Chapter 3- The Bonds Of Empire

Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

A European ideological movement beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth century that stressed reason and scientific inquiry, as well as individualism.

Question 2

Glorious revolution

Answer 2

Revolution of 1688 that resulted in the overthrow of James II by William of orange.

Question 3

English bill of rights

Answer 3

Under its terms, the crown was required to summon parliament annually, sign all its bills, and respect traditional civil liberties

Question 4

Leisler’s rebellion

Answer 4

Led by Captain Jacob Leisler, it was an uprising in New York in 1689 against the British.

Question 5

Protestant association

Answer 5

Association formed by John Coode and three others to secure Maryland for William and Mary.

Question 6

King William’s war

Answer 6

First in a series of European wars fought in part on North American soil.

Question 7

Grand settlement of 1701

Answer 7

Treaty in which the Five Nations of the Iroquois confederacy made peace with France and its Indian allies in exchange for access to western furs and redefined their alliance with Britain to exclude military cooperation.

Question 8

Queen Anne’s war

Answer 8

War in 1702 between England versus France and Spain

Question 9

Mercantilism

Answer 9

The theory that holds that each nation’s power was measured by its wealth, especially in gold. To secure wealth, a country needed to maximize its sale of abroad in exchange for gold while minimizing foreign purchases paid for gold.

Question 10

Navigation acts

Answer 10

A series of laws that governed commerce between England and its colonies.

Question 11

Middle passage

Answer 11

The journey in which millions of slaves were transported from Africa to the americas, packed into cramped, quarters in the dungeons of ships for weeks at a time. Estimates are that up to 20 percent of the human cargo died on board.

Question 12

Creole

Answer 12

A term used to distinguish between black slaves born in and brought from Africa and those born in the American colonies. Creoles were born in the American colonies and could be of mixed black and European descent.

Question 13

Stono rebellion

Answer 13

A slave uprising in 1739 in South Carolina.

Question 14

Tuscarora war

Answer 14

War in the Carolinas in 1711-1713 between the Tuscarora Indians and the colonists.

Question 15

Yamasee war

Answer 15

A series of attacks in 1715-1716 led by Catawbas, creeks, and other Indian allies on English trading houses and settlements. Only by enlisting the aid of the Cherokee Indians, and allowing four hundred slaves to bear arms, did the colony crush the uprising.

Question 16

Covenant chain

Answer 16

A series of treaties between the Iroquois and the colonists, under these treaties, the Iroquois helped the colonies subjugate Indians whose lands the English wanted.

Question 17

Walking purchase

Answer 17

William penny’s sons produced a fraudulent “deed”, which alleged that the Delawares has agreed in 1686 to sell their land as far westward as a man could walk in a day and a half. After selling much of the land to settlers and speculators in a lottery and hiring two men to rehearse the walk, the penns in 1737 sent the two men to conduct an “official” walk. The men covered sixty-four miles, meaning that the Delawares has to hand over an additional twelve hundred square miles of land.

Question 18

James Oglethorpe

Answer 18

One of the trustees of the Georgia colony. He purchased land for the colony. He purchased land for the colony from the creek Indians, with whom he cultivated close ties. He founded the port of savannah in 1733, and by 1740 twenty-eight hundred settlers had arrived. He was determined to keep slavery out of Georgia because slaves he thought, degraded black people, made whites lazy, and prevented a terrible risk of slave revolts.

Question 19

King George’s war

Answer 19

Also known as the war of the Austrian succession. It started out as a conflict between Britain and Spain, but then escalated when France allied with Spain.

Question 20

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 20

A skilled printer who had a zest for learning and new ideas. He later on devoted his life to science and public service.

Question 21

Great awakening

Answer 21

An evangelical Protestant religious revival movement that swept through Europe and the American colonies in 1730s and 1740s.

Question 22

George Whitfield

Answer 22

A significant preacher during the great awakening.