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us history 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| a colony under direct control of the king | Royal Colony |
| a wealthy Englishman and a well-to-do tobacco planter who led a rebellion against Virginia’s colonial government | Nathaniel Bacon |
| a religious revival that lasted throughout the 1730s and 1740s | Great Awakening |
| a minister, one member of the clergy who sought to revive the intensity and commitment of the original Puritan vision; he led the Great Awakening | Jonathan Edwards |
| the theory which held that a country’s ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and that all countries were in competition to acquire the most gold and silver | Mercantilism |
| a series of laws, beginning in 1651, passed by Parliament restricting trade to another nation | Navigation Acts |
| English officials only lightly enforced the new measures as they settled into an overall colonial policy that became known as _________. | Salutary neglect |
| one grown primarily for sale rather than for a farmer’s own use | Cash crop |
| a three-way trading network described as the triangular trading process: merchants carried rum and other goods from New England to Africa; in Africa they traded their merchandise for enslaved people | Triangular trade |
| the voyage that brought Africans to the West Indies and later to North America, known as the middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle | Middle passage |
| a movement that had a profound effect on social and political thought in the colonies and spread; it embraced the notion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reasoning | Enlightenment |
| snake | Join or Die |
| one of the leading champions of Enlightenment ideals in America | Benjamin Franklin |
| the French colony in North America | New France |
| an uprising that began on a September Sunday in 1739, when about 20 slaves gathered at the Stono River southwest of Charles Town | Stono Rebellion |
| an ambitious 22-year-old officer who established an outpost called Fort Necessity | George Washington |
| the fourth war between Great Britain and France for control of North America | French and Indian War |
| banned all settlement west of the Appalachians, which the British could not enforce this ban | Proclamation of 1763 |
| a law enacted in 1764; it halved the duty on foreign-made molasses, placed enforcement of the law in a more sympathetic vice-admiralty colonial court, and strengthened the enforcement of duties on certain imports | Sugar Act |
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