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Mercantilism |
enhanced positions of capitalists, increased competition, nation as a whole was the principal actor in the economy |
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Martin Luther |
Protestant Reformation in Germany 1517, excommunicated by pope in 1520, not revolting trying to reform
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John Calvin |
predestination was central to Puritan faith of early New England, French Theologian, rejecting human institutions
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Jamestown |
first English settlement in New World in Virginia 1607, failed before for 30 years, under Queen Elizabeth 1
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Captain John Smith |
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"headright system" |
50-acre grants of land, new settlers could acquire, paying for immigrant=additional headrights, the larger the family the more land, 1 shilling per headright a year
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Sir William Berkeley |
Virginia 1642, governor, virtual autocrat, prohibited white settlement
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Bacon's Rebellion |
Bacon disagreed with Berkeley's politics, killed Indians, led towards enslaved blacks |
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Plymouth colony |
create community-based on spreading the gospel of the kingdom of christ |
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Anne Hutchison |
powerful religious figure in her own right, support from merchants, young men, Winthrop reelection prevented, accused of heresy, defy clerical authority, convicted of sedition and banished
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Stono Rebellion |
South Carolina in 1739, app. 100 Africans rose up, seized weapons, killed whites and attempted to escape south to Florida |
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"primogenture" |
the passing of all inherited properly to firstborn son |
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Great Awakening |
began in the 1730s, climax 1740s, break away from constraints and renew relations with God |
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Enlightenment |
suggested people had control over their lives and control their societies, world could be explained and could be structured along scientific lines, didn't challenge religion |
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Jonathan Edwards |
New England congregationalist, a deeply orthodox Puritan, attacked the new doctrines, preached a new the Traditional Puritan ideas of the absolute sovereignty of God, predestination and salvation by God's grace alone |