Colonial Governments
The annual tradition in New England towns where citizens voted on local issues.
Town meetings
The horrific voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
Most of the agricultural labor in the southern colonies was performed by this group.
Enslaved Africans
The Great Awakening was a series of these emotional public gatherings.
Religious revivals
Explain the Enlightenment
An intellectual movement that emphasized science and reason.
This person was appointed by the English monarch to lead a royal colony.
Governor
The network that carried goods and enslaved Africans between the colonies, the West Indies, and Britain.
Triangular Trade
Colonies that produced cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo.
Southern Colonies
This preacher toured the colonies and drew thousands with his sermons.
George Whitefield
The method that involves observation and experimentation to form theories.
Scientific method
This 1689 document reduced the English monarchy’s power after the Glorious Revolution.
English Bill of Rights
The economic system in which nations gain wealth by carefully controlling trade.
Mercantilism
Colonies that produced staple crops such as wheat, barley, and oats.
Middle Colonies
The Great Awakening began in this time period.
1730s and 1740s
This colonial scientist and inventor created bifocals, a stove, and published Poor Richard’s Almanack.
Ben Franklin
King James II united the northern colonies under one government called this.
The Dominion of New England
These English laws were designed to control colonial trade and enforce mercantilism.
Navigation Acts
The colonies known for fishing, shipbuilding, and small farms.
New England Colonies
This preacher is famous for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Jonathan Edwards
The poet who wrote On Being Brought from Africa to America.
Phillis Wheatley
The overthrow of King James II and rise of William and Mary is known as this event.
The Glorious Revolution
Some colonists protested English trade restrictions by doing this illegal activity.
Smuggling
This group of workers in the colonies made goods by hand and trained apprentices in skilled trades like blacksmithing, carpentry, and printing.
Artisans and craftspeople
Explain the ideas of "Old Light" vs "New Light"
Old Light believed that religion and your emotions were not always mixed. Did not believe that you had to have a conversion "moment." New Light relied on revivals and highly emotional preaching to "awaken" the spirit within people to re-dedicated themselves to Christ.
Explain two reasons how the Enlightenment has influenced the modern era.
Emphasis on science, inventions, democratic thought, reason, logic over supernatural thought, revolutions