Key Terms
What is mercantilism?
a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals
What was the glorious revolution?
The glorious revolution was the event of Parliament ordering the Scottish to kill and overrule King James 2, having William of Orange and his wife Mary rule in a Constitutional Monarchy
What was the Kings role in society?
The King had been the overseer and worked with the parliament to ensure that the colonies were dependant and that the King had as much control as possible. Along with making sure the British got their money from the colonies.
Natural Laws
The belief that all humans have life, liberty, & property (protected laws by the King)
Allowed for slaves to be seen as equal and baptized which upset slave owning colonists
What is Triangular trade
a system of transatlantic trade in the 16th century between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What was The Dominion of New England?
The Dominion of New England was an order from Britain that caused for the 13 colonies to have their deeds removed and become one big colony, ruled by the King of England
Slaves
Forced labor by the colonists to work on plantations to make the colonists money
Licensing Act
Law that allowed non-censenored materials to be published and allowed to be read by the public
Southern conflict
Middling white freeholders formed the core of most Church of England congregations. But prominent planters held the real power, using their control of parish finances to discipline ministers.
What is the South Atlantic System?
South Atlantic System was the an agricultural and commercial trade that produced sugar, tobacco, rice & other products for international markets
What was the Print Revolution?
The Print Revolution was a change in the colonies and world where there was a widespread to the colonies and England of paper materials and supplies in order for the colonists to transport new ideas. The British government has the power to censor all printed materials. Parliament let the Licensing Act lapse, and the floodgates opened. Dozens of new print shops opened in London and Britain’s provincial cities.
Aristocrates/Gentry
Wealthy land owners that had very large estates and owned slaves to run their plantations.
Molasses Act
Britain made the prices of Molasses higher in France so then the colonies could not afford it because it was be snuck over
The Baptist Insurgency
The Baptist revival in the Chesapeake challenged customary authority in families and society but did not overturn it. Rejecting the pleas of evangelical women, Baptist men kept church authority in the hands of "free born male members”; and Anglican slaveholders retained control of the political system.
What is Salutary Neglect?
the unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on American colonies and trade
What was the Great awakening?
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that resulted in the spread of Pietism across the colonies, creating both religious diversities and controversies in the colonies
Priests
Leaders of the Churches that tried to spread religion
More denominations in the middle colonies compared to the North
(North typically Christianity, South religious diversity/freedom of religion)
What are the Navigation Acts?
Law that was made for the colonies where they could only trade with Britain
Pietism
Pietists were not allowed to speak in congregations (church meetings)
(A movement within Lutheranism that stresses personal faith over religious ritual and doctrine)
Define "Old Lights" & "New Lights"
OL: Those who were skeptical of the emotionalism and religious innovations during the Great Awakening, established churches (convervative and traditional)
NL: Embracing the new spirit-filled forms of worship and religious fervor (embracing new styles of religious worship, new ministers that challenge old systems)
What is the Enlightenment?
an intellectual movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that sought to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry
Poor whites/Yeomen
Poor white people who worked on farms to support their families, barely enough to provide for the family
African laws against women
Lower social class citizens would get sold or be enslaved African women enslaved to areas around Africa as workers or servants
The Presbyterian Revival
A democratization of religion challenged the dominance of both the Anglican Church and the planter elite. Seeking a deeper religious experience, Morris invited New Light Presbyterian Sam Davies to lead their prayer meetings. To halt the spread of New Light ideas. Along with threatening Virginias religious authority.