Believed all people have a right to life, liberty, and property; stated the government is "created by the people for the people"
Who is John Locke?
100
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
100
A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.
What is a mulatto?
100
A labor system where people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years.
What is indentured servitude?
200
A series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between the colonies and any country except Britain.
What are the Navigation Laws?
200
A group of English Reformed Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices.
Who are the Puritans?
200
Americans moved from subsistence farming to this. Growing crops for market rather than personal use.
What are cash crops?
200
The biggest deportation in history and a determining factor in the world economy of the 18th century. Millions of Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continent and sold as slaves
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
300
A series of bloody conflicts, occurring between 1640s and 1680s, during which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region.
What is the Beaver Wars?
300
An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of present day New Mexico.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
300
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
What is enlightenment?
300
A slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
400
Britain's unofficial policy to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
400
The first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa.
What is triangular trade?
400
Legal owning of people as actual property who could be bought, sold, traded or inherited.
What is chattel slavery?
500
An economic philosophy in which England established the colonies to provide raw materials to the Mother Country; the colonies received manufactured goods in return.
What is mercantilism?
500
A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites.
What is the casta system?
500
A spiritual renewal that swept the American Colonies, particularly New England.
What is the Great Awakening?
500
Part of the Triangle Trade
Africans were transported to the Americas, where they were traded for sugar and tobacco.