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| 7264057709 | Elect | Some people were born to find salvation through a conversion experience that revealed Gods will. | 0 | |
| 7264057710 | Encomienda | What the Spanish operated under, by which Spaniards who were given land in conquered areas of the New World were obligated to care for the natives there. | 1 | |
| 7264057711 | The Church of England | Had been founded in 1534 by king Henry VIII after the Roman Catholic Church under pope clement did not allow him to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon | 2 | |
| 7264763745 | Puritans | Influenced by the teachings of John Calvin, a sect was formed that sought to purify the Anglican Church by ridding it of the regalia and ceremony it still had in common with Roman Catholicism. | 3 | |
| 7264763746 | New England confederation | In 1643 formed by the New England colonies provided for the collective security of its member settlements | 4 | |
| 7264992622 | Separatists | Wanted to form a new church that would be independent of the monarchy. | 5 | |
| 7264992623 | Pilgrims | Puritan separatists who wished to form a new church. Persecuted in England, they sought a life elsewhere, agreeing to go to the New World with their first seven years working for the Virginia company. | 6 | |
| 7264992624 | Non separatists | Wanted to reform the Anglican Church from within | 7 | |
| 7289131446 | Quakers | believed no clergy was necessary for one to experience God and Jesus Christ (one's "inner light") was also banished. | 8 | |
| 7289131447 | Antinomianism | a belief that since God's chosen people are predestined for Heaven they do not need to obey God's or man's laws. | 9 | |
| 7289131448 | Plantation system | developed because of the needs connected with Tobacco farming. | 10 | |
| 7289131449 | Headright system | this system was designed to attract new immigrants to work the land by granting 50 acres of land to any white individual willing to pay his passage from England. | 11 | |
| 7289131450 | Proprietary colonies ( Maryland) | In 1634, established by King Charles in order to have more control over its administration and protect his influence in the Chesapeake region. | 12 | |
| 7289131451 | Indentured servants | the person whose passage had been paid was obliged to work in servitude, usually for seven years under a contract called an indenture. | 13 | |
| 7289131452 | New light preachers | preachers like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards who told people to pray for salvation or face fire and brimstone. Leading to the birth of the Baptist and Methodist sects, and overrode the old intellectual faiths with a new emotionalism. | 14 | |
| 7289131453 | Stratification | In New England and the South, the gap between rich and poor also widened as new affluent settlers arrived and the South's plantation economy continued to grow. In comparison, the Middle Colonies were more diverse and tolerant and less socially rigid. | 15 | |
| 7289131454 | Mercantilism | the concept that colonies exist only to supply raw materials and a market to the mother country. | 16 | |
| 7289131455 | "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" | a sermon by Jonathan Edwards that started the New Light Preachers movement in 1734. | 17 | |
| 7289131456 | Salutary neglect | From 1642-1651 England was preoccupied with a civil war, leading to the colonies becoming increasingly self-reliant, and the distance between the ideologies of the mother country and her colonies widened. | 18 | |
| 7289131457 | Writs of assistance | allowed customs officials to search homes, businesses, and warehouses for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge. | 19 | |
| 7289131458 | John calvin | French born intellectual who elaborated on some of Luther's ideas but did not agree with others. In Calvin's view, one could not get into heaven through good deeds and faith alone. | 20 | |
| 7289131459 | John smith | Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He became a dominate force in the eventual success of Jamestown and the establishment of its legacy as the first permanent English settlement in North America. | 21 | |
| 7289131460 | Martin Luther | a German monk who led protests that started the Protestant reformation. | 22 | |
| 7289131461 | John Winthrop | who was also a puritan minister led non separatists settlers that led the Great Migration to the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1630s. | 23 | |
| 7289131462 | Anne Hutchinson | preached antinomianism and was banished for her beliefs and for holding prayer meetings. | 24 | |
| 7289131463 | Roger Williams | a minister from Salem who advocated a complete separation of church and state, believed that the biddings of conscience stood above civil or church laws. He also held that colonists had no right to live on lands unlawfully taken from Native Americans. | 25 | |
