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26 Cards in this Set
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Anchorage |
An area that is suitable for a ship to anchor in; deep water off the shore. |
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Charter |
A document that gave colonies the legal rights to exist |
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Providence |
A seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay
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Predestination |
The Puritans believed in this idea. They believed that God chose everything even with their sacraments could not affect ones salvation; salvation |
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Intolerance |
Unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's views. |
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Mercantilism |
Beliefs in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism |
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Mayflower Compact |
An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock; allowed them to live in a civil society according to their own laws.
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Epidemic |
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time |
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John Rolfe |
One of the early settlers in Jamestown, helped revive Jamestown with the tobacco crop as it was a popular export |
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Oliver Cromwell |
English military and political leader |
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William Bradford |
English separatist, helped found the Plymouth colony. Major part and was a signature on the Mayflower Compact while aboard the Mayflower in 1620 |
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Yeoman Farmer |
Small farmer, hardworking, independent. These values pushed the yeoman farmers into the political parties alongside the Great Planters |
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Frontier Families |
Moved westward on their own, often lived on the edge of the Indian Camps. Independent. |
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Great Planter |
Top political power, great lands, slaves, wealthy |
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Aristocrats |
A social class that a particular social order considered the highest of that society. In most cases included the upper class |
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Cottage Industries |
A business or manufacturing activity carried on in a persons home |
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Henry Hudson |
English explorer, northwest passage, discovered Hudson Bay |
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Harvard |
This University was started in 1636 by the Puritans to train Ministers. |
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Indigo |
Expensive, Rare, became a large export, was limited to plantations due to its profitability only happening when done on a large scale |
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Fort Dusquene |
Established by the French in 1754, at the convergence point of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh |
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Albany Plan |
Was a plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies, suggested by Ben Franklin. Rejected due to the fact it would give too much power to a unified group of colonial leaders, also giving the opportunity for states to tax. |
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Seven Years War |
Fought between 1754 and 1763. |
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Salutary Neglect |
Refers to the 17th and 18th century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England
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British Mercantilism |
Restricted many things so that England remained in control of the colonies |
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Proclamation Line of 1763 |
Forbade all settlement past the Appalachian Mountains in the colonies to mainly conciliate the Indians, but also to keep the colonists in check |
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Taxation without Representation |
The colonists used this saying when the King was taxing the colonies without proper representation in England to have any say in what was going on |
