Chapter 3: The British Atlantic World

Question 1

Quakers

Answer 1

they believed that God spoke directly to each individual and a minister was essential to finding God’s word. This placed them in conflicts with the Church of England and Puritans

Question 1

Proprietorships

Answer 1

a colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group, who then set up a form of government independent from royal control

Question 2

Navigation Acts

Answer 2

English laws passed, requiring that certain colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships to benefit English merchants, sailors, and seamen

Question 3

Tribalization

Answer 3

the adaption of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states

Question 4

South Atlantic System

Answer 4

a new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice, and other crops for an international market. It’s plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans

Question 5

Despotism

Answer 5

having absolute power as a leader that is often taken advantage of

Question 6

Stono Rebellion

Answer 6

slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River, in which a group of slaves armed themselves and killed 20 colonists. They were quickly repressed

Question 7

Gentility

Answer 7

a refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do Englishmen and strongly influenced colonists after 1700

Question 8

Salutary Neglect

Answer 8

a term used to describe British colonial policy- by kings relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs, royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in America

Question 9

Patronage

Answer 9

practice of giving office to political allies