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| In the treaty of Tordesillas |
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| the Portuguese persuaded Isabella and Ferdinand to change the boundary line and thus shut Spain out of Asia and the Philippines and the wealth those areas possessed. |
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| King James persecuted the separatists at which point |
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| Sir Edwin Sandys came up with the idea of having them transferred to the Americas |
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| Second signed was the Civil Body Politik which |
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| was like a constitution that enforced and enacted laws. |
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| Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay when he stated that |
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| no one was truely able to know who was saved and who was damned. Only the person and God knew that |
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| If you follow God’s laws, the state’s are unimportant |
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| encouraging people to live on their land by granting land based on how many people came with you or how many you paid for |
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| the goods that the people on the land had to pay to the original landowner |
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| In 1649 the Act of Toleration was passed which |
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| prevented form of violence or molestation against any member of society based on religious beliefs |
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| Tracts of land with 18 miles of Hudson River Frontage granted to any person who settled 50 families |
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| The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina |
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| Created by Anthony Ashley Cooper and written by John Locke, it contained 120 detailed articles |
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| Originally Georgia was to be |
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| a military buffer state protecting South Carolina from the Spanish in Florida |
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| Colonel James Oglethorpe was chosen to develop Georgia. He wanted to form a society in which |
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| jailed debtors could go and start a new life once their obligations were paid |
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| The Navigation Act states that |
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-all colonial trade be carried by vessels built and owned by English or colonial merchants
-Three out of four sailors of trade vessels had to be English or colonials.
- The Navigation Acts also required that any goods that were intended to be sold need to be first taken to an English Port call an “Entrepot” where the goods would be distributed, monitored and shipped to America.
- Enumerated Articles - Colonial exports that could only be shipped to English Ports in order to ensure that part of the profit on the export went to England. In addition England collected a very large tax on all enumerated articles |
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| A bunch of white people got pissed off at a bunch of Indians and kicked their asses. |
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| The French conquered small amounts of British land. |
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| Tax on sugar. Not enforced. |
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| Colonists took a bunch of French territory. Then the British gave it all back. |
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| London drew a boundary on the Appalachian divide that prevented any of the English from doing trade or venturing west of this line. Anyone who had settled in that area previously was relocated either east or north |
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| The molasses act, but enforced. |
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| East India Company are the only ones allowed to sell tea. |
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1) Boston was closed to trade until the tea was paid for
2) Governor General Thomas Gage was permitted to take the trials of any soldier or British official accused of killing civilians out of the colony
3) Government of Massachusetts changed - Power went from elected bodies to the king’s appointed officials
4) New Quartering Act - Authorized the housing of redcoats in occupied private homes |
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| Resolutions that stated that the Intolerable Acts were invalid, and called for a boycott of trade with Britain if the laws were not repealed |
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| the independence of the United States was recognized. The Mississippi River was the western Boundary. Americans were given fishing rights off British Newfoundland nad Nova Scotia. The United States promised not to mistreat loyalists and to compensate them for siezed property |
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| Tax on whiskey. Led to the whiskey rebellion. |
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| Responsible for moving Americans into Mexico |
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| No slavery in Mexican land |
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| The belief that the war was not worth the expense in blood and money |
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| The line that splits Canada (British) from the U.S |
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| Treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo |
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| Mexico seeds Rio Grandé to California and New Mexico in 1848 |
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| New England Emigrant Aid Company |
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| Paid for anti-slavery people to move to Kansas (cause of Bleeding Kansas) |
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| The Cambridge Agreement of 1629 |
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| The Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter. |
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| Was a series of peninsulas washed by the water of the ocean, so the ocean brought ships in and out, which made it easy to smuggle. It was the first part of the tobacco colonies to be settled |
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| The currency of Massachusetts |
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| The war over who would reign in Spain. South Carolina was involved because they competed with France in the fur trade, and thus didn't want them to control Spain. |
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| Prime Minister who pulled French out of occupation of America. |
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| Responsible for Sugar and Stamp acts. |
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| British: We can tax you if/when we want. |
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| Taxes on certain British goods coming into the colonies. When Brits realized this didn't help them, it was revoked for everything but tea (just to show they still had power). |
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| Turning point of the Revolutionary War. |
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1. 5% tariff on imports.
2. Assumption of state debts.
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4. Protective tariffs. |
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| British evacuate their forts in the U.S., and Americans pay down their pre-war debts to the British. |
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| Extended time necessary to become a citizen from 5 to 14 years. |
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| Provided stiff fines and prison sentences for person who published statements that held the US government in “contempt or disrepute”. |
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| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
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| Condemned the Alien and Sedition acts. Claimed that nullification was constitutional. |
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| Forbid neutrals to trade in Europe without first stopping at a British port. |
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| Any ships that obeyed the Orders of Council would be seized by the French. |
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| Forbade American ships from leaving ports, in an effort to hurt the British economy. It hurt the American more, though, and was soon repealed. |
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| War hawks attacking Canada. |
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| Restored British-American relations to those before war. |
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| First campaign of mudslinging. |
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| Ridiculously high protective tariff. |
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| Highest protective tariff in history. Nullified by South Carolina. |
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| Forced South Carolina to accept the Tariff of 1832. |
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| Ripoff of Dec. of Ind. but for the women's rights movement. |
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| American Colonization Society |
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| For moving blacks to West Africa. |
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| A black slave who orginized a slave rebellion. |
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| Polk vs. Clay. Decided by the Texas issue. Polk is for annexation, so he wins. |
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| We kicked some serious Mexican ass. |
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| California would be a free state, the territories would not be orginized as anything, no slave trade in DC, and a stronger fugitive slave act. |
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| Extend the Missouri Compromise line. |
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| North's name for blockade |
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| People got free land for settling out west. |
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| Constitution drafted by pro-slavery people in Kansas |
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