Pre-Revolutionary Personalities
These were a series of British laws enacted from the mid-17th century to regulate colonial trade and ensure that the colonies' economic benefits flowed to Great Britain. Under mercantilist policy, the acts required colonial trade to be conducted on British-built and British-crewed ships, restricted trade to British ports, and listed certain "enumerated" colonial products that had to be shipped to England.
What are the Navigation Acts
Also known as the Age of Reason, this intellectual movement spread through the colonies as a result of Transatlantic print culture
What was the Enlightenment?
What a majority of early English immigrants into the Chesapeake Bay area came over as.
Who were indentured servants?
Protestant evangelicalism was exemplified by this
What is the Great Awakening?
New York editor of the New York Weekly Journal who became famous for criticizing New York governor William Cosby.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
This was the effort by the British crown to ensure better control of the New England colonies, which included uniting the colonies under this name
What was the Dominion of New England?
The main religious group in New England that was often very intolerant of others' religious differences, drove out people like Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
Who were the Puritans?
The part of the population that was a majority in many church congregations.
What are women?
Editor of Poor Richard's Almanack and the Pennsylvania Gazette who personified the American Enlightenment
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Lawyer who defended John Peter Zenger in his freedom of the press trial in New York in 1736
Who was Andrew Hamilton?
a Protestant religious revival that swept through the American colonies from the 1730s to the 1740s, characterized by fervent, emotional preaching, emphasis on personal faith over rigid doctrine, and charismatic itinerant preachers like George Whitefield.
What was the Great Awakening?
Very pacifist Protestant group committed to equality, pacifism, and truth, which led them to social reform movements like abolition and women's rights, and they founded Pennsylvania as a sanctuary for religious freedom.
Who were the Quakers?
The political majority in New England that did not want to separate from the Anglican Church, but just "purify" it.
Who were the Puritans?
The demand for these goods greatly increased as the colonies developed
What is British manufactured goods?
Wampanoag Chief who led a large-scale conflict against English colonists and their allies in New England, and united several indigenous tribes to resist colonial encroachment and assert their sovereignty, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in American history
Who was Metacom, or King Philip?
This action occurred in the colonies: the process of adapting a person, place, or thing to become more English in form or character, through language, culture, or customs.
What is Anglicization?
a British policy in the 17th and 18th centuries where the crown intentionally allowed its American colonies to develop a sense of autonomy and self-governance by laxly enforcing British trade laws and regulations, which fostered self-reliance and self-governance in the colonies
What was salutary neglect?
In the 18th century, Virginia and Massachusetts, the two biggest and oldest colonies became royal colonies, meaning they were taken over by this person.
What is the King?
Two largest European non-English groups that immigrated to the colonies
What is Germans and Scots-Irish?
the Puritan minister who ignited the Great Awakening by writing the famous pamphlet, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
To enforce English authority in the Dominion of New England, King James II sent this unpopular official to New England, until he was forced out.
What was Sir Edmond Andros?
Two slave uprisings that greatly changed the rigid nature of slave codes in both the north and south
What were the Stono Rebellion and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741? (or the New York City Slave revolt
What is the Ohio River Valley?
First African American landowning slaveowner
Who was Anthony Johnson?