Quiz 4 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Short-term of Atlantic Slave Trade?
Supplied labor for sugar, tobacco, and rice plantations.
Long-term the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Created deep racial hierarchies, shaped global economies, and devastated African societies.
How does the Atlantic Slave Trade compare to indentured servitude?
Unlike indentured servitude, it was race-based and lifelong.
What was The Great Awakening?
Religious revival movement 1730s–1740s led by preachers Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. Challenged authority of religious hiarchy. Personal faith.
Challenged established churches, emphasized emotional faith.
What was the short-term of Great Awakening?
Challenged established churches, emphasized emotional faith.
What was the long-term of The Great Awakening?
Helped fuel ideas of equality, freedom of choice, and later revolutionary thought.
What was the French and Indian War?
Conflict between Britain and France (1754–1763) for control of North America.
Britain gained Canada; massive war debt led to colonial taxes.
short-term significance French and Indian War?
Britain gained Canada; massive war debt led to colonial taxes.
Long-term French and Indian War?
Sparked colonial unrest >:( , directly leading to the American Revolution.
What is Revolutionary Republicanism?
A political philosophy valuing liberty, virtue, and opposition to tyranny. Modern democracy
Grew as a response to British overreach in the colonies.
short-term significance of Revolutionary Republicanism?
response to British overreach in the colonies.
long-term significance of Revolutionary Republicanism?
foundational principle of the American Revolution and Constitution.
How does Revolutionary Republicanism compare to monarchy-based systems?
More modern than monarchy-based systems of the time.
What is the Middle Passage?
The brutal voyage enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic.
Theme: Human suffering, systemic racism, and forced migration.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
Largest slave uprising in British mainland colonies (South Carolina).
Biggest Slave resistance in colonies!
Theme: Resistance to slavery, repression of black rights, stricter slave codes.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
Founder of Georgia place for poor and indebted English people to start over
a defensive zone to protect florida from the spanish.
Theme: Colonial experimentation, anti-slavery roots (at first), Enlightenment ideals.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Wrote foundation of american democracy.
Theme: Reason and civic improvement; helped shape colonial and revolutionary identity.
Who was John Peter Zenger?
New York printer tried (1735) for libel against governor; acquitted. If you are critizing the crown as long as its true u can’t go to jai.
Theme: Early win for press freedom; foreshadowed Bill of Rights.
What is Deism?
God who doesn’t interfere with human affairs.
Theme: Enlightenment-era approach to religion; many founders were deists.
Who was Junípero Serra?
Spanish missionary who established California missions. Native American conversation
Theme: Catholic conversion efforts and indigenous displacement.
What was Salutary Neglect?
loosely enforcing colonial laws, especially trade rules. This allowed American colonies to govern themselves and grow economically. Colonists became used to political and economic independence. When Britain later tried to tighten control, it led to resentment and helped spark the American Revolution.
Theme: Allowed colonial autonomy; its end triggered unrest.
What was Pontiac’s Rebellion?
Native resistance against British rule after the French & Indian War.
Theme: Native resistance, British expansion, and colonial-Native tension.
What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
British ban on settlement west of Appalachians.
Theme: Frustrated colonists and contributed to revolutionary resentment.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
Ben Franklin’s plan to unify colonies for defense.
Theme: Early step toward colonial unity; rejected then, influential later.
