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Mercantilism

More exports than imports colonies give raw materials to mother land

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Navigation acts

Required colonies to trade with British and taxed them when they passed through their ports

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stone rebellion

Slaves stole weapons from a store and killed store owners and marched stono river burning plantations squashed by militia

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Jamestown

First permanent settlement almost failed at first bc of disease but then became very successful

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Indentured servants

Ppl gave up rights for years to gain citizenship in new world

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Bacons rebellion

1676, Poor farmers and indentured servants revolted against governor berkley bc he wouldn’t drive natives out and attacked natives

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City on a hill

We were ideal model society and every should be like us

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Mayflower compact

First establish gov in new world

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House of burgesses

Assembly to enforce laws and tax’s

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Great awakening

Religious revival first break away from British

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Salutary neglect

British were to far to enforce taxes in new world and so increase of self government

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Enlightenment

More Secular/ logical ideas over religious

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Encomienda system

colonists get forced labor from the people they colonized

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Joint stock companies

Investors pool money together to fund colonization

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Social contract

Power to govern is in ppls hands and those people give govt some power in return for the protection of their natural rights

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Impressment

British seize men to serve in royal navy’s which angers colonists and increases tensions