Social
Accusation, trial, and execution of individuals practicing witchcraft
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
A 1636-1637 conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of New England colonies, including Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook, along with their Native American allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.
Crops consumed as a primary source of diet.
What where staple crops?
Political theory in 18th century England & America that celebrated active participation in public life by economically independent citizens as central to freedom.
What are Republicans?
A slave uprising in 1739 in South Carolina.
What is Stono's Rebellion?
A leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its first governor.
Who is John Winthrop?
A series of religious revivals, with expressive preaching and personal piety with a direct relationship of God
What was the first Great Awakening?
An agricultural enterprise that brought together large numbers of workers under the control of a single owner.
What are Plantations?
Originally, political philosophy that emphasized the protection of liberty by limiting the power of government to interfere with the natural rights of citizens; in the twentieth century, belief in an activist government promoting greater social and economic equality.
What are Liberals?
Fought between French and English forces with their native American allies
What is the French and Indian War?
Religious group that sought to purify the Church of England from Catholic practices.
What are Puritains?
A brutal sea voyage endured by African slaves
What was Middle Passage?
Theory that the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.
What is Mercantilism?
An agreement signed by the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower to establish a self-governing colony (democracy)
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A christian member of a religious society, devoted to peaceful principles.
What is the Society of Friends?/
What are Quakers?
Philosophical belief of a non-interventionist God.
What is Deism?
The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America established in the virginia colony in 1619
What is the House of Burgesses?
Small landowners (the majority of white families in the Old South) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves.
What are Yoeman Farmers?
Proposal made in 1754 by Benjamin Franklin to create a unified government for the 13 colonies for defense and coordination.
Albany Plan of Union
Ensured religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Maryland.
What is the Act Concerning Religion (or Maryland Toleration Act)?
From Britain, banned settlement west of the Appalachian mountains to stabilize native relationships and control expansion.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
An armed rebellion by Virginia Settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677, involving settlers vs. Indians.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
A series of laws enacted by the British Parliament that aimed to regulate trade between England, its colonies, and foreign nations.
What were the Navigation Acts?
Allowed American economies to govern them self with little intervention.
What is Salutary neglect?
The rights and freedoms guaranteed to English subjects, including trial by jury and protected from unjustified arrest.
What is English Liberty?