Great Awakening
What was being awakened during the Great Awakening?
Protestant religious beliefs
Natural Rights of Man (Life, Liberty, Property)
John Locke
Type of economic system that was set up to control colonial trade.
Mercantilism
What year did the first slave ship arrive in British North America (Jamestown).
1619
Land to establish a colony given to a group of investors.
joint-stock colony
Baptist or Methodist
Freedom of religious worship.
Voltaire
What institution dominated daily life in the New England colonies?
The Congregational Church a.k.a. the Puritan church.
True or False, slavery existed in all of the 13 colonies.
True
Land to establish a colony given to an individual or a small group to settle as they see fit.
proprietary colony
Why was the Great Awakening considered a democratizing force in colonial America?
Brought social classes together under one tent. Brought religion to the people instead of the other way around. More than just religion was discussed.
Unalienable Rights (Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness).
Thomas Jefferson/John Adams
Life in the Chesapeake and Southern Atlantic colonies centered around these establishments . . . .
Plantations
What system of coerced labor was eventually replaced by African slavery?
Indentured Servitude
Land to establish a colony run by a governor appointed by the crown.
Name one of the two pre-eminent iterant preachers of the Great Awakening.
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
Social Contract
John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseau
What nickname was given to the Middle Colonies because they produced so much grain products that feed the colonies.
The Breadbasket Colonies
Give me an example of PASSIVE resistance and ACTIVE resistance when it came to African slavery.
Answers will very.
PASSIVE - slow work, fake illness, tool breakage, crop spoiling
ACTIVE - running away, rebellion, murder, arson, revolt
What is salutary neglect and how did it contribute to the eventual splitting of the 13 colonies from Britain?
Answer will vary - a policy of neglect to protect the British Crown financially, it built a sense of independence and liberty through self-rule.
What were the two competing religious groups of the Great Awakening? One representing the conservative view of religion in the colonies and the other representing the liberal view.
Old Lights vs. New Lights
Separation of Power (Three Branches of Government)
Baron von Montesquieu
What region in colonial America started drifting away from England first and why?
New England region because the strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts hurt them disproportionately.
Define chattel slavery.
Generational slavery, slavery in perpetuity, slaves and all of their offspring are slaves moving forward.
Name of the uprising that highlighted the inherent dangers of indentured servitude as a model of coerced labor.
Bacon's Rebellion