unit 2

Question 1

great awakening

Answer 1

religious revival in the colonies that brought people back to church. new lights helped create religious devotion and enthusiasm.

Question 2

new lights and old lights

Answer 2

support the great awakening. believe they are saving people.
do not support the great awakening. believe people are going for entertainment.

Question 3

johnathan edwards

Answer 3

first great awakening preacher.

Question 4

george whitefield

Answer 4

preacher in the great awakening. message of grace through Jesus Christ.

Question 5

enlightenment

Answer 5

philosophical movement of questioning, discoveries, and reasoning.

Question 6

deism

Answer 6

believe God created a perfect universe than had no more influence. believed there was reason in nature and in natural laws as God made everything perfect.

Question 7

king george’s war

Answer 7

fights between french and english colonists. england’s peace treaty leads to colonists being frustrated with england for one of the first times.

Question 8

mercantilism

Answer 8

more exports than imports for profit.

Question 9

navigation acts

Answer 9

series of laws limiting colonists trade and giving more benefits to the british government.

Question 10

molasses act

Answer 10

first real tax in the colonies. goal is to stop colonies from buying french molasses by adding tax to all non-british molasses.

Question 11

check and balance

Answer 11

no one branch has more power than the other.

Question 12

pueblo revolt


Answer 12

pueblo people get angry with spanish treatment so they kill and attack spaniards. they panic and move to santa fe where pueblo lay siege so they flee to mexico. return 12 years later with much more respect (more than the english).

Question 13

predestination

Answer 13

the puritan belief that God predisposes whether a person shall be saved or damned.

Question 14

john smith


Answer 14

saves jamestown by taking leadership. “those who shall not work shall not eat.”

Question 15

john rolfe


Answer 15

saves jamestown the second time because it was making no profit before he found harvesting of tobacco in 1616.

Question 16

elizabeth key


Answer 16

fought for and eventually won her freedom. then a virginia statute was created declaring that a child’s freedom depends on their mother’s.

Question 17

tribute colonies


Answer 17

mexico and peru. relied initially on native people’s wealth and labor.

Question 18

plantation colonies


Answer 18

produced sugar and other tropical crops by bound labor.

Question 19

neo-europes


Answer 19

approximate economies and social structures from home.

Question 20

the act for the better ordering and governing of negroes

Answer 20

in 1661, established on the islands. established that enslaved people would be treated as chattel property. black code.

Question 21

pilgrim

Answer 21

protestants seeking separation from the church of england. led by william bradford, also the second governor of plymouth.

Question 22

puritan

Answer 22

protestants that did not separated from the church of england but hoped to purify it of catholicism. belief that God is good, people are bad, predestination, and visible saints.

Question 23

john winthrop


Answer 23

led the puritan exodus, founded the massachusetts bay colony, developed the idea of city upon a hill.

Question 24

roger williams


Answer 24

banished in 1636 because he supported toleration, praised the pilgrims’ for their separation, wanted more separation of church and state, and questioned the puritan seizure of native land. he and his followers founded providence and obtained rhode island in 1644.

Question 25

yeoman societies


Answer 25

puritan colonizers wanted to live close together in self-governing societies to escape their past lives. middle class.

Question 26

mayflower compact


Answer 26

set up a self government for the plymouth colony, first agreement for self government in america.

Question 27

indentured servant


Answer 27

a person whose voyage is paid for, then would serve the funder for usually seven years.

Question 28

bacon's rebellion 


Answer 28

1675-1676. economic conflicts and lack of government support led bacon and his men to march on the capital. they were crushed, but prompted reforms.

Question 29

navigation acts


Answer 29

passed from 1650 to 1660, required certain english colonial goods to be handled by and shipped through England to benefit english merchants.

Question 30

dominion of new england

Answer 30

james II merged all colonies into this and took away many freedoms.

Question 31

glorious revolution 


Answer 31

james II overthrown and whigs force new royalty to accept the declaration of rights and create a constitutional monarchy, enhancing the house of commons power.

Question 32

john locke

Answer 32

philosopher that said legitimacy of government relies on the governed, and all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.

Question 33

salutary neglect


Answer 33

colonies avoided parliament laws meant to keep them obedient to england. chaos (charles I and civil war) lead the colonies to grow more independent and they don't want to let go of that.

Question 34

house of burgesses


Answer 34

established in virginia in 1619. first representative self government in the colonies.

Question 35

maryland act for religious tolerance


Answer 35

maryland was meant to be a catholic colony, but many protestants and other religions showed up. created this law to allow freedom of worship.

Question 36

black codes


Answer 36

made in the islands and carried to carolinas, laws to control the slave population and maintain white superiority.

Question 37

massachusetts bay colony


Answer 37

many puritans come after king charles I becomes king.

Question 38

quakers

Answer 38

members of the religious society of friends, a christian movement devoted to peaceful principles. formed pennsylvania.

Question 39

new york

Answer 39

new amsterdam was taken over by the British and made into new york, major trading port and financial center of the colonies.

Question 40

salem witch trials


Answer 40

merchant classes have more money and farmers do not causing conflict, most likely being to root of the witchcraft accusations.

Question 41

king phillip wars


Answer 41

natives last attempt to drive out colonists.

Question 42

jamestown

Answer 42

the first permanent english settlement in north america, founded by the virginia company as an economic venture.

Question 43

enclosure movement

Answer 43

the privatization of communal land, transforming it into individually owned plots.

Question 44

social contract

Answer 44

the philosophical idea that government legitimacy stems from the consent of the governed, meaning that individuals willingly agree to be ruled in exchange for certain benefits, like protection of their natural rights