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Jamestown
The first permanent English colony. Main crop was tobacco -
House of Burgesses
Allowed the colonies to experience self government. Representatives from each burgess would meet to establish taxes and laws for their area. -
Mayflower Compact
The Plymouth Puritans' own set of laws that established majority rule. -
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
The first colonial constitution. Limited governmental powers, majority rule, consent of people, protected minority rights. -
Triangular Trade
The trade route between America, the West Indies, and Africa. Sugar, Molasses, slaves, and basic supplies were circulated throughout the trade route. -
Maryland Toleration Act
The granting of religious freedom to all Christistians in the Maryland colony. -
Mercantilism
A beneficial system to the mother country of more exports than imports. -
Mercantilism
The economic system of exporting more than importing -
Navigation Acts
England put a restriction on American trade so they could make more profits and have more control over it. -
John Peter Zenger
Accused of sedition and libel. He was put on trial and was found innocent. The basis of freedom of the press. -
Great awakening
Colonists began to break free of the traditonal Church of England. -
French and Indian War
The fight between England and the colonist and the French and Native Americans over land. -
Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite all the colonies for a common defense. -
Proclamation of 1763
In an agreement with the Native Americans, England stopped colonist settlements to the west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The taxing on all paper in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A group of British shoot at colonists causing casualties . -
Intolerable Act
Laws set to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Closed harbors and gave the colonists a curfew. -
The Quartering Act
Colonists were forced to feed and house British soldiers. -
Tea Act
Shipped tea directly to the colonies and lowered the shipping price. -
Lexington and Concord
The start of the revolutiionary war. -
Olive Branch Petition
A letter written to King George III asking for an end to the fighting. He refuses to read it. -
Common Sense
A pamphlet that talks about how different England and the colonies were and how the two could no longer unite. -
Declaration of Independece
A document that listed complaints against Britain and explained America's reason for declaring independence.