Colonial Government
First elected legislative assembly in the New World
House of Burgesses (1619)
Religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England
Puritans
Land grant system that game settlers land for bringing others to Virginia
Headright System
Forced transport of Africans to the Americas for labor
Atlantic Slave Trade
Belief in individual rights, liberty, and government protection of freedoms
Liberalism
People who separated from, or opposed, the dominant religious practices
Dissenters
British laws requiring colonial trade to go through England or English ships
Navigation Acts
Large farms in the South using slave labor to grow cash crops.
Plantation
Political ideology valuing citizen participation and opposition to monarchy
Republicanism
Pacifist religious group promoting equality and inner light.
Society of Friends (Quakers)
The British government's policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in its American colonies from the 1600s to the 1700s
Salutary Neglect
Brutal sea journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
Middle Passage
Agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims in 1620
Enlightenment belief in a rational God who doesn't intervene in human affairs
Deism
Allowed partial church membership for Puritans' children to keep churches full
Half-Way Covenant
1739 slave uprising in South Carolina; led to stricter slave laws.
Stono Rebellion
Benjamin Franklin's 1754 proposal for a united colonial goernment
Albany Plan of Union (1754)
Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Economic theory that colonies exist to enrich the mother country through trade.
Mercantilism
Small landowning farmers, especially in the South, who worked their own land