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Unit 3
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 | rules for colonial trade that were first passed in 1650 |
| Old South | society that was created by massive influx of slaves in early 1700s |
| Task System | slave system in which slaves were give certain jobs to be completed in a day; after their jobs were done, they were allowed free time |
| Stono Rebellion | most violent slave revolt in history of 13 colonies (1739) |
| Triangular trade | part of mercantilist system; manufactured goods to Africa, slaves to Americas, raw materials to Europe |
| Middle Passage | route in triangular trade that took slaves from Africa to Americas |
| subsistence farming | farming to support a single family or small group; dominant in New England and southern colonies during colonial period |
| patriarchy | male domination of society |
| "backcountry" | term for area about 100 miles from coast; people generally clannish, violent, and prone to alcoholism |
| Paxton Boys | vigilante group in central Pennsylvania that murdered 20 peaceful Conestoga Indians in response to Pontiac's Rebellion (1763) |
| "established church" | church that was supported by a colony’s tax money (in colonies, both were Protestant) |
| Salem Witch Trials | significant because they signaled the end of Puritan radicalism in New England |
| 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 |
| Phyllis Wheatley | freed slave who became first published black American poet; wrote about slavery |
| Pueblo Revolt | revolt of Indians in the Spanish southwest colonies that was caused by Indian discontent with Christianity; crushed by Spanish brutality toward Indians |
| Middle Ground | term for area between Lake Erie and Lake Huron that neither British nor French controlled |
| indentured servitude | voluntary labor system in which people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer (who brought them over) for a certain amount of years |
| African chattel | slavery in which the slave is the personal property of the slaveowner and can be sold and traded |
| Atlantic World | term that refers to the interactions between the peoples and empires of the Atlantic Ocean rim starting in 1450; Triangular Trade took place here |
| Anglicization | the process of adopting English culture in the American colonies |
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