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| Servitude in which the slave [under a contract] works for his master until his debt is paid. |
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| Medical theory in which there are four basic substances [four humors]. which are in balance when someone is healthy. The humors are black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. |
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| Middle leg of the journey from Africa to the new world in which enslaved Africans were carried. |
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| Laws in America that defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. |
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| Territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of a sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crown’s overlordship. |
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| German immigrants who came to the New World |
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| First American ironworks company |
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| German painter of the 19th Century. |
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| Three legged passage of trade -- Africa/Europe/New World |
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| September 9, 1739—organized act of rebellion against slavery by the South Carolina slaves at the Stono River |
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| Member of the local government board of a New England town. |
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| Rights of a firstborn child (ie to inherit the estate) |
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| Series of hearings between February 1692 and May 1693 in which people were accused of witchcraft. |
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| Long literary works in which an author laments the state of society and its morals. |
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| Change in form of a word (typically the ending) |
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| Period of religious revival in America beginning in the 1730’s. |
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| Anglican cleric and Christian theologian who founded the Arminian Methodist movement (1 of the 4) |
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| Leader of the methodist movement (1 of the 4) |
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| Anglican itinerant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening (1 of the 4) |
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| American cleric and theologian known for extreme Calvinism in his preaching and writing (1 of the 4) |
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| Those who change as their religious denomination splits. |
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| Those who don’t change as their religious denomination splits. |
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| Time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority. |
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| Theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere. |
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| First multi-page newspaper published in the Americas—first edition published in 1690. Only one edition was printed; the paper was shut down by the government. |
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| Private elementary school [usually taught by a woman in her home] |
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| Oldest college in America—Cambridge, MA—founded in 1636 by the colonial MA legislature |
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| School founded in 1693 by a Royal Charter issued by William III and Mary II—second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. |
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| Oldest and most prestigious scientific society in Britain—formed by followers of Francis Bacon in 1662. |
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| Famous for his work with lighting, Poor Richard’s Almanac, Pennsylvania Gazette, etc. |
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| German-born American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in NYC. Owned the second newspaper in the city, “The New York Weekly Journal” |
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| Plan proposed by Ben Franklin at the Albany Congress in 1754. It was an attempt to form a union of colonies that would unite English colonists with mainland England to assist in defending the New World during the French and Indian War. The plan was unanimously voted for, yet it was reject by the colonies’ legislatures—it was never put into effect. |
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| 1756-1763; all major European powers of the period fought. The fighting that occurred in the Americas is known as the French and Indian War. |
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| Five [later six] Indian tribes Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca [later Tuscarora] |
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| First of the French and Indian War—War of the Grand Alliance—part of the Nine Years’ War—Fought between England, France, and their respective American Indian allies in the colonies of Canada, Acadia, and New England. |
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| Second in a series of four French and Indian Wars. It was the counterpart of Europe’s War of the Spanish Succession. France fought Great Britain; a number of Indian tribes and Spain (France’s ally) fought. |
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| Series of individual peace treaties signed in Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713. It helped end the War of the Spanish Succession [NOTE keep in mind that Queen Anne’s War was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession] |
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| 1740-1748; Part of the War of the Austrian Succession. ‘Twas the third of the four French and Indian Wars. |
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| In 1754, Washington lead an expedition to Fort Duquesne to drive out the French. He [and is army] was later overwhelmed at Fort Necessity by the French and Indians. |
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| Fort in Fayette County, PA. It is the site of George Washington’s only military surrender. |
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| Fort established by the French in 1754; in the same year, George Washington lead an expedition to drive the French out...He won. |
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| British Secretary of State during the Seven Years’ War; later Prime Minister of Great Britain. |
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| To force someone to serve in an army or navy. |
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| Officer in the British Army and as Commander-In-Chief of the Forces. Served as the nominal Crown Governor of Virginia from 1759-1768. |
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| British general who led one of the expeditions sent to seize French Canada. He commanded the attack on Quebec in 1759. |
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| Commander of French forces in North America during the Seven Years’ War. He is known for his role in the Fall of Quebec. |
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| Province in Canada. The Battle of Quebec, a pivotal battle in the Seven Years’ War, was fought here. |
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| Signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the COngress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784 and the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784. It formally ended the American Revolutionary War. |
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| King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; he defeated France in the Seven Years’ War but many of its American colonies were lost in the American Revolutionary War, leading to the United States of America. |
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| British prime minister from 1783-1765. The Stamp Act was passed during his term in office. |
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| Ottawa Indian chief credited with organizing and leading a rebellion against the British, during which he led a year-long siege of Fort Detroit (1763-1764). Terms of peace were reached in 1766. |
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| Organized Britain’s new North American empire and to stable relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. |
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| “Intolerable Acts”—Restored imperial control over the colonies. |
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| Halved the tax of molasses (now 3 pence) but added other goods to the list of taxable items. |
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| Prohibited American colonies from issuing paper currency of any form. |
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| Tax that required all printed materials in the colonies to carry a stamp tax. |
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