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38 Cards in this Set
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Witherspoon Family
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-Great Britian to South Carolina
- feared they would be killed by Indians, become lost in the woods, or be bitten by snakes |
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New England families
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-successfully replicated in america a trad. social order they had known in England
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Marriages and Dowry
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-single life frowned upon and wouldnt work
-dowry: apporx. one-half what the bridegroom ofdered. women often contributed money or household goods |
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Kinship network benefits
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-intermarried families
-dominated local politics and economic affairs for several generations |
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Education and creation of schools
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-primarily a family responsibility(to read and write)
-legislature ordered towns containig atleast 15 familes to open elem. schools -Harvard ( 1st institiution of higher learning) |
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Congregational churhes
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-women dominated churches
- minister said "far more godly women" than men |
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Half-way Convenant
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-grandchildren of persons in full communion to be bapatized even though their parents could not demonstrate conversion
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Women in New England
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-worked on family farms
-cooking,washing, clothe making, dairying, & gardening -sold poultry - joined churches in a greater number than men |
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Womens rights over property, marriage dissolution grounds
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-no control over property
-divorce was extremely diff. to obtain -if with irresponsible spouse ahd little recourse but to run away or accept the unhappy situation |
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Social Hierarchy in New England
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-both regions settlers spoke English,accepted Protestantism, and gave allegiance to one crown
-looked nothing alike |
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Families in Cheasapeake colonies
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-young unmarried servants
-youths cut off from the security of traditional kin relations -high death rate |
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Chesapeake women
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-in great demand because of death rate
-hightened the womens power in the marriage market -child birth was dangerous |
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Chesapeake Bay Staple
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-people who survived grew what tobacco they could
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Freemen
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-formed largest class in chesapeake society
-traveled to the new world ar indentured servants -most lived on the edge of poverty |
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Indentured servants and labor contracts
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-below freeman
-recieved decent food and clothes -most lived till end of contracts |
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Slavery
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-1st slaves in US in Virgina 1619 (cargo stolen from a Dutch trader)
-total : 11 million blacks -wanted young males |
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Reason to enslave the "heathens"
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-English associated blacks with heathen religion, barbarous behavior, sexual promiscuity and all around evil
-racist perspective made enslaving seem unobjectional |
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Royal African Company 1672
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-made to meet the colonial planters demands for black laborers
-" the strongest and most effective of all European companies formed exckusivelt for thr African trade" |
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Slave Experience Variation
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-South : more populated; larger crops ;isolated; contact with whites is limited
-North : smaller pop.; contact with white frequently ; limited assoc. with other blacks |
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Creation of African American
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- not African nor european traditions = African American
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Stonos Uprising 1739
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-150 south carolina blacks uprose
-seized guns& ammunition -murdered several white planters -marching toward promised freedom (Florida) -local militia stopped them |
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Commercial Empire in America
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-private companies and aristocratic proprietors had created these societes some for profit and others for religious sanctuary
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Response to threat to natural resources of America
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-Mercantilism
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Navagation Act 1660
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-attempted to eliminate the Dutch
-made bt America 75% English -certain goods from England could only be given to English colonies or ports |
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Staple Act 1663
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-nothing could be imported into America unless it had first been transshipped through England, a process that greatly added to the price ultimately paid by colonial consumers
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Act of 1696 & Act of 1673
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1696
-last major piece of imperial legislation -expanded the american customs service and set up vice-admiralty courts in the colonists 1673( Navigation Act) -plantation duty, a sum of money equal to normal English customs duties to be collected on enumerated products at the various colonial ports |
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Bacons Rebellion 1676
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-denied fur licences
-given bad land -wanted more -burned Jamestown to the ground |
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Edward Randolph and the Bay colony
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-demanded full compliance with the Navigation acts
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Salem Witch Trials
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-reports of dreams and visions in which the accused appeared at the devils agent
-girls were accusing |
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The Glorious Revolution of 1688
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-overthrow of King James II of England by English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadholders ( William of Orange)
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Sir Edmund Andros
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-an english colonial administrator in North America
-governer of the Dominion of New England during of it 3 year existence |
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Transportation Act 1718
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-convicts taken to US from Britian
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Benjamin Franklin
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-investigation of electricity
-lightning rod -stove |
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Great Awakening
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-protestant
-religious revivals |
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Albany Plan 1754
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-important proposal to create a unified government
-suggested by Benjamin Franklim |
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French and Indian War
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-against Europeans
- " Seven Years War" -France ceded its territory east of the mississipi to G.B |
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NA in 1800
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-went with whoever gave protection
-five strongest ( Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Shawnee) |
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Wars
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- 1689 - King Williams War
- 1702-13 - War of Spanish Succession ( Queen Anne) - King Georges War - Seven Years War |