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| 377686607 | Jamestown | single men lived here. Laws of primogeniture, looking for gold, indentured servants. Starving and saved by john smith | |
| 377686608 | first africans brought to virginia | Not slaves, but indentured servants, headright system, rights if englishmen means africans do not have the same rigts, settlers know most will die before their five to seven years run out | |
| 377686609 | mayflower compact | 1620, va stock company, went north though suppost to go to va. All names sign so if caught all take blame. Got out of indentured servitude , This document was drafted in 1620 prior to settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It declared that the 41 males who signed it agreed to accept majority rule and participate in a government in the best interest of all members of the colony. This agreement set the precedent for later documents outlining commonwealth rule. | |
| 377686610 | Great migration if puritans | ma bay colony. John winthrop and city upon a hill, not separatists Plymouth. Purify but nit separate, merchants, middle class | |
| 377686611 | Rhode island | ounded by william rogers, puritan, hated taking kand away from the indians, bought the land, freedom of religion,fredom formjews | |
| 377686612 | Pennsylvania | 1681. Quaker, king owned williams father a debt, wants to get rid of william he is wierd and wealthy, advertise, most from germzny, british colony without british citizens, only problem was the non quakers made problems with indians, no immigration restrictions, blue laws means no plays or cards | |
| 377686613 | Salem witch trials | end of puritanism bc kess conversions, 20people executed in 1692 | |
| 377686614 | Georgia | james oglethorpe, 1732 buffer zone, debtors prison, experiment, opposed slavery but still had it, land between indians, and british and spanish florida and carolina | |
| 377686615 | Great awakening | 1734, jonathan edwards, hellfire and damnation, emotional, traveling preachers means more news between colonies, this was the first massive social movement in american history | |
| 377686616 | Bacons rebellion | Western virginia farmers revolted against the ezstern govt, common people fighting for a more responsive govt. 1676. Frustrated indentured servants. Berkeky trading with the indians. | |
| 378938104 | Leislers rebellion | Jacob ledna group of frustrated poor people and farmers who protested karge land grants favoring wealthy landowners and speculators that keft the common people with few opoertunities to gain land. | |
| 378938105 | Peter zenger case | jury found john innocent of libel against the ny governer. Equals freedom of press in future | |
| 378938106 | Albany plan for union | . Rejected by britian for giving colonists too much power. Rejected by colonists afraid it would tern into oppressive congress. a proposal by Benjamin Franklin early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes" during the French and Indian War | |
| 378938107 | Paxton boys | Western penn. Scots irish that rebelled againstgovt, saying govt not doing enough to protect them from native americans | |
| 378938108 | Carolina regulator movement | Poor people from west carolina rebel against givt | |
| 379832068 | french and indian war | Was a war fought by French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in1763. Historical Significance: established England as number one world power and began to gradually change attitudes of the colonists toward England for the worse. | |
| 379832069 | Proclamation of 1763 | issued by King goege III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. organize Britain's vast new North American empire, and to stabilize relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. forbade Americans from settling or buying land west of the Appalachians. | |
| 379832070 | stamp act | March 22, 1765 - British legislation passed as part of Prime Minister Grenville's revenue measures which required that all legal or official documents used in the colonies, such as wills, deeds and contracts, had to be written on special, stamped British paper. It was so unpopular in the colonies that it caused riots, and most of the stamped paper sent to the colonies from Britain was burned by angry mobs. Because of this opposition, and the decline in British imports caused by the non- importation movement, London merchants convinced Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act in 1766. | |
| 379832071 | declaratory act | In 1766, the English Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and at the same time signed the Declaratory Act. This document stated that Parliament had the right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." It is important in history because it stopped the violence and rebellions against the tax on stamps. Also, it restarted trade with England, which had temporarily stopped as a defiant reaction to the Stamp Act. | |
| 379832072 | Townshend acts | In 1767 "Champagne Charley" Townshend persuaded Parliament to pass the Townshend Acts. These acts put a light import duty on such things as glass, lead, paper, and tea. The acts met slight protest from the colonists, who found ways around the taxes such as buying smuggled tea. Due to its minute profits, the Townshend Acts were repealed in 1770, except for the tax on tea. The tax on tea was kept to keep alive the principle of Parliamentary taxation. | |
| 379832073 | Boston tea party | Boston patriots organized the Boston Tea Party to protest the 1773 Tea Act. In December 1773, Samuel Adams warned Boston residents of the consequences of the Tea Act. Boston was boycotting the tea in protest of the Tea Act and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard. They did so because they were afraid that Governor Hutchinson would secretly unload the tea because he owned a share in the cargo. | |
| 379832074 | first continental congress | The First Continental Congress convened on September 5, 1774, to protest the Intolerable Acts. The congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, voted for a boycott of British imports, and sent a petition to King George III, conceding to Parliament the power of regulation of commerce but stringently objecting to its arbitrary taxation and unfair judicial system. | |
| 379832075 | lexington and concord | General Gage sends 700 armed troops to Concord to gather all fire arms. So Paul Revere and others sound the alarm. Then a small amount of minute men interrcept British and Lexington. A stand off occurs until "the shot heard around the world". After succeeding at Lexington, the British continue to Concord. But at Concord there is no arsenal. The colonists suprise them on thier way back, causing a defecit to the British. | |
| 379832076 | second continental congress | Convened in May 1775, the Congress opposed the drastic move toward complete independence from Britain. In an effort to reach a reconciliation, the Congress offered peace under the conditions that there be a cease-fire in Boston, that the Coercive Acts be repealed, and that negotiations begin immediately. King George III rejected the petition. Made george washinton leader of contenentalm army | |
| 379832077 | Common sense | By thomas paine to pursuade congress to go all the way for independence. Tiny england cannot control big north america | |
| 379832078 | Declaration of independence | by jefferson, preamble for our natural rights, then grievences then formal declaration of independence | |
| 379832079 | Treaty of alliance | 1778, , agreement between the French and Americans in which the French support the Americans in the Revolutionary War, 1778- In the event France and England went to war French agreed to refuse truce or peace until independence of the US shall be assured by treaty or treaties that terminate the war, (1778) After the American victory at Saratoga, the France decides to recognize the US and an independent nation, and it laid groundwork for assistance to the American War effort. France became America's indispensable ally. 3: 1775-1825 | |
| 379832080 | battle of yorktown | The last major battle of the war. De grasse made a naval bloackade while washington took the army on land. Cornwallis surrenders | |
| 379832081 | Articles of confederation | this document, the nations first constitution, was adopted by the second continental congress in 1781during the revolution. the document was limited because states held most of the power, and congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage | |
| 379832082 | Peace of paris | ended revolutionary war. Franklin, adams and jay represented us. Britain recegnized us dorders east of the mississippi. North if florida, south of great lakes | |
| 379832083 | Northwest ordinance | The 1787 Northwest Ordinance defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. He ordinance forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established. The Northwest Ordinance was the most lasting measure of the national government under the Articles of Confederation |
