APUSH
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Building the foundations
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House of Burgesses
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– 1 Colonial Assembly
Mayflower Covenant:
– 1620
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– 1 written framework of government
– government by consent
Direct Democracy—New England Town Meetings
Headright System:
– encouraged settlement
– land went to whoever paid the passage
Principles of Religious Freedom
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Separation of Church & State
o Puritans: Halfway Covenant
o Quaker Abdication
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Roger Williams & founding of Rhode Island
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Great Awakening:
– 1730s-1760s
– First revivalism movement
– Preachers:
• Jonathan Edwards
• ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’
• George White field—itinerant revivalist
– Effects of…
• emphasis on sin & eternal damnation
• emotional redemption-- evangelical movement
• religious schisms within established churches
• extended reach & scope of religion
• united colonies
• challenged authority
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Freedom of Speech:
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John Peter Zenger
German printer of New York Weekly Journal
1735 Zenger criticized Gov. William Cosby for corrupt
practices>charged with Sedition
Zenger’s Lawyers won case & established two legal principles:
– truth is an adequate defense against sedition
– juries should determine the general guilt or innocence of the
defendant
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Zenger Case 1 step in the recognition of Freedom of Speech (&
Press)
Unity V. Discord
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New England Confederation:
– 1643
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– 1 attempt by
– colonies to unite
– Mass, Plymouth, Connecticut, & New Haven
– declare war
– supervise Indian Affairs
– mediate intra-colonial disputes
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Summary: (important events & their significance
Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676
– rebellion against Virginia government caused by:
– tension b/t large planters and poor whites
– conflict of interest b/t eastern coast and frontier
– Disagreement over Indian policy--Bacon wanted more land
open for settlement
– Governor Berkeley arrested Bacon
– Bacon freed & seized control of Western VA
– Bacon died of malaria, followers executed
– Built fear of joint European & African servant rebellion
Leisler’s Rebellion:
– 1689—Jacob Leisler, merchant
– Attempted to seize control of New York
– Caused by
– Glorious Revolution in England
– dissatisfaction of Dutch middle class
– 1691: Leisler charged with treason & hung
Paxton Boys Uprising:
– 1763
– Pennsylvania frontiersmen revolt against eastern-dominated
assembly’s unwillingness to defend frontier
– attack tribes then march on Philadelphia
– Ben Franklin persuade them to return home by promising
assembly would pay bounties for scalps
Regulator War:
– 1769
– East/West conflict in North Carolina
– Caused by east coast dominance of assembly