Chapter 3 Flashcards
Warning: These cards are very detailed for your benefit. Summarize the answers and have fun memorizing them! :)
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Proprietorship
Def. A colony in which a private land owner retained rights that were normally the privilege of the state. The owner ruled as he wished as long as his laws conformed broadly to England’s. (ex. Lord Baltimore’s Maryland)
Signif. Since there were a variety of different colonies, it attracted a diverse set of settlers from countries other than England.
Quakers
Def. Men and women who went to America to escape persecution. They sought to restore Christianity to its simple spirituality (everyone had an inner light of understanding). They were persecuted in England because they refused to serve in the military and pay taxes to support the Church of England.
Signif. Their beliefs led to a religiously free, politically equal Pennsylvania that in turn diversified and pacified the colony.
Navigation Acts
Def. Laws that required that goods be carried on ships owned by the English or colonial merchants.
Signif. Since colonial exports and imports were only traded through England, both sides benefitted economically, however, many colonies violated the laws and this caused tension.
Dominion of England
Def. A new royal province of CT, RI, MA Bay, Plymouth, NY, and NJ all merged together.
Signif. The new colony was put under authoritarian rule. They abolished existing legislatures, banned town meetings, and advocated public worship in the Church of England. (caused tension because it angered colonists)
Glorious Revolution
Def. A quick, bloodless war in which a protestant, Dutch prince, William of Orange, overthrew King James ll.
Signif. It prevented having a Catholic heir, the king’s son, to the English thrown. The Whigs also ended up gaining power because they forced William to accept the Declaration of Rights.
Tribalization
Def. The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demand imposed on them by neighboring states.
Signif. Many did not survive due to disease, but those who did joined together as a large nation, so that they could deal more effectively with their Europeans neighbors.
Covenant Chain
Def. An alliance between the Iroquis and New York.
Signif. Their neutrality made them more sought after as allies, and the alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native Americans.
South Atlantic System
Def. An agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, and rice for the international market.
Signif. Merchants, investors, and planter’s garnered profit, but 6.1 million Africans were transported to the Americas and forced into slavery.
Stono Rebellion
Def. A slave uprising in South Carolina.
Signif. Although the revolt was suppressed, frightened South Carolinians cut slave imports and tightened plantation discipline. It showed the impossibility of success.
Gentility
Def. A refined but elaborate lifestyle. (Sophistication)
Signif. Planters began to model themselves on the English aristocracy by using manners, educating themselves, and upgrading their houses.
Salutary Neglect
Def. A British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws. (Colonists did not have to pay a salary to the royal government)
Signif. The rise of an American self-government as royal bureaucrats eventually lead to independence.
William Penn
Def. A Quaker real estate entrepreneur.
Signif. Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania who provided the Quakers a safe place to live because he was religiously tolerant and friendly to the Indians.
John Locke
Def. An English philosopher who believed that people were reasonable and moral and that everyone had natural rights.
Signif. The French Enlightenment and our founding fathers drew heavily on his ideas.
Edmund Andros
Def. English colonial administrator and governor of the Dominion of New England.
Signif. He was partly responsible for the separation of the Dominion of New England because he banned town meetings, prohibited colonists from leaving, and removed the Puritan’s right to wed.
