religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
100
Restricted trade of sugar and cotton from the Colonies to England only using English ships to transport goods
What are the Navigation Acts?
100
Native American leader who opposed colonists' efforts to take his people's land
Who is Metacomet AKA King Philip
100
Came up with slogan "No Taxation without Representation"
Who are Samuel Adams and James Otis?
200
center of politics in New England was this where people talked about and decided on issues of local interest
What is the town meeting?
200
one of most important leaders of the Great Awakening
Who is Jonathon Edwards?
200
system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What is triangular trade?
200
Tensions between colonial militia and American Indian warriors erupted as both sides attached each other's settlements, killing men, women, and children.
What is King Philip's War?
200
Group members got in touch with other towns and colonies and shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.
What is Committees of Correspondence?
300
King James united the northern colonies under one government
What is Dominion of New England?
300
dramatic sermons that told people to seek forgiveness for their sins or face punishment in Hell forever
What is a revival?
300
illegal trading to avoid paying taxes
What is smuggling?
300
snowball fight turned ugly
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
First Act that taxed colonists directly
What is the Stamp Act?
400
This Act reduced the powers of the English monarch
What is English Bill of Rights?
400
movement that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society
What is Enlightenment?
400
Millions of Africans were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in horrible conditions to be sold as slaves
What is Middle Passage?
400
As a result of this act, Britain passed the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
What is Boston Tea Party?
400
After tax collectors seized the ship Liberty, they attacked the houses of custom officials
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
500
controlled local affairs, and protected individual freedoms
What is the Colonial Court?
500
Enlightenment leader who thought people had natural rights such as equality and liberty
Who is John Locke?
500
system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade
What is mercantilism?
500
France gave Canada to Britain, all French lands east of Mississippi River except New Orleans. Spain gave England Florida
What is Treaty of Paris?
500
Closed Boston Harbor, canceled Massachusetts's charter, appointed Thomas Gage as new Governor of Massachusetts