Chapter 3 Flashcards
(15 cards)
proprietorship
A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group, who then set up a form of govt largely independent from royal control
Quakers
Epithet for members of the Society of Friends. Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an “inner light” and that neither ministers nor the Bible was essential to discovering God’s Word put them in conflict with the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
Navigation Acts
English Law beginning in 1650 and 1660 certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned mostly by English sailors to benefit English merchants, shippers and seaman
Dominion of New England
Royal Province created by King James II in 1686- absorbed Conneticut, RI, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, NY, NJ into single vast colony. Eliminated assemblies and charter rights.
Glorious Revolution
Nearly bloodless coup in 1688 when James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange. Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the declaration of rights creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
constitutional monarchy
monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution
Second Hundred Years’ War
An era of warfare beginning w/ the war of the League of Ausburg in 1689 lasting until Napoleons defeat at Waterloo in 1815. England fought in 7 major wars during that time. Longest era of peace lasted only 26 years
tribalization
The adaption of stateless people to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states. (80)
Covenant Chain
The alliance of the Iroquois, first with the colony of New York then the British Empire and its other countries. Became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples. (81)
South Atlantic System
Agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice were ruled and other tropical and subtropical products for the international market. Plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
Middle Passage
Brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly 2 million enslaved Africans
Stono Rebellion
Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves, plundered 6 plantations, and killed more than 20 colonists. Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion
gentility
Refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well to do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700
salutary neglect
describes British colonial policy during the reigns of George I (1714-1727) and George II (1727-1760) By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs, royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-govt in North America
patronage
Power of elected officials to grant govt jobs and favors to their supporters; also the jobs and favors themselves