| 7289131464 | John Rolfe | under his leadership tobacco farming was introduced to the Chesapeake Bay area and soon became the area's top cash crop. | 26 | |
| 7289131465 | Lord Baltimore | In 1634 King Charles I divided Virginia colony and gave one part to him. He was directed to create a profitable colony that would also provide haven for Catholics, but he passed away before this could have been done. | 27 | |
| 7289131466 | Sir William Berkeley | governor of the Virginia colony, further angered indentured farmers by maintaining good relations with the native tribes while failing to protect the poor Virginians. | 28 | |
| 7289131467 | Nathaniel Bacon | a young member of the House of Burgesses led a citizen's militia that raided native villages, slaughtered the inhabitants, defeated Berkley's forces, and set fire to Jamestown. | 29 | |
| 7289131468 | William and Mary | In 1688 replaced James II during England's "Glorious Revolution". | 30 | |
| 7289131469 | George Whitefield | who helped found Methodism in America, was perhaps one of the most famous preachers at the time of the New Light | 31 | |
| 7289131470 | Jonathan Edwards | famous for the sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God," started the New Light movement in 1734 | 32 | |
| 7289131471 | Benjamin Franklin | a Pennsylvania newspaperman devised the Albany Plan of Union. | 33 | |
| 7289131472 | John Locke | British philosopher which disputed the absolute and divine rights of kings and asserted that sovereignty was derived from the will of the governed; accordingly, the governed should rebel against governments that fail to protect the natural rights of life, liberty, and of life. | 34 | |
| 7289131473 | William Pitt | under the British Prime Minister, the British devoted resources to conquering French Canada, taking Quebec in 1759 and Montreal in 1760. | 35 | |
| 7289131474 | Son and daughters of liberty | intimidated tax collectors and burned stamp warehouses. | 36 | |
| 7289131475 | Daniel Shays | protested oppressive taxes, debtors prison, and lack of valuable currency by demanding restitution and tax relief | 37 | |
| 7289131476 | Protestant reformation | a schism from the Roman Catholic church initiated by Martin Luther and continued by John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other early protestant Reformers. | 38 | |
| 7289131477 | Great Migration | led by John Winthrop to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | 39 | |
| 7289131478 | Holy Experiment | the colony's stockholders agreed to let the emigrating members establish their government in America instead of England. | 40 | |
| 7289131479 | Bacons Rebellion | was finally created after its leader died dysentery, but it had spotlighted social divisions, colonial resistance, and, especially, the difficulty of controlling former indentured servants | 41 | |
| 7289131480 | Pueblo Revolt | This occurred in the response to the flogging of an influential Hopi who had opposed colonial rule. The Indians killed over 400 Spaniards, destroyed all the buildings they had erected, and took over the governor's residence. | 42 | |
| 7289131481 | Glorious Revolution | In the late 1600s during which James II, whose repressive measures against the Puritans and efforts to limit colonial self-governance had not endeared him to the colonists. | 43 | |
| 7289131482 | Triangular trade | through which New England goods were exchanged with the Caribbean for molasses, which was used to make rum, which was then traded for slaves in Africa. | 44 | |
| 7289131483 | Great Awakening | During the mid-1700s, a wave of preachers who delivered sermons emphasizing personal inspiration and emotional connection to God held large revival meetings in tents on the outskirts of towns, sparking the Great Awakening. | 45 | |
| 7289131484 | French Indian war | a New World conflict sparked by European territorial ambitions, led to outbreak of Europe's Seven Years' War in 1756 at the same time as it encouraged the British colonies to organize in a manner that would one day support a revolt against the motherland. | 46 | |
| 7289131485 | Pontiacs rebellion | Ottowan chief Pontiac attacked many colonial settlements, doing much damage. | 47 | |
| 7289131486 | Stamp Act congress | authorized by Prime Minister George Grenville to tax directly all paper used in the colonies and meant to raise revenues to build a new colonial army, went into effect in 1765, colonists were enraged. | 48 | |
| 7289131487 | Boston massacre | In 1770, one angry crowd that threw rocks at the custom house provoked guards to fire on the protestors, killing some and injuring others. | 49 | |
| 7289131488 | Boston tea party | colonists dressed as Native Americans to board a ship in Boston harbor and dump its cargo of tea overboard because they were fed up of the passage of the innocuous Tea Act. | 50 | |
