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act by the Parliament of Great Britain
in 1766, during America's colonial period; one of a series of resolutions passed attempting to regulate the behaviour of the colonies |
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| an undocumented, though long-standing, British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. |
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| the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588 |
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| Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The purpose of the proclamation was to establish Britain's vast new North American empire, and to stabilize relations with Native Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. |
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| the assembly of representatives in colonial Virginia. |
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| The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns |
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| was a period of 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms expanded themselves over the Iberian Peninsula at the expense of the Muslim states of Al-Andalus |
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| an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles |
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| a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. |
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| the statute (1689) granting religious freedom to dissenting Protestants upon meeting certain conditions. |
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| a term coined by Julián Juderías in his 1914 book La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica (The Black Legend and Historical Truth), to describe the depiction of Spain and Spaniards as "cruel", "intolerant" and "fanatical" in anti-Spanish literature, starting in the sixteenth century. |
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| The theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumulating bullion, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade. |
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| The Governor lays out his arguments for charity and decent human behavior in the community. ... A Model of Christian Charity Governor John Winthrop |
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| The office of a patroon...a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey. |
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| divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe into an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa) |
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| Acts of Trade and Navigation |
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| aimed against the American Colonies and the Dutch, who were profiting from most of the overseas trade between the West Indies and Europe. |
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| Governor Winthrop, a founder of the Massachusetts colony, said, "We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us." |
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| acts of the British Parliament in 1767, esp. the act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies. |
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Coercive Acts
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Thirteen Colonies to a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The acts were met with outrage and resistance in the colonies and were important developments in the growth of the American |
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| an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620. |
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| any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence. |
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| Trials held in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 that led to the execution of twenty people for allegedly practicing witchcraft. The trials are noted for the hysterical atmosphere in which they were conducted |
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| a system of obtaining land in colonial times in which one received fifty acres of land for every emigrant to America one sponsored |
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| a laborer under contract of an employer for some period of time, usually three to seven years, in exchange for transportation there, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities. |
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| Nonimportation Agreements |
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| a nonconsumption agreement, strictly adhered to, will be an effectual security for the observation of the nonimportation |
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| a body of representatives appointed by the legislatures of twelve North American coloniesbof the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1774 |
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| a series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, from c 1725-1770 |
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| a fort established by the French in 1754 ,at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony |
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| in the US, a land grant system started in 1503 which gave certain Spaniards an estate or tract of land in America as well as the Native American inhabitants of that land; also, this tract of land and its inhabitants |
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| a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts. |
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