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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Deism|belief that God can be understood rationally; deism rejects "revelation" (Scripture, i.e, the Bible, and the "living God") and asserts an impersonal God or supreme being; deists followed Enlightenment thought that the world can be understood through reason alone}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Deism|belief that God can be understood rationally; deism rejects "revelation" (Scripture, i.e, the Bible, and the "living God") and asserts an impersonal God or supreme being; deists followed Enlightenment thought that the world can be understood through reason alone}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|a New England preacher of pietism}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|a New England preacher of pietism}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening|following a 1739 tour of the colonies by English Methodist preacher George Whitefield, a religious "awakening" or "revival" based upon Protestant principles of individual relationships with God and "pietism," or strict adherence to Biblical strictures of behavior; Whitefield's visit followed Jonathan Edwards' movement and was enhanced by advances in the printing industry, which spread his sermons, biography, etc., including by Benjamin Franklin; the Great Awakening was possible due to greater exchange between the colonies and development of the printing industry. The Great Awakening influenced people at the personal level and included women who preached publicly; established churches objected to the "New Lights"}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening|following a 1739 tour of the colonies by English Methodist preacher George Whitefield, a religious "awakening" or "revival" based upon Protestant principles of individual relationships with God and "pietism," or strict adherence to Biblical strictures of behavior; Whitefield's visit followed Jonathan Edwards' movement and was enhanced by advances in the printing industry, which spread his sermons, biography, etc., including by Benjamin Franklin; the Great Awakening was possible due to greater exchange between the colonies and development of the printing industry. The Great Awakening influenced people at the personal level and included women who preached publicly; established churches objected to the "New Lights". Students should connect the Great Awakening to democratic and reform principles, especially equality, self-governance, religious freedom, freedom of conscience, personal morality.}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|land grants in exchange for bringing labor to the colonies, usually in the form of indentured servitude; was started in 1618 and most employed in Virginia}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|land grants in exchange for bringing labor to the colonies, usually in the form of indentured servitude; was started in 1618 and most employed in Virginia}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Anne Hutchinson|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:indentured servitude|contractual servitude, or slavery for a set period of time; generally, indentured servants paid debts, such as passage across the Atlantic, or other debts, with their service; families might "sell" children into indentured servitude; demand for early colonial farm labor in the middle colonies was filled through indentured servitude}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:indentured servitude|contractual servitude, or slavery for a set period of time; generally, indentured servants paid debts, such as passage across the Atlantic, or other debts, with their service; families might "sell" children into indentured servitude; demand for early colonial farm labor in the middle colonies was filled through indentured servitude}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jamestown|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jamestown|}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>Navigation Acts, 1663, 1673, 1696</ul></li> | <ul><li>Navigation Acts, 1663, 1673, 1696</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>New England town meetings</ul></li> | <ul><li>New England town meetings</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:William Penn| Quaker English noble who in 1681 was granted extensive landholdings in the mid-Atlantic ("the Province of Pennsylvania") to pay debts due to his father from King Charles II. As a "propriety" colony, Penn and his descendants ruled Pennsylvania until the American Revolution (and when Delaware was created as a separate state); Penn organized the government under the "Frame of Government of Pennsylvania," an important document in colonial self-governance, granting legislative powers to an assembly made up of "inhabitants, freeholders and proprietors" of the colony; the Penn family was largely an "absentee landlord" (not living there) and profited from rents and taxes collected on their lands, which was resented by residents, especially non-Quaker immigrants}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Pequot War, 1636-37|Massachusets: the Pequot fought and lost to English settlers and their allies, Narragansett and Mohegan tribes; ended Pequot resistance to English settlement expansion}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Pequot War, 1636-37|Massachusets: the Pequot fought and lost to English settlers and their allies, Narragansett and Mohegan tribes; ended Pequot resistance to English settlement expansion}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Puritan/s|Christian sect that opposed the Anglican Church and believed in strict adherence to biblical stricture (rules); Puritans largely settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, although many ventured into southern colonies}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Puritan/s|Christian sect that opposed the Anglican Church and believed in strict adherence to biblical stricture (rules); Puritans largely settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, although many ventured into southern colonies}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:salutary neglect|a phrase coined during the Revolutionary period by British politician and philosopher Edmund Burke who argued that the "neglect" of the colonies exercised by the British government prior to the French-Indian War was "salutary", or healthy; and that the post-French-Indian War interventions in the colonies were not productive for either side; Burke was sympathetic to the Colonial cause, but did not overtly align himself with them}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:salutary neglect|a phrase coined during the Revolutionary period by British politician and philosopher Edmund Burke who argued that the "neglect" of the colonies exercised by the British government prior to the French-Indian War was "salutary", or healthy; and that the post-French-Indian War interventions in the colonies were not productive for either side; Burke was sympathetic to the Colonial cause, but did not overtly align himself with them}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:slave codes|local and colonial rules and laws that limited the rights and economic liberties of slaves and free blacks; the codes were first imposed in Barbados and Jamaica, and first adopted in Virginia and South Carolina, then spread to other colonies; the codes limited rights of blacks and reduced or annulled penalties on whites who abused or murdered blacks; restrictions on | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:slave codes|local and colonial rules and laws that limited the rights and economic liberties of slaves and free blacks; the codes were first imposed in Barbados and Jamaica, and first adopted in Virginia and South Carolina, then spread to other colonies; the codes limited rights of blacks and reduced or annulled penalties on whites who abused or murdered blacks; restrictions on slaves and blacks included not recognizing baptism, prohibiting teaching slaves to read, and limiting their movement; the British government did not impose any slave codes upon the colonies, although it allowed them in the colonies}}</ul></li> | ||
[[File:Penncolony.png|thumb|Map of the Province of Pennsylvania|alt=Map of the Province of Pennsylvania]] | [[File:Penncolony.png|thumb|Map of the Province of Pennsylvania|alt=Map of the Province of Pennsylvania]] | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Roger Williams|Founder of Rhode Island; established religious tolerance}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:yeoman|independent farmers and landowners, who lived and farmed independently but without amassing great wealth; the "yeoman society" contrasted with the legacies of Old World feudal structures in which great landowners had tenant farmers; the yeoman ideal was independence, land ownership and local self-government, especially in New England; in Virginia the yeoman farmers contrasted with and political opposed plantation owners}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:yeoman|independent farmers and landowners, who lived and farmed independently but without amassing great wealth; the "yeoman society" contrasted with the legacies of Old World feudal structures in which great landowners had tenant farmers; the yeoman ideal was independence, land ownership and local self-government, especially in New England; in Virginia the yeoman farmers contrasted with and political opposed plantation owners}}</ul></li> | ||
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