Term | Definition |
Indentured Servant | Individual who agreed to work without wages for period of in exchange for transportation to the colonies |
Triangular Trade | Three-way pa ttern of trade that involved England |
Middle Passage | The forced transport of enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas |
Magna Carta | English Document from 1215 that limited the power of the king and provided basic rights to citizens |
Parliament | Legislative body of a country |
English Bill of Rights | Documents signed in 1682 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens |
Habeas Corpus | Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed |
Salutary Neglect | British policy in early 1700s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as l ong as Great Britan was gaining economically |
Mercantilism | Economic policy under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than imports |
Navigation Acts | The British trade laws enhanced by Parliament during the mid-1700s that regulated colonial Commerce |
Enlightenment | Eighteenth-century movement during which European philosopher believed that society's problems could be solved by reason and science |
Staple crop | Crops that are in steady demand |
Cash crop | Crops grown for sale |
Dame school | Elementary school during colonial times |
French and Indian War | War fought from 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its Indian allies |
Proclamation of 1763 | Declaration by the British king ordered all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains |
Albany plan of Union | Benjamin Franklin's 1754 proposal to create one Government 13 colonies |
Charter | Legal Document gibing certain rights to a person or company |
Joint Stock Company | A company run by a group of investors who share the company's profits and losses |
House of Burgesses | Representative assembly of colonial Virgina Formed in 1619 |
Royal Colony | English colony that was under direct control of the crown |
Proprietary colony | English colony granted to an individual or group by the crown |
Puritans | English protestants who believed in strict religious discipline and simplification of worship; settlers of the Massachusetts bay colony |
Separatists | Groups who wished to separate from the Anglican church to begine there own churches |
Pilgrims | English Puritans who sought religious freedom and founded Plymouth |
Mayflower Compact | Framework for self-government of the Plymouth colony signed on the ship the Mayflower in 1620 |
Push Factor | Factors that motivate people to leave their home countries |
Pull Factor | Factors that attract people to a new location |
Great awakening | Religious movement in the English colonies during the 1730's and 1740's which was heavily inspired evangelical preachers |
Lord Baltimore | * Founded and owned Maryland
* Founded it as a refuge for Catholics |