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APUSH LT#3 Period 3 Nathan Raymundo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Freedom Dues | This was what a indentured servant would receive when they were done serving their term with their master. It consisted of land, possessions, and/or money. It was one of the few ways an indentured servant could progress in life. |
| Middle Passage | The brutal sea route from Africa to the Americas in the 18th century and early 19th century. It transported enslaved Africans to the Americas where they would endure a harsh life. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | An uprising of frontiersmen led by Bacon against Berkeley and rich planters. After this event, landed planters retained their dominance by curbing corruption and appointed ambitious yeomen to public office. |
| Stono Rebellion | The largest slave uprising in America prior to the American Revolution. This rebellion failed and frightened whites cut slave imports and tightened plantation discipline. |
| Slave Codes | These were laws in each U.S. state that defined the status of slaves and the rights of their masters. These codes gave power over African slaves. |
| Civil Death | The loss of a citizen's privileges through life in prison, banishment, and in other ways. It was used on people who committed serious crimes. |
| Harvard College | It is America's oldest school for higher learning. It pioneered the liberal arts and the students could choose from a range of electives. |
| Half-Way Covenant | This was a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was created because some people felt that the English colonists were drifting away from their original religious purpose. This led to the First Great Awakening. |
| Salem Witch Trials | A period of time were over one hundred people were accused and tried for witchcraft. 19 of which died. After this event, officials now discouraged legal prosecutions for witchcraft and more people embraced the Enlightenment. |
| Enlightenment | Was a intellectual movement that began around 1675 and promoted a rational, scientific view of the world. This movement made people look for a scientific explanation of the world rather than a religious one. |
| John Locke | He was an enlightenment thinker who said that people had natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and people have the right to change government policies or the form of their government. |
| Sir Isaac Newton | He was an enlightenment thinker who was able to explain the movement of the planets around the sun and discovered the laws of motion and gravity. It undermined the traditional Christian understanding of the cosmos. |
| Deism | The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws. Many Founding Fathers held this belief such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He was an exemplar of the American Enlightenment. He popularized the practical outlook of the Enlightenment and contributed greatly in the science field. He helped inspired the first significant nonreligious periodicals. |
| Great Awakening | This was a Christian revitalization movement that appealed to people's hearts rather than their minds. It undermined the authority of all ministers. |
| Jonathan Edwards | He was a religious preacher who restored the Puritans' spiritual zeal to Congregational churches in the Connecticut River Valley. He stimulated religious fervor up and down the Connecticut River Valley. |
| George Whitefield | He was an English minister. He transformed the local revivals of Edwards and the Tenants into a Great Awakening. |
| Old Lights | They were conservative ministers. They condemned the New Lights and tried to silence them |
| New Lights | They were people who were affected by and followed Whitefield's Great Awakening. They were eager to spread Whitefield's message. |
| Fort Duquesne | This was an area of defeat of the British forces. French and Indian soldiers defeated 1,500 British regulars and militiamen, and killed British commander General Edward Braddock. Eventually the French were forced out of this fort. |
| French and Indian War | This was a war to expand British territory. This war resulted in a commercial and colonial empire for Great Britain that was nearly worldwide. |
| Albany Plan of Union | This was intended to counter French expansion. It called for a continental assembly to manage trade, Indian policy, and defense in the West but the British ministry were afraid that it would spark demands for independence. |
| General Edward Braddock | He was the general leading an attack on Fort Duquesne. He was ambushed and killed by French and Indian forces while marching to the fort. |
| William Pitt | He was the architect of the British war effort in the French and Indian War. He paid for the cost of the troops and supplied them with arms and equipment and committed a British fleet and 30,000 soldiers to the conflict in America. |
| Paris Peace Settlement of 1763 | This treaty confirmed British victory in the Seven Years' War. It granted British rule over half the continent of North America, Spanish Florida,and the recent conquests of Africa and India. |
| Acadians | they were French settlers who were deported from Nova Scotia (Acadia). Some went to Louisiana where they were to be known as Cajuns. English and Scottish protestants took over the farms the French Catholics left behind. |
| Pontiac’s Rebellion | This was a rebellion to encourage the French to return and to rid all the white invaders. This rebellion would later fail and Pontiac and his allies accepted the British as their political fathers. In return, the British issued the Proclamation of 1763. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | This proclamation prohibited white settlements west of the Appalachians. The colonists would later ignore this and was a start to social unrest in the colonies that would lead to revolution. |
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