Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 Flashcards
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Metacom
A Wampanoag leader, called King Philip by colonists, who was the mastermind behind a 1675 uprising against settlers known as King Philip’s War.
King Philip’s War
Beginning in 1675, an uprising against white colonists by Indians. A multi-year conflict, the end result was broadened freedoms for white New Englanders and the dispossession of the region’s Indians.
mercantilist system
A theory that government should regulate economic activity as to promote national power
Navigation Acts
Passed by the English Parliament to control colonial trade and bolster the mercantile system, 1650 to 1775; enforcement of the acts led to growing resentment by colonists.
Covenant Chain
An alliance formed by Sir Edmund Andros, in which the imperial ambitions of the English and Indians reinforced one another in New York.
Yamasee uprising
An uprising in Carolina by Indians sparked by fears over trade debts owed to colonists.
Society of Friends (Quakers)
Religious group in England and America whose members believed all persons possessed the inner light or spirit of God; they were early proponents of abolition of slavery and equal rights for women.
sugar
The chief crop produced by slaves in the Western Hemisphere during the eighteenth century.
Las Siete Partidas
A series of Spanish laws granting slaves certain rights relating to marriage, the holding of property, and access to freedom.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Unsuccessful 1676 revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia governor William Berkeley’s administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkeley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands.
slave code
Enacted in 1705 by the House of Burgesses, this legislation created the provision of white supremacy over slaves and blacks.
Anglicanism
The Church of England
Glorious Revolution
A coup engineered by a small group of aristocrats that led to William of Orange taking the British throne in place of James II
English Bill of Rights
Enacted in 1689 by Parliament; listed parliamentary powers such as control over taxation as well as rights of individuals, including trial by jury.
Lords of Trade
Established in 1675 by England to oversee colonial affairs.
Dominion of New England
Consolidation into a single colony of the New England colonies, and later New York and New Jersey, by royal governor Edmund Andros in 1686; dominion reverted to individual colonial governments three years later.
English Toleration Act
A law of 1690 that allowed all Protestants to worship freely.
Salem witch trials
A crisis of trials and executions in Salem, Massachusetts, that came about from anxiety over witchcraft in 1692.
redemptioners
A term for indentured families.
Walking Purchase
A fraudulent transaction in 1737 whereby Pennsylvania Governor James Logan acquired a large tract of land by hiring runners to mark land; the Lenni Lanape Indians had agreed to cede land that a man could walk in thirty-six hours.
backcountry
An area stretching from central Pennsylvania southward through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and into upland North and South Carolina.
'’cousinocracy’’
A term referring to the tight-knit and intermarried nature of the Virginia upper class.
