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Creating a Brittish Empire in America
The Politics of Empire 1660-1713
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History
Undergraduate 1
02/01/2010

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William Penn
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Established the colony of Pennsylvania to provide a refuge for the religious group known as the QUAKERS
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John Locke
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Wrote the 1960 political tract, Two Treatises of Government, which proposed that the legitimacy of government rests on the consent of the governed.
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Glorious Revolution
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The bloodless coup in which the Parliment replaced James II, a catholic, with his Protestant daughter Mary and her Husband, William of Orange.
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Jacob Leisier
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The German immigrant who, with the support of the wealthy elite, overthrew the governer of New York in 1689 and was later removed from office and executed.
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Convenant Chain
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Military alliances that improved the iroquois's relations with the colony of New York and Algonquian tribes of new England.
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