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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in the Americas. Struggled for first two years until 1610 when settlers brought tobacco. tobacco fist profitable crop in Virginia. The headright system, crested in 1618, was a way to solve the labor shortage. People already in Virginia received 100 acres of land and 1 headright, 50 acres, was granted per person who made the voyage. Those who paid for others would recieve that persons headright and gain an indentured servant. -
Indentured Servantry started
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Idea of Slavery introduced
A Dutch ship brought over an unusual group of indentured servants, black Africans. At first they are treated like every other indentured servant. -
Mayflower compact created
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Mayflower Landed at Plymouth Harbor
A total of 102 passengers made the voyage. -
First Thanksgiving
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Puritans
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston. City on a Hill, proclaimed by John Winthrop first governor, would be a role model for future generations, created in 1630. Act of Toleration, Puritans were very religiously tolerant people. -
Mercantalism Begins
European Countries adopted Mercantilism looked upon trade, colonies, and accumulation of wealth as basis of countries military and political strength. -
Halfway Covenant Created
In an effort to maintain the church's and influence and membership some clergy's offered the halfway covenant, in which people could become partial church members even if they had not felt a conversion. -
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Salutary neglect
Britain's unofficial policy that relaxed the enforcement of strict laws and regulations imposed on the American colonies. This enabled the American colonies to prosper by trading with non-British entities, and then to spend that wealth on British-made goods, while at the same time providing Britain with raw materials for manufacture. But in doing so, it also enabled the colonies to operate independently of Britain, both economically and politically, and to create an American identity. -
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Slavery
The Virginia House of Burgess had enacted laws that discriminated between blacks and whites. Africans ad their offspring were to be kept in permanent bondage. Continues for nearly 200 years. Until the 13th amendment. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Led by Nathaniel Bacon, a poor farmer. Was a rebellion against Berkley's government. Bacon and others resented the economic and political control exercised by a few large planters in the Chesapeake area. -
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The Great Awakening
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French and Indian War (The Seven Years War)
Changed how Brits and Americans viewed each other and ended Salutary Neglect. Brits: though American army was ill trained and disorderly. American: proud of their war efforts, were not impressed with British troops or their leadership. -
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Proclomation of 1763
In an effort to stabilize the western frontier, British government issued a proclamation prohibiting colonist from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains. Americans strongly disliked this and did not follow it. -
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Sugar Act
Placed duties on foreign sugar and certain luxuries. Main purpose was to raise money for the crown. -
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Stamp Act
Required revenue stamps to be placed on most printed papers. First tax to be paid directly by the people not the merchants. -
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Quartering Act
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Declaratory Act
Stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies as they pleased. -
Townshend Acts
Duties to be collected on colonial imports of tea, glass, and paper. Home searches for smuggled goods made legal. Suspended New York's assembly for the colonies defiance of the Quartering Act. -
Townshend Acts Repealed