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59 Cards in this Set
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What was the virginia co?
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bussiness venture for wealth not to settle land
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who was the virginia planmade up of?
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2 and 3rd sons getting money from the 1st son
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How did Indentured servants start?
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americas needed more people to help crop the land for tobacco while london had an excess of people who were going to be murdered and london sent them over to help
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what was the contract of an indentured servant
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4-6 yrs,freee boat ride,50 acres, a new suit, tools , animal
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how long did a child have to serve as an indentured servant?
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till they were 21 yrs
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what was the law of inheritance?
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1st son everything
2nd son military 3rd clergy pastor 4th gentlman (no work) |
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who built the city upon a hill
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puritans
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where did the puritans come from
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england
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where did the puritans move to
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holland
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what were the prupose of the puritans
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to build a city so clean and pure that the royals would want part of them and to give them power
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puritans were extremely
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paranoid
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The middle colonies constisted of what?
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ny, penn, nj, delaware
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what are the three reasons for the middle colonies
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geogreaphic, economics (middle farms) social
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the hub of the south is?
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va
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3 reasons why slave revolts were rare in the w. indies
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diversity(couldnt communicate)
punishment (ruthless and public) work slaves to death 30 days life expectancy |
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what is salitary neglect
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giving america their indepence...america stays even more loyal than when they were inforcing it
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what is the number 1 cause of the american revolution
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salitary neglect
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what was the enlightment>
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time of discovery philosphy poetry aret scienceintellectual intellegence
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what ends salitary neglect
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the end of the french and indian war aka when england gains territory and debt
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who won the french and indian war?
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england
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what happened to the french after the seven year war?
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they were kicked out of the west hemisphere
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what happend to england after the seven year war
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they gained territoy and debt
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who was fighting in the seven years war?
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the french and england
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what started the seven year war
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washington is sent to ft nessity to claim it when the french attack ahim and send him back
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what were the committes of correspondance?
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helped the colonis unite an know what was going on
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who wrote common sense and what was it about?
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thomas payne and stated that america wanted indepnednce
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declaration of I stated what?
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stick it to england
unite the colonies appeal for foreign aid |
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what was the british soldiers strategy?
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too iscolate NE but they didnt understand the unity of the colonies
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why america won
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by taking time
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what was the virginia plan
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proprotianl representation
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what was the slave compromise consist of
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slave trade ends in 20 years
3/5 compromise fugitive slave law |
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what is primogeniture?
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inheritance law
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....detirmines experience?
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geography
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what did the virginia co make money off of?
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tobacco
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what were pilgrams also known as
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serperatists
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who sold land to the puritans?
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the virginia co
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what did the puratins call thier new settlement?
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plymoth colony
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what did puratins believe
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they believed in predestination
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why did the puratin church fall apart?
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because they stopped going to church cuz it didnt matter
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what is the hub of the north
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mass
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how did slavery start?
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it started when a ship of slaves from africa to the w. indies and got lost ended up in va. 20 africans traded for supplies and repairs....then they realized they were better workers
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who was the black plantaion owner with white slaves?
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anthony johnson
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who was the slave who ran away and was sentenaced to be a slave for life?
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john punch
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who controlled the w indies?
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england
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what was the w. indies profitable for?
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sugar
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what was the sugar act for
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to help get out of debt
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what were the taxation acts
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the sugar act, the stamp act, the quartering act
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what was taxes on in the quartering act
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take care of the soldiers
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what were the taxes on the stamp act
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all paper
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what are the townshead acts taxeson?
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paint glass paper sugar tea
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who signs the d of i
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the second conential congress
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what does the d of i first orders of bussiness
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1 get a army 2 olive branch petition
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what is the purpose of the olive branch petition
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letter to the king declaring peace
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who writes the d of i
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thomas jefferson
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what was the state constutuion of penn?
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democratic( people have the power
large unicameral legstrative 1 house no excutive dependent judicary |
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what was the state constutuion of mass?
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republican
gov representives speak for mass small bicameral legistrature excutive w/ veto independent judicary |
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release articles of confederation stated what
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foreign expltation
state vs state shipping taxes 2 trade wars between states people revolts |
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what was the great compromise
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sherman said 2 rep per state in the senate
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what were the convention breakers
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slavery and proportinal rep
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