Key People
This man was granted a large tract of land which is modern day Pennsylvania, where Quakers settled.
Who is William Penn?
These people were pacifists that believed both women and men could serve as clergy, and believed all people had an "inner light".
The journey for Africans sold into slavery to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This colony was known to use a strict racial hierarchy, and focused on growing rice.
What is in South Carolina?
What is the West Indies, or Barbados?
This man was appointed as a Royal Governor of the Dominion of New England, where James II reorganized several colonies into a new Royal province. He was an unpopular governor who was eventually run out of the colonies.
Who is Edmund Andros?
Acts that mandated colonists shipped goods only on English ships that sailed to English ports, and colonists must buy only English goods.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The name for a new Royal Colony founded by James II that included New York, Massachusetts, the rest of New England, and later New Jersey.
What is the Dominion of New England?
Britain discouraged trade with other nations, but American Colonists would often do this, to get around these mandates and tariffs.
What is smuggling?
This man led a revolution against the Dominion of New England. This revolution highlighted tensions between upper and lower classes in the Colonies.
A royal grant of English land given to an individual, who could rule them as he wished, as long as it was within English Law.
What are proprietorships?
This was the overthrow of James II in England in 1688 by the Protestant Prince William of Orange.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This Native American tribe attempted to remain neutral between the French and English and played each one off one another.
Who are the Iroquois?
Salutary Neglect, or Britain allowing the Colonies to do what they pleased as long as they were profitable ended with this war in 1763.
What is the Seven Years War, or the French Indian War.
This man's writing inspired several revolutions, including the Glorious Revolution, as well as the American Revolution. His work was based on the idea that government is based on people's consent, and people have certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This referred to the British policy of relaxing rule of the English Colonies as long as they were profitable, and was supported by British philosopher Edmund Burke.
What is salutary neglect?
The system that limited the monarchy's power by using a Declaration of Rights and instituting some checks upon the Crown following the fall of James II in the Glorious Revolution.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
In 1740 slaves made up 40% of this region, which included modern day Maryland and Virginia.
The process of Native American tribes merging together to escape extinction during the growth of the Colonies.
What is tribalization?
This Protestant Dutch Prince who was married to James's II's daughter, overthrowing the king in what is called the Glorious Revolution.
Who is William of Orange?
A new agricultural and commercial system that greatly benefited Britain with increased trade and goods flowing from the West Indies and the Colonies into Britain.
These people could vote in early Colonial Assemblies.
Who are white property owning male voters?
This event in 1676 led to a greater reliance on slave labor in the Chesapeake and beyond in the Colonies.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This was passed by Britain to limit the amount of Colonial paper money that eventually devalued the currency and angered British merchants that were required to accept the tender.
What was the Currency Act (1751)?