Chapter 3 Flashcards
Enlightenment
A Revolution in thought originating in Europe in the seventeenth century that emphasized reason and the scientific method over the authority and myths of traditional religion
natural rights
Advanced by political theorists of the Enlightenment, the idea that an individual’s basic rights should not be violated by any government or community
Great Awakening
The fervent revival movement of Christianity that swept England’s mainland colonies from the 1720s through the 1740s.
censorship
Forbidding or otherwise suppressing the dissemination of news, ideas, or media, typically due to a conflict of ideology.
seditious libel
Libel is a false published statement with the intent to defame. Seditious libel specifically refers to published statements intended to criticize the government.
free press
A news outlet or publisher with the ability to print materials or information without government censorship
reducciones
Settlements founded in Spanish America with the intent of converting indigenous peoples to Christianity
Tuscarora War
A war fought in North Carolina between the Tuscarora and recent European settlers, mostly of German and Swiss origin; it resulted in the death of hundreds of Europeans and thousands of Tuscarora.
Yamasee War
A continuation of the Tuscarora War fought in the Carolinas between British colonists and a coalition of Native Americans led by the Yamasee
slave societies
Societies built on the social, economic, and political order of slavery, impacting every facet of life.
presidios
Spanish Military forts
slave codes
Ordinances passed by a colony or state to regular the behavior of enslaved people, often including brutal punishments for infractions.
creole languages
Languages that developed by combining elements of two or more languages into a new one.
triangular trade
A network of trade among North America, western Europe, and western Africa in which exports from one region were sold to another region, which sent its exports to a third region. which exported its own foods back to the first country or colony.
mercantilism
The economic policy of Great Britain and other imperial powers that involved regulating the economies of their colonies to benefit the home country.
