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<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>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening<|}}/ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening<|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | ||
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<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; 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>{{#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"|an early Virginia settlement that was abandoned, leaving a small group who disappeared}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:"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>{{#tip-text:Massachusetts Bay Colony|}}</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: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 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>{{#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> | ||
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<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>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|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>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>{{#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 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>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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