Vocabulary
The economic theory that there should be more goods flowing out than flowing.
Mercantalism
Colonies established between 1660-1685 where proprietors of the colony were rulers.
Proprietary colonies
The Quaker that founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
William Penn
The movement of religious revival in the colonies.
The Great Awakening
What was the movement that emphasized reason and societal improvement?
The Enlightenment
Set of laws regarding trade in and out of England to achieve mercantilism.
The Navigation Acts
The colonies that made up the Chesapeake region.
Virginia and Maryland
The American Preacher who delivered the popular sermon called, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Johnathan Edwards
The religious group that believed that there is something of God in everyone.
The Religious Society of Friends AKA Quakers
The revolution that led to the widespread transfer of ideas.
The Print Revolution
The treaty that ended the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War.
The Treaty of Paris of 1763
The colony that was refuge for Quakers.
Pennsylvania
The group of people who formed in 1763 to defend themselves after the French and Indian War.
The Paxton Boys
The Evangelical Christian movement that stressed individual personal relationships with God.
Pietism
- Merchants
- Artisans & Shopkeepers
- Laborers
Informal British policy during the first half of the eighteenth century that allowed the American colonies considerable freedom to pursue their economic and political interests in exchange for colonial obedience. Initiated by Robert Walpole.
Salutary Neglect
The colony developed by England as a buffer zone between English and Spanish territories.
Georgia
Believing that a Supreme Being created the world but allowed it to be operated by natural laws, and didn't intervene with people's lives.
Deism
Parliament created this to oversee colonial affairs.
Alliance between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British Colonies of North America.
The Covenant Chain
What colonies made up the Dominion of New England?
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts Bay
- Plymouth
Who initiated the Glorious Revolution?
William of Orange
Who did the Baptist men keep church authority in the hands of?
Free-born male members
What is the name of the conference that proposed to place the colonies under a more centralized government, but failed?
The Albany Congress