Foy Ch. 3 Vocab
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| Jamestown | The first colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia.
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| indentured servants | A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
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| Bacon's Rebellion | A 1676 attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia.
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| Toleration Act of 1649 | A Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America.
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| slave codes | Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves.
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| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England.
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| Pilgrims | Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600's to settle in the Americas.
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| immigrants | People who move to another country after leaving their homeland.
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| Mayflower Compact | A 1620 document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government.
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| Quakers | Society of Friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640's in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people.
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| staple crops | Crops that are continuously in demand.
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| town meeting | A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England.
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| English Bill of Rights | A 1689 shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament.
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| triangular trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa.
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| Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
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| Great Awakening | A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's.
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| Enlightenment | The Age of Reason; movement that began in Europe in the 1700's as people began examining the natural world, society and government.
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| Committees of Correspondence | Committee's created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information.
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| Stamp Act of 1765 | A law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents.
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| Boston Massacre | A 1770 incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist, killing five people
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| Tea Act | A 1778 law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party.
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| Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
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| Intolerable Acts | 1774 laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.
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