Life in the Colonies
Also known as the Age of Reason, this intellectual movement spread through the colonies as a result of Transatlantic print culture
What was the Enlightenment?
These were a series of British laws enacted from the mid-17th century to regulate colonial trade and ensure that the colonies' economic benefits flowed to Great Britain. Under mercantilist policy, the acts required colonial trade to be conducted on British-built and British-crewed ships, restricted trade to British ports, and listed certain "enumerated" colonial products that had to be shipped to England.
What are the Navigation Acts
This person was an enlightenment thinker that argued that citizens had a right and obligation to revolt against a government that failed to protect their rights
Who is John Locke?
This was a 3-part route that connected North America, Africa, and Europe
What is Transatlantic (Triangular) trade?
In the 18th century, Virginia and Massachusetts, the two biggest and oldest colonies became royal colonies, meaning they were taken over by this person.
What is the King?
The main religious group in New England that was often very intolerant of others' religious differences, drove out people like Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
Who were the Puritans?
This was the effort by the British crown to ensure better control of the New England colonies, which included uniting the colonies under this name
What was the Dominion of New England?
This person founded the Pennsylvania colony and joined the Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
The reduction of this practice was one of the causes of increased use of African Slaves
What is Indentured Servitude?
This was the first English colony in the New World
What is Jamestown
Very pacifist Protestant group committed to equality, pacifism, and truth, which led them to social reform movements like abolition and women's rights, and they founded Pennsylvania as a sanctuary for religious freedom.
Who were the Quakers?
a Protestant religious revival that swept through the American colonies from the 1730s to the 1740s, characterized by fervent, emotional preaching, emphasis on personal faith over rigid doctrine, and charismatic itinerant preachers like George Whitefield.
What was the Great Awakening?
This person led an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677 against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused this person's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
This is the name for crops produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. Example: tobacco, indigo, sugar.
What are cash crops?
These colonies made up the New England colonies.
What is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
a British policy in the 17th and 18th centuries where the crown intentionally allowed its American colonies to develop a sense of autonomy and self-governance by laxly enforcing British trade laws and regulations, which fostered self-reliance and self-governance in the colonies
What was salutary neglect?
This action occurred in the colonies: the process of adapting a person, place, or thing to become more English in form or character, through language, culture, or customs.
What is Anglicization?
Wampanoag Chief who led a large-scale conflict against English colonists and their allies in New England, and united several indigenous tribes to resist colonial encroachment and assert their sovereignty, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in American history
Who was Metacom, or King Philip?
This is a a business owned by its shareholders who can buy and sell shares freely, they were sometimes used to fund the foundation of colonies
What is a joint stock company
This revolt in the 1680s attempted to drive Spanish forces out of the New Spain region due to brutal treatment of the Natives.
What is the Pueblo Revolt
It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern Colonial era, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 African slaves killed.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Colonial legislatures created a race-based definition of slavery. The new laws created a strict racial system, prohibiting interracial relationships and defining the descendants of Black mothers as enslaved in perpetuity, thus guaranteeing a permanent labor supply.
What are slave codes?
the Puritan minister who ignited the Great Awakening by writing the famous pamphlet, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
An economic system in which the rules are set up to enrich the mother country through colonies
What is Mercantilism?
In Virginia, this was the first English representative assembly in the New World. These people made the laws in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses