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7 Red SS Midterm Rev
7 Red SS Midterm Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Puritans | English dissenters who wanted to reform the church of England. |
| Pilgrims | Separatist group that traveled to gain religious freedom. |
| Quakers | A group of Protestant dissenters, lived in PA |
| Charter | Written contract giving the right to establish a colony. |
| Navagation Acts | Laws passed by the English government to ensure that England made money from its colonies. |
| Mercantilism | Economic theory that colonies exist to benefit their mother country. |
| Exports | Goods sent OUT of a country |
| Imports | Goods coming IN to a country |
| Triangular trade | Trans-atlantic exchange of slaves, rum, sugar and molasses between the New World, Africa and the West Indies. |
| Tariff | Taxes on imported goods |
| Middle Passage | Middle leg of the Triangular trade that brought slaves from Africa to the New World |
| Indentured serant | Someone who works without pay in exchange for something |
| Tolerance | Acceptance of different opinions |
| Persecution | Mistreatment |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia Assembly - representative government |
| Mayflower Compact | Document that helped establish the practice of government |
| Parliament | England's chief law-making body |
| Smuggle | To get goods illegally |
| Boycott | Refusal to buy goods |
| Petition | A formal document for a request |
| Blockade | To cut off an area from having movement of people, goods or trade |
| Sons of Liberty | A secret society of Patriots formed to oppose British policies |
| Daughters of Liberty | Organiziation of colonial women formed to protest British policies. |
| Repeal | To take back or cancel. |
| Loyalist | An American who supported the British |
| Patriot | An American who sided with the rebels (13 colonies) |
| Battle at Bunker Hill | First battle of the Revolutionary War - British won. |
| Battle at Trenton | Washington planned a surprise attack on Christmas day. He and his troops crossed the Deleware River |
| Battle at Saratoga | TURNING POINT of the war. France decided to become an ally to the Patriots and they gained momentum |
| Winter at Valley Forgue | Continental Army spent a cold, hopeless winter in 1777-1778. |
| Battle of Yorktown | Last battle of the Revolutionary War. Britain surrendered after General Cornwallis was surrounded. |
| Benedict Arnold | An American general who betrayed the British - a TRAITOR |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote Common Sense |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army |
| Charles Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown. |
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