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23 Cards in this Set
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Adam Smith |
Scottish economist of the 18th century who argued that competition and a free market would have served Britain better than its mercantilist colonial policies. He wrote the landmark "The Wealth of Nations" (1776). |
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Nathaniel Bacon |
Frustrated by Indian attacks on the Virginia frontier and patronage in the colony's government, he led a calamitous armed rebellion in 1675-76 that included the massacre of Indians and the burning of Jamestown. |
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King Phillip (Metacomet) |
Wampanoag chief who led a major Indian uprising against New England colonists in 1675 that left hundreds dead, destroyed villages, and disrupted the region's economy. |
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Increase Mather |
Influential Congregationalist minister and president of Harvard University in late 17th-century Massachusetts Bay, he urged caution and restraint during Salem witch hysteria. |
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Cotton Mather |
Multi-talented son of prominent Massachusetts Bay religious leader, he was a minister, doctor, and author of 400 books, including one that argued the validity of "spectral evidence," such as that used at the Salem witch trials. |
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Jacob Leisler |
A German immigrant with Dutch ties, he seized New York City with a small army in 1689 after hearing of England's Glorious Revolution, was declared a rebel, tried, and executed. |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
An armed rebellion in Virginia (1675-1676) led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colony's royal governor, Sir William Berkely. |
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Dominion of New England |
Incorporation of the New England colonies under a single appointed royal governor that lasted from 1686-1689. |
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Enumerated Goods |
Raw materials, such as tobacco, sugar, and rice, that were produced in the British colonies and under the Navigation Acts had to be shipped only to England or its colonies. |
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Glorious Revolution |
Replacement of James II by William III and Mary II as English monarchs in 1688, marking the beginning of constitutional monarchy in Britan. |
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Indentured Servants |
Persons who agreed to serve a master for a set number of years in exchange for the cost of transport to America. Indentured servitude was the dominant form of labor in the Chesapeake colonies before slavery. |
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Mercantilism |
This assumed that the supply of wealth was fixed. To increase its wealth, a nation needed to export more goods than it imported. Favorable trade and protective economic policies and colonial possessions rich in raw materials were important in achieving this balance. |
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Navigation Acts |
Commercial restrictions that regulated colonial commerce to favor England's accumulation of wealth. |
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Royal African Company |
Slaving company created to meet colonial planters' demands for black laborers. |
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Spectral Evidence |
In the Salem witch trials, the court allowed reports of dreams and visions in which the accused appeared as the devil's agent to be introduced as testimony. The accused had no defence against this kind of "evidence." When the judges later disallowed this testimony, the executions for witchcraft ended. |
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Yeomen |
Southern small landholders who owned no slaves, and who lived primarily in the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark mountains. |
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1660 |
Parliament passes First Navigation Act |
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1663 |
Parliament passes Second Navigation Act |
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1675 |
King Phillip's War devestates New England |
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1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion erupts in Virginia |
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1684 |
Massachusetts Bay Colony charter revoked |
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1688 |
James II deposed in Glorious Revolution |
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1692 |
Salem Village puts "witches" on trial. |