English Colines Flashcards

(42 cards)

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Jamestown

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the first permanent English settlement in North America

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John Smith

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Strict work for food

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Powhatan confederacy

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Friendly indians that taught settles to grow corn

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Bacons rebellion

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When the governee tried to stop him his followers and him attacked and burned jamestown rebellion ended with a fever

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John rolfe

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Introduced tobacco married Pocahontas

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Indentured servants

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Free trip to North America by agreeing to work without pay for period of years

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Head right system

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Colonies earned 50 acres could earn another 50 acres of land for every additional person brought from england

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Mercantilism

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Colonists traded raw materials to Great Britain and Great Britain sold manufactured goods Export more than import

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Puritans/ Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritans wanted to stay at king henrys church but wanted to purify it

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Pilgrims

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Split from Henry’s church

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Mayflower

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The ship the pilgrims went on to plymouth rock

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Mayflower compact

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Charter only for Virginia but needed a new one for Massachusetts creates first attempt of self government

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Economy/regional characteristics of New England

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Lots of town meetings and care about education bad for farming because soil and climates fish hunting merchants blacksmith ship builders are other jobs

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Middle colonies

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William Penn founded Pennsylvania and Quakers

Society of friends

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Staple crops

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Crops that are needed

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Slave codes

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Ne weapons or meetings some say owner cant free their slaves

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Middle passage

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Journey slaves took acrooss the Atlantic

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Triangular trade

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A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas Britain and Africa

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Olaudah Equaino

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Bought his freedom

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Cash crops

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Crops that brought money to the colony

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Maryland money for the Roman Catholic

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Catholic could not practice their religion in england

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Toleration Act of 1649

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Crime to restrict religious rights of christians

First law supporting religious tolerance in the English colonies

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James oglethorpe

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Got charter for Georgia colony for debtors

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Town meetings

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People talked about and decided on issues of local intrest

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Thomas Hooker
Aka father of American Democracy Created fundamental orders of Connecticut Founder of Connecticut
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Fundamental orders of Connecticut
Allowed men who were not church members to vote | Also outlined the powers of general courts
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Anne Hutchinson
Believed people did not need ministers to have a relationship with God Git kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled in Rhode Island
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Who was new York originally founded by
The dutch called New Netherland and capital was New Amsterdam
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Quakers
Aka Society of Friends made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey Believed i. Equality if men and women before god
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English Bill of Rights
In 1689 reduced power of the English monarch
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Enlightenment
Age of reason | Spread the idea of logic and reason
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Great awakening
A religious movement that swept through the colonies | Spirtualy equal in the eyes of god and politically equal
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French and Indian war
England wins take land from Mississippi
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Chief Pontiac
Fighting against england
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Proclamation of 1763
Banned British settlement west of the Appalachian mountains and ordered settlers to leave upper Ohio River Valley
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King George 3rd
Issued the proclamation of 1763
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Why did england tax the american colonies
To pay for the army for protection and war debts
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Stamp act
All paper proudcuts had a tax a stamp probed u payed tax
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Sons if Liberty
Sam adams was the leader
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Boston massacre
5 colonist died
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Boston tea party
Over 340 chest of tea dumped in Boston harbor
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Intolerable acts
England punishes Massachusetts with for acts 1. Boston harbor closed until Boston paid for ruined tea 2. Charter was cancelled 3. royal officials were sent to Britain for trail 4. General Thomas became new gov of Massachusetts