Colonies to Empire
This conflict in England lasted from 1642–1651 and contributed to a period of colonial independence from close English supervision.
What is the English Civil War?
This revolution in England resulted in the removal of the existing monarch and the elevation of Protestant rulers.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This powerful Native confederacy played an important role in the imperial struggles discussed in Chapter 3.
Who are the Iroquois?
This term describes the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
This colony is discussed alongside Virginia and Maryland as a major center of colonial slavery.
What is South Carolina?
Wealthy merchants, artisans, shopkeepers, and laborers were all groups found in this type of colonial society.
What is urban society?
This monarch restored the English monarchy in 1660, bringing an end to the colonies’ period of near-independence.
Who is Charles II?
These two Protestant monarchs came to the English throne following the Glorious Revolution.
Who are William III and Mary II?
European contact and warfare contributed to Native population decline and this process of political reorganization.
What is tribalization?
The system connecting England, the West Indies, Africa, and the American colonies is identified in the chapter as this economic system.
What is the South Atlantic System?
The development of families, relationships, traditions, and shared institutions among enslaved people represents this process.
What is building community?
Northern merchants became increasingly involved in commerce with these Caribbean colonies.
What are the West Indies?
The Carolinas and Pennsylvania were created during this period of renewed English colonial expansion.
What are the Restoration Colonies?
This English political thinker wrote Two Treatises on Government.
Who is John Locke?
Native warriors increasingly used these European items during imperial conflicts.
What are European weapons?
According to the chapter, slavery in Virginia and Maryland increasingly became defined by this characteristic.
What is race?
Enslaved people responded to slavery through both resistance and this other strategy discussed in the chapter.
What is accommodation?
This financial instrument was important to the growing northern maritime economy.
What are bills of exchange?
England adopted these trade laws as part of its effort to control colonial commerce.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Locke's Two Treatises on Government was published around this year.
What is 1690?
The Creeks, Mohawks, and Catholic Abenakis appear in the chapter as Native groups pursuing their own political and diplomatic ________.
What are goals?
The lecture identifies not only racial slavery but also this legally sanctioned method used to maintain the institution.
What is violence?
This major slave uprising is specifically identified in Chapter 3.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This British policy allowed the colonies considerable freedom from strict imperial supervision.
What is salutary neglect?
This political arrangement attempted to place several northern colonies under tighter centralized English control.
What is the Dominion of New England?
The Glorious Revolution influenced political developments not only in England but also led to these in the American colonies.
What are rebellions?
This 1713 agreement concluded the War of the Spanish Succession and reshaped imperial relationships.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
The diagram on page 16 shows that the majority of Africans transported across the Atlantic did not arrive in British North America. Name one major destination shown on the diagram.
What are Brazil, the West Indies, Spanish Central America, Dutch America, or Europe?
Henretta describes enslaved communities in South Carolina using this term because continued African immigration strengthened African cultural influences.
What is “Re-Africanized”?
According to the lecture, salutary neglect helped increase the power of these colonial political institutions.
What are provincial/colonial representative assemblies?