Enlightenment and Great Awakening
This was a European cultural movement that emphasized rational and scientific thinking over traditional religion and superstition.
What was the ENLIGHTENMENT?
It is said that the South became a slave ______ (this term) rather than a place(like the north) with slaves.
What is a SOCIETY.
This is a word that describes behavior or language aimed at starting a rebellion against a government.
What is SEDITIOUS?
These are the TWO Chesapeake/Southern Colonies
What are MARYLAND and VIRGINIA?
THIS crop became the most profitable crop in places like the Barbados.
What is SUGARCANE?
This is the term for going against the established order.
What is DISSENT?
This was the brutal transatlantic portion of the forced journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas. Historians estimate that millions of enslaved Africans died before they arrived in the Americas.
What was the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
THIS was a 1739 uprising by enslaved Africans and African Americans in South Carolina, which intensified white fear of slave revolts
What is the STONO REBELLION?
THIS was the first written constitution adopted in North America.
What is the MAYFLOWER COMPACT?
These laws were passed by Parliament in the 1650s and 1660s that prohibited smuggling, established guidelines for legal commerce, and set duties on trade items.
What were the NAVIGATION ACTS?
Of the following, THIS is an example of Enlightenment ideas:
- British government efforts to exert more control over the colonies
- Plantation-owning colonial leaders
- The use of town hall meetings in colonial New England
What is the USE OF TOWN HALL MEETINGS IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND?
THIS was the term for legislation throughout the colonies in the latter half of the 17th century which defined slavery as an inherited race-based system to increase control over the African population.
What are SLAVE CODES?
This 1713 treaty that ended Queen Anne’s War. It aimed to achieve peace by balancing the interests of European powers and their colonial possessions.
What is the TREATY OF UTRECHT?
The British crown funding the Carolina colony despite a prolonged shortage of white laborers for THIS reason.
What is to copy the success of the plantation system in the West Indies?
This was the economic policy of countries like England and France in which trade always favored the mother country.
What is MERCANTILISM?
Colonial religious leaders who called for religious revivals and emphasized the emotional aspects of spiritual commitment. They were leaders in the Great Awakening.
Who were the New Light Clergy?
Continual struggles and wars between English and Indians over land in 18th century Pennsylvania were due to THIS.
What is the growing settler population claimed land without permission?
THIS was also known as the war of Spanish Succession
What was QUEEN ANNE'S WAR?
THIS colony was headed by a Catholic proprietor and passed the Act of Religious Toleration in 1649.
What is MARYLAND?
Dutch explorers in the Americas were motivated by THIS.
What is ECONOMIC PROFIT?
This man was one of the most prominent and successful New Light preachers of the Great Awakening.
Who was GEORGE WHITEFIELD?
After Nathanial Bacon died, his supporters were struggling to keep the rebellion going. THIS MAN used reinforcements brought by the English navy and quickly reclaimed power in Virginia.
Who was GOVERNER BERKELEY?
This was a war (1689-1697) that began as a conflict over competing French and English interests on the European continent but soon spread to the American frontier. Indians got pulled into the war also.
What was King William's War?
In England, THIS man claimed victory after ousting King Charles I. He ruled England as a military dictator until his death in 1658. The monarchy was restored when Charles II returned from exile.
Who was OLIVER CROMWELL?
This French King and his English rivals embraced mercantilism. He taxed foreign imports while removing all barriers to trade within French territories.
Who was Louis XIV?