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Period: Aug 19, 1500 to
Mercantilism
An economic system that basically stated that you needed to export more than you import, so you made more than you spent. -
Jamestown
The fist permanent English settlement in "The New World". It was not very successful until tobcacco was grown. -
House of Burgesses
The first legislative assembly in the American Colonies. They met for the first time in a church at Jamestown. -
Mayflower Compact
The Puritans laws, that established the importance of the self-governing principle of majority rule. -
Fundamental Orders of Connectict
This was the first writen constitution in North America, written by puritan clergymen. -
Triangular Trade
It endcates trade among three regions. Triangular trade was between Europe, Africa, and America. -
Maryland Toleration Act
This was passed to mandate religious toleration for Trinitarian Christians. -
Navigation Acts
A series of laws that didn't allow the use of forign ships for trade for England and the American colonies. -
John Peter Zenger
He was an American German journalist that wrote The New York Weekly Journal. He was accused of libel and went to trial, ehic was an important step toward the American colonists freedom. -
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a revitalization of religioys piety that swept throught the American colonies. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was also named the seven years war. It was a conflict between Austria, England, France, Great Britian, Prussia, and Sweden. The war played out in Europe, India, and North America. -
Alany Plan of Union
This was a proposal to make a unified government for the American colonies. This was suggested by Benjaman Franklin. -
Proclamation of 1763
A law that stated the colonists could not settle West of the Appalachian Mountians. -
Stamp Act
England's latest attempt to tax the colonists by putting a direct tax on a variety of goods. -
Boston Massacre
This was the killing of 5 colonists by British redcoats beacuse of a riot in the colonies on that night. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of punitive laws passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party.They were deigned to punish the Massachusetts colonists. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was deigned to save the East India Company, which was going down financially and was burdened with eighteen million poundes of unsold tea. -
Quartering Act
Parliament passes an act outlining the locations and conditions in which the British redcoats are to be housed and taken care of. -
Lexington & Concord
Paul Revere rode from the Massachsetts Bay to Lexington to warn the colonists that the British resd coats were coming that direction. Both Lexington and Concord were battles between a group of armed angry colonists trying to protect their town and highly trained British red coats with orders to fulfill. -
Olive Branch Petition
A committee of colonists write a letter to the king of England asking to end the fighting, but the king refuses to even lok at the letter. -
Common Sense
This is a famous pamplet, written by Thomas Paine, that inspired the colonies to fight for independence and declare it. -
Declaration of Independence
It was a written version of declaring independece of the 13 colonies.
