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75 Cards in this Set
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The first Permanent English settlement in America
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Jamestown
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Fort built and defended by George Washington. It helped to ignite the French and Indian War
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Fort Necessity
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War started over colonial settlements in the Ohio river Valley. Between the French and Indians versus the British and colonist
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French and Indian war
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Powhatan Princess that married John Rolfe and helped form peaceful relations between Indians and settlers
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Pocahontas
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War prior to the French and Indian war started by Metacomet over settlement in the Ohio River Valley
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King Phillip's War
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Person that introduced tobacco as a cash crop to the colonist
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John Rolfe
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People who signed a contract to work 4-7 years for a person who paid their passage to the New World
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Indentured Servants
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System where people who paid their own passage to the New World were givern 50 acres and 50 more for each passage they paid for another person
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Headright system
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The Treaty that ended the French and Indian War.
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Treaty of Paris
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What were the conditions of the Treaty of Paris?
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Btitain recieved Canada, and all French lands east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans.
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A revolt against taxes and the belief that colonist should be able to take indian land that resulted in the burning of Jamestown
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Bacon's rebellion
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A bill passed by Maryland Colony that made it against the law to restrict the religious rights of Christians
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Toleration Act of 1649
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A rebellion that was caused by an attack on British forts on the frontier by Indians that opposed the settlement of the Ohio River Valley by colonist. It caused King George to issue the Proclimation of 1763
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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A proprietary Colony that was split into two colonies
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The Carolinias
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Procliamation that banned settlement west of the Appalatician Mountains. Forces colonial settlers to leave the Ohio River Valley
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Procliamation of 1763
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Colony founded by James Olgothrope as a colony for people from English debtor's prison
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Georgia
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Laws to control slaves
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Slave codes
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Leader of the Great Awakening movement
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Johnathan Edwards
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Persons that wanted to purify or reform the Anglican Church
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Puritans
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Movement in the 1700's that spread the idea that reason and logic could be used to improve society
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Enlightenment
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Colonal group that wanted to separate from the Anglican Church
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Pilgrims
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Leader of the Enlightenment movement
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John Locke
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Rights such as life liberty and property according to John Locke
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Natural Rights
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A contract that excist between people and government in which people give power to the govenment in exchange for government procting their natural rights
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Social Contract
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Ship that landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620
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Mayflower
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Act that said that colonist could not trade sugar or cotton with any country but England and had to use British ships to transport goods and had to go through English ports and be taxed
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Navigation Acts of 1660
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Indian that helped the Pilgrims survive in Plymouth Colony
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Squanto
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Trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas
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Triangular Trade
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Puritian Settlement led by John Winthrop
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Legislative body in the colonies
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Assembly
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Passed by king James as a mesaure to control colonies put all northern colonies in America under one government under his direction
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Dominion of New Wngland
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Founder of the colony of Connecticut
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Thomas Hooker
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English Document that reduced the power of the king and increased te power of Parliament
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English Bill Of Rights
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Founded the Providence Colony Of Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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His trial showed the colonial belief in Freedom Of Press
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John Peter Zenger
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Founder of the Portsmouth colony of Rhode Island
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Anne Hutchinson
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Society of Friends; they believed in the equality of men and women
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Quakers
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1st college founded in the New World
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Harvard
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2nd college/ founded in Virgiania
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William and Mary
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Orginal name of New York
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New Amsterdam
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Colony Founded by the Dutch / directed by peter Stuyvesant
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New Netherlands
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Orginally part of Penn. until 1776 became the first state in the U.S.
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Delaware
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Crops need for every day use
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Staple Crops
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Crops planted and intended to be sold for a profit
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Cash crops
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A colony owned by a king or Queen
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Royal Colony
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A colony owned by an individual or group
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Proprietary Colony
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A two house Legislature
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Bicameral
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A set of principals that made Connecticut's government more democratic
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fundamental orders of Connecticut
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A craftsmen that is just learning his skill
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Apprentice
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A craftsperson that is sent to other masters to fine tune their skills
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Journeyman
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A craftsman that is very skilled in his trade
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Master Craftsman
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The site of the Witch Trials
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Salem Massachusetts
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Part of the Virginia Assembly elected by the people
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House of Burgesses
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First colonal legislature in America
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Virginia Assembly
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Colony founded as a refuge for Quakers
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Pennsylvania
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The city of "Brotherly love" Capital of Pennsylvania
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Philladelphia
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Government in New england where people met to discuss issues of local importance and make decisions
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Town Meeting
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Set up by Sam Adams and James Otis to share information about new British Laws and how to oppose them
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Committiees of Correspondence
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Famous Colonial slogan against British Taxation
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"no taxation without Representation"
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What did the colonist call the Coersive Acts
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The intolerable Acts
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What did the Intolerable (Coersive) Acts do?
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Closed Boston Harbor/made General Gage Governor of Mass./ Quatering Act/cancelled the charter for Massachusetts/said the colonial governor would decide when the colonial legislature would meet
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The killing of Three Colonist outside of a Boston Custom House
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Boston Massacre
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The Colonial Ship that was seized that started the Events that led to the Boston Tea Party
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The Liberty
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British Legislature
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Parliament
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Act that gave Parliament the right to make laws for the colonist in all cases whatsoever
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Declaratory Act
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Act that allowed the east India Tea Company to be the sole provider of tea for the colonies and placed a tax on Tea
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Tea act
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Act that required the colonist to pay a tax to buy a stmp to be placed on all paper goods
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Stamp Act
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Act that gave Britian the right to house soldiers in Colonial Homes
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Quartering Act
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King that first tried to take control of the colonies
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James II
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The first direct attempt to tax the colonies
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Stamp Act
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This allowed custom officials to seize ships on suspicion of smuggling
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Writs of Assistance
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Parliment Act that attmpted to tax the colonies by placing a tax on lead, glass, paper, tea and paints. It gave customs officials writs of assistance.
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Townsend Acts
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To not buy a good or goods in protest
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Boycot
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Promoted Self Government/fair laws
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Mayflower Compact
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Event that occured when colonist dressed as Indians threw Tea off a British ship into Boston Harbor
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Boston Tea Party
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