Social Studies Ch. 3
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| Charter | A document signed by the king that granted his subjects the right to leave and establish elsewhere
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| Colony | Groups of citizens who leave a country to settle elsewhere
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| Joint Stock Company | Expeditions that were privately funded, investors shared costs, profits, and losses
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| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in U. S.
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| John Smith | 1608, elected president of counsil
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| Pocahantas | Ally of the colonizers
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| Cash Crop | Crops that are for trading and selling for a large profit
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| Headright System | Stated each head of the family had the right to up to 1,000 acres of land
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| Indentured Servant | People who agreed to work the plantation for 5-7 years in exchange for a passage to America
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| Slave Code | Strict codes established to prevent uprisings
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| Bacon's Rebellion | An uprising in Virginia led by Nathanal Bacon that led to the burning of Jamestown
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| Lord Baltimore | Established Maryland in 1634
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| Toleration Act | First formal declaration of religous freedom
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| Worthy Poor | People in debt
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| Plantation | Large land grants
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| Anglican Church | A church started by King Henry VIII also known as the Church of England
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| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
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| Separitists | English protestants who wanted to separate from the Church of England, formed their own churches, and cut all ties with the Church of England
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| Pilgrims | People who left ehir country of birth to live in another country
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| William Bradford | A Pilgrim leader who sailed with the group
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| Mayflower | One of the Pilgrims ships who left England with more than 100 men, women, and children aboard
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| Mayflower Compact | A legal contract in which the male passengers on the Mayflower agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good.
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| Plymouth Rock | Where the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts
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| Squanto | A patuxet Indian who spoke some English, taught the Pilgrims how to fertilize soil, and help establish relationships with the Wampanoag Indians
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| Great Migration | Many thousands of men, women, and children left England because of economic, political, and religuos problems
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| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Where the Pilgrims landed and founded
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| John Winthrop | Leader of Mass. Bay Co. who led Puritan colonists to Mass. to establish an ideal Christian community
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| Thomas Hooker | He and his followers left Mass. to help found Connecticut
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| Roger Williams | A minister who didn't agree with the leadership of Mass. and separated his church from New England congregations
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| New England Primer | A book used by school children which had characters from the Blible
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| Harvard | John Harvard and the General Court founded Harvard College and taught higher education
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| Breadbasket | Nickname for middle colonies because of how much wheat and grain they grew
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| New Netherlands | Founded as a Dutch colony
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| New Amsterdan | Manhattan Island founded by Peter Minuit
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| Duke of York | Named New York after him (James Stuart)
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| William Penn | Early Quaker and founded Pennsulvania
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| Quakers | Pacifists who had no where to practice religion, Pennsylvania= safe haven
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| City of Brotherly Love | Philadelphia, capital of Pennsylvania, safe haven for Quakers, self governed
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| Privy Coynsil | King's advisers
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| Governor | Leader of colony
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| Proprietary Colony | Colonists vote for governor
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| Royal Colony | King chooses the governor
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| House fo Burgesses | First elected Body
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| Town Meeting | Where colonists gathered to discuss issues and influence dicisions
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| Zenger Case | Arrested for libel against the governor but was found not guilty
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| Mercantilism | A theory that a nation's weath is tied to its balance of trade
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| Import | Goods go in
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| Export | Goods go out
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| Navigation Acts | Colonies can't trade with other countries other than England
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| Great Awakening | Scientific Revolution in Europe, used logic and reason
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| Revivals | Made stars of traveling preachers
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| Fur Trade Industry | Indians recieved goods and colonists recieved furs they can't get in England
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| Ft. Necessity | Camp George Washington had to set up to have a little protection from the English
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| William Pitt | New British Prime Minister
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| 7 Years War | What the Europeans called the French and Indian War
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| Battle of Quebec | Turning point in America
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| General James Wolfe | Captured French settlement
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| Treaty of Paris | Ends war
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| Pontiac's Rebellian | Destroyed 8 British forts and resisted colonial migration west of Appellation Mountains
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| Proclamation of 1763 | Banned settlements west of Appalations
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| Sugar Act | First tax on imported goods containing sugar
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| Samuel Adams | Founded 'Committee of Correspondence'
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| "No taxation without representation" | Britian had no representation to tax them
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| Boycott | To prevent dealings with
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| Stamp Act | Required colonists to pay tax for an official seal "stamp" when purchasing paper items
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| Sons of Liberty | Organization to pretest the collection of taxes through boycott and violence
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| Townshend Acts | Tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
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| Writs of Assistance | Gave tax collectors greater ability to trade and enforce
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| Boston Massacre | Argument between the colonists and British soldiers (resulted in a few deaths)
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| Crispus Attucks | First martyr of the Revolution
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| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dumped barrels of tea into the water
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| Tea Act | Made tea cheaper, high demand, still earned profut
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| Intolerable Acts | Acts unified colonies kn protest of the throne
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| Quartering Act | Required colonies to provide the needs of British soldiers
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