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nathaniel bacon
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was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
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great migration
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The Great Migration was the movement of 4.1 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930
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charles 2
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was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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royal africa company
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was a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants once the former retook the English throne in the English Restoration of 1660. It was led by James, Duke of York, Charles II's brother.
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stono uprising
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was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
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mercantilism
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an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests: commerce transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities
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sir william berkeley
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was a governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favorite. He was governor from 1641-1652 and 1660-1677, as proprietor of Green Spring Plantation in James City County. Nathaniel Bacon rebelled against him.
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economic gap in the chesapeake colonies
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there were extreme gaps between the wealthy, the middle status, and the poor
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glorious revolution (england and new york)
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the overthrow of King James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau. William then came to power.
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slave trade
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was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean.
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jacob leisler
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Beginning in 1689, he led an insurrection named Leisler's Rebellion in colonial New York, seizing control of the colony until he was captured and executed in New York City for treason against William and Mary
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cotton mather
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helped bring the Salem Witch trials to an end. And allowed spectral evidence in the court
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john winthrop
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obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles I for the Massachusetts Bay Company and led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630. He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony the year before.
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enumerated goods
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Those goods that were taxed individually from the colonists to England. Led to 'No taxation without representation'
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nat turner
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 deaths among their victims, the largest number of white fatalities to occur in one uprising in the antebellum southern United States
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jamestown massacre
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The Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the Virginia Colony on Friday, March 22, 1622. As John Smith relates in his History of Virginia, the Indians “came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us
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bacon's rebellion
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Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year
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edmund andros
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military veteran of tyrannical temperament, selected as royal governor over the collection of colonies known as the Dominion. was know for his very strict and freedom limiting policies. Edit
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restoration
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The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
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king james war
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king james disliked representative institutions, and decided to restructure the government of the entire region in the Dominion of New England. this started the King james war
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william and mary
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college in Virginia, where children of wealthy creoles went for higher learning
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puritan commonwealth
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people were encouraged to marry, life was not easy if you were single.
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sumptuary law
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are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption
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navigation act
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The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651. At their outset, they were a factor in the Anglo-Dutch Wars
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staple act
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was and alternative name for the navigation acts of 1663. Which made colonists and people from other countries pay a duty to trade goods.
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plantation duty
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An act was passed stating that a duty ( tax ) was to be taken from the colonial ports
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Half-Way Covenant
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The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose
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