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<ul></li>{{#tip-text:Appalachian Mountains|running nort-south along the eastern coast of the 13 colonies, the Appalachians isolated the east coast and formed a natural barrier to western expansion; the Proclamation of 1863 unsuccessfully barred colonial settlement west of the Appalachians}}</ul></li> | <ul></li>{{#tip-text:Appalachian Mountains|running nort-south along the eastern coast of the 13 colonies, the Appalachians isolated the east coast and formed a natural barrier to western expansion; the Proclamation of 1863 unsuccessfully barred colonial settlement west of the Appalachians}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bacon’s Rebellion|1676 Virginia rebellion that breifly occupied the colonial at Jamestown over a dispute over protection of settlers who had moved into indian lands; Bacon, a wealthy landowner, had let a militia to protect frontier settlers from indian raids, which the governor opposed. Legislators passed "Bacon's Laws" to authorize colonial militia to protect settlers (who were moving into lands east of the Appalachians; Bacon's rebellion marks one of many disputes across US history between urban political and commercial elites and settlers and rural inhabitants)}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bacon’s Rebellion|1676 Virginia rebellion that breifly occupied the colonial at Jamestown over a dispute over protection of settlers who had moved into indian lands; Bacon, a wealthy landowner, had let a militia to protect frontier settlers from indian raids, which the governor opposed. Legislators passed "Bacon's Laws" to authorize colonial militia to protect settlers (who were moving into lands east of the Appalachians; Bacon's rebellion marks one of many disputes across US history between urban political and commercial elites and settlers and rural inhabitants)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>the Great Awakening</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>headright system</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening<|}}/ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>House of Burgesses</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>indentured servitude</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>Jamestown</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> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jamestown|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>John | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:redemptioner system|a form a indentured servitude used by German immigrants to pay for passage to the New World but on terms set upon arrival, not departure, which gave them more say over their conditions}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Rolfe|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Smith|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Joint Stock Company|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:King Philip’s War, 1675-1678|"King Philip" was the adopted English name of Wampanoag chief Metacom, who reversed his father's policy of accommodating English presence in New England; he led raids on settlements, to which the English retaliated; the war was conducted by colonial forces only, and thus gave them a sense of self-sufficiency outside of British protection}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:King Philip’s War, 1675-1678|"King Philip" was the adopted English name of Wampanoag chief Metacom, who reversed his father's policy of accommodating English presence in New England; he led raids on settlements, to which the English retaliated; the war was conducted by colonial forces only, and thus gave them a sense of self-sufficiency outside of British protection}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Baltimore|George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, a Catholic British politician was given a charter by King Charles I for the proprietary colony of Maryland (and earlier in southern Newfoundland; | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Baltimore|George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, a Catholic British politician was given a charter by King Charles I for the proprietary colony of Maryland (and earlier in southern Newfoundland; Baltimore's "proprietary" colony protected religious freedom for Christians; Virginia disputed the borders, and sent anti-Catholic agitators and Puritans to Maryland who ended up taking over the state in anti-Catholic uprisings; Maryland and Virginia actually fought a short war over Maryland's Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>"Lost Colony"</ul></li> | <ul><li>"Lost Colony"|an early Virginia settlement that was abandoned, leaving a small group who disappeared}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>Massachusetts Bay Colony</ul></li> | <ul><li>Massachusetts Bay Colony</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>migration push/ pull factors</ul></li> | <ul><li>migration push/ pull factors|"push" factors are those that motivate people to emigrate (move away from); "pull" factors are those that motivate people to immigrate into a certain place; key push factors in England include religious persecution, poverty, primogeniture, crime, rising population; key pull factors to the 13 colonies include land, trade, adventurism, religious freedom, and general social, political and economic opportunities}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Native American & English relations|students should explore cultural | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Native American & English relations|students should explore cultural differences and differences of perception between Native Americans and English settlers; as well as impact of those relations, including disease, economic, tribal organization, land use, etc.}}</ul></li> | ||
<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: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>Puritan</ul></li> | <ul><li>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>salutary neglect</ul></li> | <ul><li>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>slave codes</ul></li> | <ul><li>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 slavves 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> | ||
<ul><li>William Penn</ul></li> | <ul><li>William Penn|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li> | <ul><li>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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