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39 Cards in this Set
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1607 |
Date of the first successful English settlement in America-Jamestown, Virginia. |
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mercantilism |
An economic reason for the settlement of English colonies; market for manufactured goods and source of raw materials |
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New England Region |
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island |
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Pilgrim's & Puritans |
Settled Massachusetts (New England) to escape religious persecution in England |
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Mayflower Compact |
Written by the Pilgrims in 1620; agreed to obey the laws that they made; established self-government and idea of majority rule |
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Middle Region |
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
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New York |
Originally founded by the Dutch; taken over by the English |
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William Penn |
A Quaker who founded Pennsylvania in 1681; experiment in religious freedom and equality |
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Southern Region |
Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia |
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Maryland |
Established in 1632 by Roman Catholics fleeing religious persection |
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Georgia |
Established in 1732 as a barrier to Spanish Florida and to give debtors a new start |
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Roger Williams |
Founder of Rhode Island; split from the Puritans |
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James Oglethorpe |
Founder of Georgia |
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Cecil/James Calvert - Lord Baltimore |
Founder of Maryland |
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ports/harbors |
What do Boston, Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia have in common? |
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Middle Passage |
The hot, crowded, and deadly slave voyage from Africa to the Americas |
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Maryland Toleration Act |
The law giving everyone in colonial Maryland the right to worship as they wished |
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Mayflower Compact |
A colonial document that stressed the importance of making laws for the common (general) good and ideas of self-government and majority rule |
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representative govt |
A type of government in which citizens elect representatives to make and enforce laws |
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colonial assembly |
An early example of representative government in the colonies; distance from England is one reason for its evolution |
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Parliament |
Law-making body in England that was used as a model for our colonial assemblies |
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Great Awakening |
A religious movement during colonial times that resulted in the questioning of authority, a belief in equality and the beginning of many new churches
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Virginia House of Burgesses |
The first elected representative assembly in the colonies |
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slavery |
Began in the South because they needed a cheap form of labor |
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Southern Region |
Had a long growing season; cash crops like tobacco and used African slaves for labor |
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New England Region |
Turned to trade, ship building, and timber because of the rocky soil and short growing season |
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Middle Region |
Known as the "breadbasket" colonies |
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Navigation Acts |
Laws passed by Parliament to enforce mercantilism |
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Albany Plan of Union |
Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite the Americans to fight the French; "Join or Die" |
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French & Indian War |
(1754-1763) The British defeated the French and gained control of most of the northern and eastern parts of North America; led to the Proclamation of 1763 |
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Quakers |
Religious group that promoted the idea of tolerance and opposed slavery
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English Bill of Rights |
English document that guaranteed certain rights; all laws must be made by Parliament and not the king; (1689); influenced our Bill of Rights and Constitution |
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Puritans |
Religious group that has no separation of church and state; believe the church and state share a common purpose |
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Colonial Era |
Colonies established, conflict with Native Americans, and the beginnings of representative governement |
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Magna Carta |
English document that first guaranteed the right of trial by jury; written in 1215; no taxation without representation for nobles; influenced our Bill of Rights |
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Appalachian Mountains |
Before the American Revolution, what was the western boundary of the colonies? |
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John Locke |
His ideas of unalienable rights were used by Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independece |
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White men with property |
In colonial times, what group of people were allowed to vote? |
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Great Awakening |
Many churches split, people started questioning authority, and became more engaged in religion during the? |