Out of Many Chapters 1-5 Vocabulary Flashcards
Period in history when Native Americans learned how to production basic crops which transforms early societies. This new knowledge begins in Mexico and then spreads North ward.
Agricultural Revolution
A theory prevalent in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries asserting that the wealth of a nation depends on its possession of precious metals.
Mercantilism
A Christian revitalization movement that swept protestant Europe
Great Awakening
Refers to an unofficial and long lasting 17th and 18th century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep the American Colonies obedient to England.
Salutary Neglect
A philosophical movement of the 18th century characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and education.
Enlightenment
A pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were brought on the African Gold Coast with New England Rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
Triangular Trade
An unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662.
Halfway Covenant
Any of certain colonies as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and they were granted full rights of self-government.
Proprietary Colony
A slave rebellion that commenced on 9/9/1739 in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British Mainland.
Stono Rebellion
An agreement to establish a government entered into by the pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
Mayflower Compact
A person who maintains that Christians are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace asset forth in gospel.
Antinomianism
A meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for unifying the colonies.
Albany Plan of Union
One of America’s first education acts that required towns of 50 or more families to provide an elementary school where teachers were required to teach the bible.
Old Deluder Act
A person who believes in deism (belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only.)
Deists
“City Upon a Hill”- A phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus’s sermon.
“City Upon a Hill”- A phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus’s sermon.
A series of acts of parliament, the first of which was passed in 1381, that attempted to restrict to English ships the right to carry goods to and from England and its colonies. The attempt to enforce the acts helped cause the War of American Indians.
Navigation Acts
Of and pertaining to the church of England.
Anglicans
Ended the Seven Years War aka French and Indian War.
Treaty of Paris 1763
The last major effort by the Indians of Southern New England to drive out English Settlers.
King Philip’s War
Describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and power.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
An Association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferrable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for debts of the business.
Joint Stock Company
An act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration.
Tribute
Of or relating to or originating in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
Pre-Columbian
A geographical and cultural area which extends from central Mexico down through Central America. Includes Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Mesoamerica
Refers to the small bands of nomadic people who first populated North America.
Paleo-Indians
The exchange of plants, animals, culture, and diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout the era of exploration.
Columbian Exchange
Mercenary- a hired soldier in a foreign army.
Mercenary
Relating to human society
Social
Pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of goods and services.
Economic
Belief in and worship of a God or other superhuman agency- an organized system of faith and worship.
Religion
- Of, relating to, or dealing with the structure or affairs of government, politics, or the state.
- Relating to, involving, or characteristic of politics or politicians: “Calling a meeting is a political act in itself” (Daniel Goleman).
- Relating to or involving acts regarded as damaging to a government or state: political crimes.
- Interested or active in politics: I’m not a very political person.
- Having or influenced by partisan interests: The court should never become a political institution.
- Based on or motivated by partisan or self-serving objectives: a purely political decision.
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