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16 Cards in this Set
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Boston Tea Party |
340 tea chest dumped in ocean |
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Boston Massacre |
British soilders fire into a crowd of colonist killing five mean |
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Chief Pontiac |
Ottwa Cheif who united great lakes. tried to halt the advance of European settlemeny |
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Jamestown |
The first colony in America to set up in 1607 along James river in Virginia. |
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Navigation Acts |
Limited colonist trade |
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Purtian |
Protestant group that wanted to purify or reform the Anglican Church |
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Plymouth |
Late 1620 pilgrims landed that present day is Massachusetts |
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Toleration Act of 1649 |
Reduced tensions and restricted religious rights of christians |
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Triangular Trade |
A system in which goods and slaves were traded among he Americas Britain and Africa |
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Great Awakening |
A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730's and 1740's |
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Indentured servants |
Colonist who received free passage in exchange to work wid out pay for certain yearz |
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Mayflower Compact |
Written paper saying written by pilgrims saying they were a self-government and had self guidelines |
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Slave codes |
Laws dat passed in the colonies to control |
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Quaker |
Society of Friends. People who believed salvation was abvailable for all peopl. |
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Taxes |
Government raised money from colonies and called it "taxes" |
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Fundamental orders of Connecticut |
Set of principals that made Connecticut government democratic |
