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Unit 2, Part 2
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mercantilism | economic system in which the purpose was to enrich the mother country by creating a favorable balance of trade that would increase supply of bullion (gold/silver) |
| Navigation Acts | mercantilist laws that regulated colonial trade and were first passed in 1650 |
| Old South | society that was created by massive influx of slaves in early 1700s |
| Stono Rebellion | most violent slave revolt in history of 13 colonies (1739); slaves rebelled in South Carolina and tried to get to Florida |
| Triangular trade | part of mercantilist system; manufactured goods to Africa, slaves to Americas, raw materials to Europe |
| "backcountry" | term for area about 100 miles from coast; people generally clannish, violent, and prone to alcoholism |
| Great Awakening | emotional religious revival during the 1730s and 1740s amongst ALL colonies |
| Jonathan Edwards | his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" started the Great Awakening |
| George Whitefield | credited with spreading the ideas of the Great Awakening in colonies |
| African chattel | slavery in which the slave is the personal property of the slaveowner and can be sold and traded |
| Anglicization | the process of adopting English culture in the American colonies |
| salutary neglect | British policy of not always enforcing Navigation Acts from late 1650s to 1754 |
| Bacon's Rebellion | revolt amongst backcountry farmers in Virginia against wealthy elites on coast |
| Iroquois | they allied with the British for trade and because they believed Brits would stop colonial expansion west |
| Metacom's War | conflict over English expansion into New England |
| Pueblo Revolt | Native-American revolt against Spanish in southwest in 1680 |
| Quakers | hey founded Pennsylvania and influenced it with their tolerance |
| Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Law | said no new slaves could be imported into the colony and all newborns would be born free |
| Charleston | largest slave port in colonial America |
| Fort Mose | settlement of freed slaves in Spanish Florida |
| maroon | former slave who had escaped |
| Gullah | "slave" language that combined English and native African languages |
| Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island |
| Ben Franklin | example of Enlightened American thinker; spread English through printing |
| popular sovereignty | Enlightened political idea that said power is derived from the consent of the people |
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