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7402025131ProprietorshipA colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group, who then set up a form of government largely independent from royal control. Four example Lord Baltimore in Maryland0
7402025132QuakersReligious group that believed that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light". They were religiously tolerant and progressive. They don't think that there's a difference between a gentleman and a laborer. They condemned extravagance. Pennsylvania is the refuge, they are persecuted in England because they refused to serve the military or pay taxes.they said to restore Christianity in its early simple spirituality. But they reject the Puritans Calvinistic doctrines1
7402025133Navigation ActsEnglish laws that required certain colonial goods be shipped with English ships, men, and merchants.2
7402025134Dominion of New EnglandA royal province created by King James II that made most of the northeastern colonies into one large colony. Connecticut and Rhode Island merge with the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth. The governor was sir Edmund Andros3
7402025135Glorious RevolutionA bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.4
7402025136constitutional monarchyA monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution. Mary and Williams style of ruling5
7402025137Second Hundred Years' WarAn era of warfare from 1619 to 1815 in which England fought in seven major wars. It began with the war of league of Augsburg and lasted till the defeat of Napoleon in Waterloo in 18156
7402025138tribalizationThe adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states. Tribes, to stay alive, were forced to take in more outside members7
7402025139Covenant ChainThe alliance of the Iroquois, first with the colony of New York, then with the British Empire and its other colonies.8
7402025140South Atlantic SystemA new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice, and other tropical products for an international market. Its plantation societies were ruled by Europeans and worked on by enslaved Africans.9
7402025141Middle PassageThe brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.10
7402025142Stono RebellionThe largest Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in which a group of slaves armed themselves, plundered six plantations, and killed more than twenty colonists. This uprising was quickly suppressed.11
7402025143gentilityA refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.12
7402025144salutary neglectBritish colonial policy that declared it would relax their supervision of internal colonial affairs. This led to the rise of self-government in North America.13
7402025145patronageThe power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters.14
7402025146land banksAn institution that printed paper money and lent it to farmers, taking a lien on their land to ensure repayment.15
7402025147William PennFounder of Pennsylvania who founded the colony as a safe haven for Quakers and worked alongside local Indians 1681 King Charles the second bestowed him Pennsylvania as payment for a large debt owed to his father Was imprisoned for two years in England for practicing his belief 1682 arrange a public treaty with the Delaware Indians to purchase the land that Philadelphia and the surrounding settlements well soon occupy16
7402025148Edmund AndrosEnglish colonial governor of the Dominion of New England for three years. James ordered him to abolish the existing legislative assemblies In Massachusetts he band town meetings17
7402025149William of OrangeDutch prince who was invited by English Protestants and Whigs to overthrow King James II in the Glorious Revolution. Married to Mary Stuart18
7402025150John LockePolitical philosopher that argued for individuals to have access to "natural rights". Political philosopher who parliament relied on to justify their coop = glorious revolution19
7402025151Jacob LeislerDutchman who led a rebellion against the Dominion of New England who was soon suppressed, hanged, and decapitated when Henry slaughter was put as governor in 169120
7402025152William Byrd IISon of a successful planter-merchant who was rejected in England for being too "colonial".21
7402025153Robert WalpoleWhig leader who developed the policy of salutary neglect and used patronage to create a strong Court Party.22

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