religious revival in the Virginia colony, led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. One popular sermon by Edward's during this revival was "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
What is The Great Awakening
100
this was created when the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly. It was to encourage English craftsman settlers
What is House of Burgesses, 1619
100
A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the Spanish colonial period.
What is Casta System
100
Thousands of puritans traveled to America bringing their religion and farm practices with them
What is The Great Migration
100
The devastating voyage slaves took to the new world in overcrowded ships.
What is Middle Passage
200
A European intellectual movement emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily Influenced by John Locke and Newton and a prominent figure was Voltaire.
What is The Enlightenment
200
Royal Bureaucrat's relaxed their supervision with internal colonial affairs because they had growing tax receipts
What is Salutary Neglect
200
a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent
What is Mulatto
200
labor system where young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years
What is Indentured Servants
200
This trade shipped goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves who were being shipped to the West Indies in exchange for sugare
What is Triangular Trade
300
A puritan woman who was banished to Rhode Island for accusing Boston clergymen of putting too much stress on good works and because her belief in divine truth which was against the magistrates
What is Anne Hutchinson
300
The first written framework of government created by the pilgrims
What is Mayflower Compact
300
Had lots of rich soil, which was allowing the area to become a major exporter of wheat and other grains. This area referred to as the "breadbasket"
What is Middle colonies
300
Slaves who were property that were bought, sold, traded, or inherited
What is Chattel Slavery
300
This act excluded Dutch merchants from the English colonies and required goods to pass through England
What is The Navigation acts of 1651
400
This colony was established by Cecil Calvert as a safe haven to Roman Catholics who were persecuted in England
What is Maryland
400
was founded to give the English territorial claims to America as well as to offer a colonial market for trade.
What is Virginia
400
Created by Puritans and were meant to convert indian tribes to Christianity
What is Praying towns
400
This navigational instrument measured the degree of altitude and was first used around the 1730s
What is Sextant
400
These people migrated from North Ireland and were mostly Protestant and German Catholics escaping persecution
What is Scotch-Irish
500
This act granted all Christians the right to follow their own religious beliefs and hold church services.This was persuaded by Lord Baltimore because of the anti Catholic restlestness
What is Maryland Act of Toleration
500
Promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers.
What is Mercantilism
500
The English colonies refined but elaborate lifestyle. A rise of Southern gentry
What is Gentility
500
After the molasses act, American Merchants began to illegally bring in French molasses by bribing officials
What is Smuggle
500
Mainland colonies could export fish and farm products to the French Islands, however it caused high tariffs for the french syrup product