The trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods between Britain, West Africa, West Indies.
What is the triangular trade?
100
In the 1730s, Puritan beliefs had declined and people were upset about the decline in religious piety. This event was a sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
100
These were people who could not afford passage to the colonies. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, they would serve that person for a set length of time (hint: usually seven years) and then would be free.
What is an indentured servant?
100
In 1676 when angry former indentured servants, mostly from West VA resented East planters. They were poor, had little land and were angered by the lack of response to Indian attacks.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
100
This was founded on May 14, 1607 by members of the Virginia company and John Smith helped found and govern it. It is commonly regarded as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.
What is Jamestown?
200
These regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy. The acts restricted trade between England and its colonies to English or colonial ships.
What are the Navigation Acts?
200
It was an age of optimism, tempered by the realistic recognition of the sad state of the human condition and the need for major reforms. At its core was a critical questioning of traditional institutions, customs, and morals.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
This man described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. He also invented the reflecting telescope.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
200
The first American constitution, it used Puritans' self-governing religious congregation as the model for its political structure.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
The region of Virginia and Maryland. In contrast to New England, this region was distinguished by indentured servants, cash crops, and African slavery.
What is the Chesapeake?
300
This act stopped north American trade with the French West Indies. This was a result of the British west Indian planters that were losing profit because people bought cheap french molasses instead.
What is the Molasses Act of 1733?
300
A series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused who were not formally pursued by the authorities.
What is the Salem Witch trials?
300
This was a system of bondage in which a person has the legal status of property and can be bought and sold like property.
What is chattel slavery?
300
This was the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
For freedom of worship and to escape persecution from England and the ruling class.
What are the reasons for puritan migration?
400
Africans were transported to the Americas, where they were traded for sugar and tobacco.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
This puritan spiritual adviser went beyond Bible study to proclaiming boldly facets of her own theological interpretations, some of which offended colony leadership. After great controversy and an arduous trial before a jury, eventually she was banished from her colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
This is a navigation instrument that measured the degree of altitude of celestial bodies.
What is a sextant?
400
The purpose of this was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North America. The English ceased practicing this following British victory in the French and Indian War.
What is salutary neglect?
400
This was a social hierarchy based on how European you were. Wealth, education, and physical appearance helped determine how an individual might be viewed.
What is Casta System?
500
Economic philosophy or practice in which England established the colonies to provide raw materials to the Mother Country; the colonies received manufactured goods in return.
What is Mercantilism?
500
This act granted all Christians the right to follow their own religious beliefs and hold church services.
What is the Toleration Act (1649)?
500
An american public official, writer, scientist, and printer. After the success of his Poor Richard's Almanac (1732-1757), he entered politics. In 1849, he invented the lightening rod.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This is a less powerful Dutch company which maintained profitable enterprises in the Caribbean. Specifically interested in raiding ships and captured a fleet of Spanish treasure ships with goods.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
500
These were developed by the Puritans of New England from 1646 to 1675 in an effort to convert the local Native American tribes to Christianity.