| 7289131489 | First continental congress | In September 1774, 12 of the 13 colonies sent reprentatives to them, who sent a Declaration of Rights and Grievances to the king. The Congress also created the Association, which called for the creation of boycott committees. | 51 | |
| 7289131490 | Second continental congress | met in May of 1775, with representatives from all 13 colonies in attendance. The new England colonies were most radical and many called for Independence, while the Middle colonies wanted to reopen negotiations with Britain | 52 | |
| 7289131491 | Roanoke | also known as the lost colony, was established in 1585 on Roanoke island in what is today's North Carolina. | 53 | |
| 7289131492 | Virginia company | set up to establish a permanent colony in America and authorized by Captain John smith. | 54 | |
| 7289131493 | Salem | on the north coast of Massachusetts, its most famous for its 1692 with trials. | 55 | |
| 7289131494 | Jamestown | In the colony of Virginia it was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. | 56 | |
| 7289131495 | Treaty of toresdillas | agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th century voyagers. | 57 | |
| 7289131496 | Mayflower compact | an agreement by which they agreed to administer their colony by means of a secular body. | 58 | |
| 7289131497 | Halfway covenant | of 1662, allowed partial members who had been baptized but couldn't prove conversion to baptize their children. | 59 | |
| 7289131498 | Dominion of New England | brought the New England colonies under stricter control. | 60 | |
| 7289131499 | Act of Toleration | in 1649, this act which guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians, also stipulated that anyone who denied Christ's divinity should be put to death. | 61 | |
| 7289131500 | Fundamental orders | In 1639, Connecticut settlers drafted a sort of constitution, which called for the power of government to be drawn from the governed. | 62 | |
| 7289131501 | Albany plan of union | called for a confederation of colonies able to defend themselves from European and Native American attackers. | 63 | |
| 7289131502 | Peace of Paris | signed in 1763, England gained French Canada, and Spanish Florida and became North America's dominant power. | 64 | |
| 7289131503 | Proclamation of 1763 | pledged that American colonists would not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Angered by this, most colonists ignored it. | 65 | |
| 7289131504 | Sugar acts | of 1764, which taxed sweeteners, particularly the molasses the colonies used when defying British rules to make and trade in rum. | 66 | |
| 7289131505 | Quatering acts | required colonists to give room and board to British soldiers. | 67 | |
| 7289131506 | Declatory acts | maintained the crown's right to impose future taxes on the colonies. | 68 | |
| 7289131507 | Townshend Acts | passed in 1767, a series of acts which, among other revenue-raising schemes, placed duties on imports- an "external tax". | 69 | |
| 7289131508 | Tea Acts | forced colonists to buy East India Company Tea at bargain prices to bail out the company. | 70 | |
| 7289131509 | Massachusetts circular letter | distributed throughout the colonies, Samuel Adams argued that there was no difference between external and internal taxes. This sparked new boycotts of British goods, leading to the repeal of the Townshend Acts. | 71 | |
| 7289131510 | Coercive acts | In order to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party, these closed Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for; revoked the charter of Massachusetts and put the colony under control of the crown | 72 | |
| 7289131511 | Quebec act | In 1774, allowed the former French region to be self-sufficient and expanded its borders, depriving Ohio River Valley colonists of potential lands. | 73 | |
| 7289131512 | Intolerable acts | The colonists were particularly angered that the act let Quebecers practice Catholicism freely, and they named all these Intolerable Acts. | 74 | |
| 7289131513 | Declaration of rights and grievances | sent to the king by the first Continental Congress, urging him to correct wrongs done to the colonies while acknowledging Parliaments right to regulate commerce. | 75 | |
| 7289131514 | Olive Branch petition | reasserted colonial loyalty to the crown and asked the king to intervene with parliament on behalf of the colonies. | 76 | |
| 7289131515 | Common sense | a pamphlet published using John Locke's natural rights philosophy to support the idea of rebellion against British oppression because common sense could not allow the continuation of these injustices. | 77 | |
| 7289131516 | Northwest ordinance of 1787 | permitted territories to apply for statehood when populated by at least 60,000 settlers and specified that, if Congress granted statehood to a region, the new state would have the same status as older states. It also banned slavery north of the Ohio River. | 78 |
