Slavery in the Americas & Jamestown
Spanish and Portuguese decided to use this as another source of labor.
What are slaves?
Someone in debt
What is a debtor?
A legislature having two houses
What is bicameral?
An army of amateur soldiers, put together in a time of need
What is a militia?
A formal expression of an opinion
What is a resolution?
An alliance between sovereign states
What is a confederacy?
Forced to leave or no longer welcome
What is banished?
the legislative body of Great Britain
What is a Parliament?
Priests who aimed to convert native people to Catholicism
Who are Jesuits?
Local militia that could be ready in a minute
Who are the Minutemen?
A citizen representative in local government
What is a Burgess?
The first written constitution in North America
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
A religious movement led by traveling ministers in the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
In 1764 lowered taxes on molasses that were brought into the colonies, hoping to minimize smuggling
What is the Sugar Act?
Rule by an often harsh absolute power
What is tyranny?
Though they varied from colony to colony, they all considered slaves as property and granted them almost no rights.
What are Slave Codes?
A covenant agreeing to obey "just and equal laws" created for the "general good of the colony"
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A philosophical movement that emphasized human reason
What is Enlightenment?
These were known as the Intolerable Acts
What are the Coercive Acts?
What is the Common Sense?
This legislative body held its first annual assembly in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
It was originally a line of rocks laid down to mark the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland
What is the Mason Dixon line?
The publisher of the New York Weekly Journal
Who is John Peter Zenger?
Formally ended the Seven Year's War in 1763 when Britain and France signed this.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Considered one last shot at peace
What is the Olive Branch Petition?