Chapter 3: Vocab + Reading Question

Question 1

Proprietorships

Answer 1

A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group, who then set up a form of government largely independent from royal control.

Question 2

Quakers

Answer 2

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 both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.

Question 3

Navigation Acts

Answer 3

English laws passed, beginning in the 1650s and 1660s, requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants, shippers, and seamen.

Question 4

Dominion of New England

Answer 4

A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New York, and New Jersey into a single, vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights. James’s plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688, which removed him from the throne.

Question 5

Glorious Revolution

Answer 5

A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown ny 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.

Question 6

Constitutional Monarchy

Answer 6

A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.

Question 7

Tribalization

Answer 7

The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.

Question 8

Covenant Chain

Answer 8

The alliance of the Iroquois, first with the colony of New York, then with the British Empire and its other colonies. The Covenant Chain became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.

Question 9

Middle Passage

Answer 9

The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.

Question 10

Stono Rebellion

Answer 10

Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves, plundered six plantations, and killed more than 20 colonists. Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.

Question 11

Gentility

Answer 11

A 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.

Question 12

Salutary Neglect

Question 13

Patronage

Question 14

Land Banks

Question 15

Edmund Andros

Question 16

William of Orange

Question 17

John Locke

Question 18

Robert Walpole

Question 19

What was the South Atlantic System and how did it shape colonial society?

Question 20

How did the institution of slavery develop, and why did it develop differently in the Chesapeake, the Carolina low country, and the West Indies?