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Half-Way Covenant
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a compromise that allowed the grandchildren of persons in full communion to be baptized even though their parents couldn't demonstrate conversion.
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Sumptuary Laws
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Statutes that limited the wearing of fine apparel to the wealthy and prominent to curb the pretensions of those of lower status.
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Navigation Act
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Laws passed by the English about trading to attempt to eliminate trade with the Dutch.
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Mercantilism
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# an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
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Great Migration
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the migration in this period of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts, 1630-40
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Staple Act
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a second navigation act that stated that nothing could be imported into america unless it had first been transshipped though england
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Plantation Duty
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the plantation duty act was a law requiring money collected in colonial ports to be equal to english customs durties (it was part of the navigation acts)
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Nathaniel Bacon
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The man who started Bacon's Rebellion because he was denied a license in the fur trade and he was denied the right to attack Indians.
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Charles II
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monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Royal Africa Company
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chartered to meet the colonial planter's demands for black laborer's
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Stono Uprising
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150 slaves rose up, seizing guns and ammunition, and murdered several white planters.
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Sir William Berkeley
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the governer of Virginia who Nathaniel Bacon rose up and started a rebellion against.
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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
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the wealthy planters had alot more money then the poor freemen. Freemen lived on the edge of poverty and almost none owned land and no one was able to advance to a planter.
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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)- When the Glorious Revolution reached New York City in May 1689, Leisler raised a group of militiamen and seized the local fort in the name of William and Mary. In England there were two significant clashes between the two armies, and anti-Catholic riots in several towns.
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- When the Glorious Revolution reached New York City in May 1689, Leisler raised a group of militiamen and seized the local fort in the name of William and Mary. In England there were two significant clashes between the two armies, and anti-Catholic riots in several towns.
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Slave Trade
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- Slave traders carried almost eleven million blacks to the Americas. Most of these men were sold in the Caribbean or Brazil.
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Jacob Leisler
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- He was the son of a German minister. He emigrated to NY in 1660 and through marriage aligned himself with the Dutch elite. He resented the success of the Anglo-Dutch. Lead the Leisler Revolution.
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Cotton Mather
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- He was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister. He is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.
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John Winthrop
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- was one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I. In 1630 he led a group of colonists to the New World, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River.
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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' Examples were tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, dyewoods, and ginger.
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Nat Turner
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- (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths.
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Jamestown Massacre
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The Jamestown Massacre of 1622 occurred in the Colony of Virginia. The Indians grabbed any tools or weapons available to them and killed any English settlers that were in sight, including men, women and children of all ages during this year.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon. About a thousand Virginians rose because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans. When Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements, others took matters into their own hands, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and torching the capitol.
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Edmund Andros
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Sir Edmund Andros, 3rd and 5th Royal Governor of Maryland (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714) was an early colonial English governor in North America, and head of the Dominion of New England for most of its three-year existence. He also governed at various times the provinces of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland.
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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.
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King James War
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This was a war that King James had declared when the enemies of England tried to attack them.
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William and Mary
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Their joint reign began in February 1689, when they were called to the throne by Parliament, replacing James II & VII, Mary's father and William's uncle/father-in-law, who was "deemed to have fled" the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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Puritan Commonwealth
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The Commonwealth of England was the republic which ruled first England, and then Ireland and Scotland from 1649 to 1660. Between 1653 and 1659 it was known as the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
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