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19 Cards in this Set
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New England families |
Nuclear, father mother children, balanced sex ratio and high survival rates |
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Halfway Covenant 1662 |
Partial membership they could be baptized but not take communion or vote, goal to attract more members |
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old deluder Satan law |
Ignorance was a satanic ill, children must be educated |
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New England became the most literate section of country |
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social hierarchy |
In New England most were neither rich nor poor few servants |
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Economy of Chesapeake |
Tobacco generated great inequality, some large fortunes, other barely subsisted, tobacco also required large work force, the larger the better, indentured servants, black slaves, Indian servants |
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social class in the Chesapeake |
Gentry - upper class landowners, Freemen - largest class, live near poverty, indentured servants - not demeaning, learn skills |
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Middle Passage |
Terrible Voyage from Africa to the Americas, many deaths |
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triangular trade |
Europe to West Africa, guns, alcohol, horses common household goods, Africa to the Americas slaves, the Americas to Europe rum sugar cotton tobacco and coffee |
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Stono uprising |
1739, 150 slaves revolted near Charleston, seized weapons, killed several planters |
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Northern slaves |
Much more contact with whites than Southern slaves harder to keep cultural identity |
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mercantilism (coined by Adam Smith) |
A country needed to have a favorable trade policy, export more than import, Colonial possessions rich in natural resources were vital and reaching this balance |
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Navigation Acts |
Most important legislation before the Revolution, ships had to be constructed in England or America and the crew 75% English, certain Goods could only be sold to England, Americans had to pay import taxes, Goods to America had to first pass through England |
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Bacon's Rebellion 1676 |
Bacon attach local Indians for Revenge, Governor William Berkeley was a lie of Indians, bacon and burned Jamestown, Berkeley fled, bacon died and his army was killed |
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Significance of Bacon's Rebellion |
Planters all white indentured servants is too difficult to control and significantly increased importation of black slaves while reducing the number of indentured servants |
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Piquot War ( 1636 - 1637 ) |
CT, Puritans killed 400 Indian men, women and children |
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King Philip's War 1675 |
King Philip (metacom) burned 52 Puritan towns, colonists were ultimately Victorious, thousands died on either side, Many Indians captured and sold as |
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Dominion of New England |
Incorporated Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Plymouth, New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire. Under a single royal governor, from 1686 to 1689, colonists hated this |
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Salem witch trials |
Puritan Witch Hunt in 1692, Tituba, 20 executed for witchcraft |
