Midterm MEGA Review pt. 1/2
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Midterm MEGA Review pt. 1/2
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Jamestown
who: The Virginia Co.
where: Virginia
Why: looking for gold
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Plymouth
Who: Puritans
Where: Plymouth, Massachusetts
Why: Religious freedom
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Catholics
Who: Sir Baltimore
Where: Maryland
Why: Religious freedom
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William Penn
Who: Quakers/William Penn
Where: Pennsylvania
Why: Religious freedom
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Debtors (people who owe money)
Who: Debtors
Where: Georgia
Why: Didn't want to go to debtor's prison and it was a buffer between Spanish Florida and the colonies
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New England
Climate: cold; bad for agriculture
Economy: fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, lumber, little farming, trading
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Middle Colonies
Climate: short winters, long growing season
Economy: farming (grain and bread), big cities
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Southern Colonies
Climate: year-round growing season
Economy: Plantation farming of cash crops
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Salutary Neglect
The period of time when Britain neglected the colonies. The colonies took care of themselves
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Mercantilism
The economic system whereby the colonies give raw resources to the mother country and the mother country gives colonies finished goods
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Triangular Trade
The trade routes by sea between Europe, The Americas, and Africa
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Free Enterprise
An economic system where businesses are allowed to compete with each other with little government regulation
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Plantation Farming
Farming cash crops on a large scale. Plantations relied on slave labor and were found in the Southern colonies
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Great Awakening
A time in 1720 of increased religious revival in the Americas
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Magna Carta
1215
Granted rights to noblemen and freemen
-they couldn't be taxed
-jury of their peers
-could not have their property seized
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English Bill of Rights
1689
Granted:
-Trial by jury
-Protection against cruel and unusual punishment
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Mayflower Compact
1620
-1st written example of self-government in the Americas
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Virginia House of Burgesses
1619
"an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America"
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Multiple Choice
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French and Indian War
-French troops and colonial militia want the Ohio River Valley
-They end up clashing and fighting
-Started the French and Indian War
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Payback
The English spent lots of money fighting (and winning) the French and Indian War
--> Americans taxed to pay the bill
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Multiple Choice
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Taxation without (real) Representation
Colonists had not been consulted if they were willing to be taxed.
-"No taxation without representation!"
-Sons of Liberty--> organize protests
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The Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty dump $1million worth of tea into Boston Harbor
-England has had enough
-England passed the Intolerable Acts:
-shut down Boston Harbor until $ is paid back
-England took over Boston
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The Boston Massacre
Sons of Liberty have a hand to play in this
-British troops fire on American colonists
-less than 10 colonists killed
-used as propaganda against British occupation
-British troops not found guilty (defended in court by John Adams)
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