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Sir William Howe
British commander
Republicanism
Virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
Levelers
A political movement favoring expanded liberties
George Washington
Commander of the Continental Army
Great league of peace
Confederation of five Iroquois tribes
Deference
Courteous respect
Patrick Henry
Declared give me liberty or give me death
Gullah
Distinct slave dialect
Patroon's
Dutch land owners of large estates
Anglicization
Elites in America becoming more culturally English
Charter of liberties
English demanded this over their former Dutch rulers
Deism
Enlightenment religion
Maroons
Jamaican fugitive slaves
Haciendas
Large scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
Marquis de Lafayette
Lead French forces against British at Yorktown
Thomas Hutchinson
Massachusetts lieutenant governor
Pueblo revolt
Uprising against Spanish colonists in new Spain
Evangelists
Bearers of the good news
Quakers
Believed in the equality of all persons
Quakers
Believed the Spirit of God dwelled in all persons
Virginia company
Charter company that establish Jamestown
Ladies association
Raised funds to assist American soldiers
Old lights
Religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
Republican motherhood
Responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
Loyalists
Retain their allegiance to the crown
Moravian bretheren
Revolution undermined church authority among this group
ASiento
Right to provide slaves to Spanish America
Crispus Attucks
Sailor who died in the Boston massacre
Sierra Leone
Settlement and Africa for freed slaves
Stono rebellion
Slaves fought in South Carolina
Matrilineal
Society centered on the mother's family
Black legend
Spanish brutality
New laws
Spanish reform measures toward Indians
Militia
School of political democracy
Charles Townshend
British chancellor of the exchequer
Coverture
A married woman surrendering her legal identity
Halfway covenant
A religious compromise for the descendants of the great migration
Virtue
Ability to sacrifice self interest for the public good
Freedom petitions
Actions slaves took for their immediate release
Toleration act
Allowed Protestant dissenters to worship freely in England
Benedict Arnold
American traitor and command of west pointpoint
Mound builders
Ancient residence of the Mississippi Valley region
Popery
And offensive term for the rituals of the catholic church
Puritans
Argued the church of England was still to Catholic
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the declaration of independence
Patriots
Fighting for the American cause
House of burgesses
First elected assembly in colonial
Mayflower compact
First written frame of government in British America
Ethan Allen
Founder of Vermont
Indentured servant
Gave 5 to 7 years of service for passage to America
Head right system America
Granted 50 acres to anyone who paid his own passage
Royal African company
Had a monopoly on the slave trade
Proclamation of 1763
No colonial settlement west of the Appalachian's
Lord Dunmore
Offered freedom to slaves if they fought for the British
Criollos
Person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
Mestizos
Persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
Junto
Political club
Tobacco
Primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies
Act concerning religion
Principles of religious toleration
Bacons rebellion
The poor of Virginia demand change
Suffrage
The right to vote
Middle passage
The ship voyage for slaves from America to the New World
Columbian exchange
Transfer of plants animals and diseases between new and old worlds
King Phillips war
War between new Englanders and Indians
Free labor
Working for wages or owning a farm or shop
Magna Carta
Written and 1215 this document was said to embody English freedom
Thomas Paine
Wrote common sense