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Salutary Neglect- refers to the unofficial and long lasting 17th and 18th century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary law, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.
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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the new world.
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It was the first legislative assembly in the new world.
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It was the first set of rules and laws established in the new world that created a direct democracy.
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The pilgrims, colonial puritans who came here on a religious journey, settled on Plymouth rock, Massachussetts on this date.
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The pilgrims moved to Connecticut and wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first constitution of the new world.
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Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion and burned down the Jamestown settlement due to lack of the colonist's involvment in the government.
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The peaceful transfer of power from the king to his daughter, showing that parliament had more power than the king.
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Laws passed by parliament that guarantee rights to individuals such as life, liberty, and property.
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This was when 19 women were accused of witchcraft and killed in cruel ways, leading to the 1st Great awakening, or the religious revolution.
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Newspaper reporter John Peter Zenger is tried for criticizing the royal governor, but is not convicted because everything we wrote is true.
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Mercantilism- the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
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It was the first plan to bring colonists together, but it was never put into action.
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The war that caused the British to go into extreme debt, causing them to tax the colonists, ending salutary neglect.
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The law stating that colonists were not allowed to move west of the Appalachain mountains, because the government didn't want to pay to protect them from the Indians.
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The act that forced colonists to house British soldiers.
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A tax placed on all products printed on paper that was boycotted and repealed.
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States that parliament has the right to control and make decisions for the colonies.
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A series of laws passed that taxed the colonists to pay for the governments official's salaries.
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British soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd of colonists, killing 5. This was the first violent act of the revolution.
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Gave the East India company a monopoly on tea, which caused the colonists to block ships and the Boston Tea party.
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A protest of British taxes by the "Sons of Liberty", a group of colonists.
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When the colonies came together to oppose and challenge the British's rule over them.
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Series of acts that restricted the colonists and closed the Boston Harbor.
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A document sent to the king complaining about the colonists rights being restricted, which angered the king and caused the battles of Lexington and Concord.
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These battles were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
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The colonists couldn't decide whether or not to seek independence from Britain. They finally decided to write the Declaration of Independence.
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A book about how it is common sense for the colonists to split from Britain and become independent.
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The document was approved by the colonial government, or the members of the 2nd continental congress.
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Makes the 2nd continental congress officially our government and gives them power, and is the first constitution of the United States of America.
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The treaty that marked the end of the Revolutionary War.