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French and Indian War
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(1754 - 1763) War erupted between France and England when the English challenged the French for control of the land that is now Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
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Indentured servants
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Servants who contracted to work as many as seven years to repay the cost of their passage
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Triangular trade
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Slave trade in the 1700s was triangular trade. New England merchants traded rum for slaves in West Africa. The slaves were sold in the West Indies for molasses or sugar, which was shipped to New England to make more rum.
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The Enlightenment
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An intellectual movement that held that reliance on reason and experience would lead to social progress.
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Natural Rights
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John Locke believed that people are born free with these rights: Right to life, liberty, and property.
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Magna Carta
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(1215) A document that placed limits on King John of Englands power to rule.
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House of Burgesses
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As early as 1619, Virginia colonists took the first step toward republican government when they instituted the colonies' first representative lawmaking body.
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Causes of the American Revolution
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Britain and France were involved in a rivalry for power, and only in Europe, but wherever the nation had colonies.
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Salutary neglect
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A healthy ignoring of the colonies. While preoccupied with France during the American Revolution, Britain governed the colonies under this policy.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1763
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Marked Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years' (or French and Indian) War. It also shifted the way power was distributed in North America.
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Proclamation of 1763
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Prohibited movement into the lands gained from France, which was resented by the English colonists yet ignored due to France's defeat.
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Mercanitilism
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Held that colonies existed to provide raw materials and markets for the economic benefit of the home country. Was in result to the British government believing that the colonies should pay for their own defense.
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Stamp Act
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(1765) An act passed by Parliament which required a tax stamp on printed materials.
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Townshend Acts
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Taxed imported goods
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Tories/Loyalists
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Those who supported the king and obedience to English laws
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