold or leased land by a higher landowning authority
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mercantalism
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economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital
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balance of trade
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that a healthy nation should export more than it imports
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enumerated commodities
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olonial products permitted to be exported only to limited destinations
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mourning wars
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when the coastal tribes devasted by disease attacked eachother
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piedmont
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the land above the fall line but below the appalachian mountains
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iroquis league
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a confederation of 5 indian nations centered around the mohawk valley who were very active in the fur trade
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covenant chain of peace
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an agreement negotiated by governor edmund andros in 1677 that linked the colony of new york to the iroquois 5 nations and was later expanded to include other colonies and indian peoples
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powwows
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prophets or medicine men
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metacom's war
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a war that devastated much of southern new england in 1675-1676. it began as a conflict between metacom's wampanoags and plymouth colony but soon engulfed all of the new england colonies and most of the region's indian nations
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praying indians
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christian indians of new england
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whigs
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the name of an obscure sect of scottish religous extremists who favored the assassination of charles & james of england
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tories
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a term for irish catholic peasants who murdered protestant landlords
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salem witch trials
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about 150 ppl were accused of witchcraft in massachusettes
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funded national debt
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the state agreed to pay the interest due to its creditors before all other obligations
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onontio
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an algonquian word that means "great mountain" used by indians to designate the governor of new france
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entail
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a large devise that required a landowner to keep his estate intact and pass it on to his heir
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primogeniture
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obliged the man to leave all his land to his eldest surviving son
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