Quiz 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire Flashcards
Middle passage
The middle passage that was taken through the atlantic to reach mainland North America in the colonies with slaves. Typically, it was a harsh journey that few survived. 12 million africans were transported through it.
Atlantic slave trade
The systematic importation of african slaves across the atlantic to the colonies to the Americas
Yeoman farmers
Smaller farmers that did the work themselves and did not employ traditional slaves.
Stono Rebellion
An 1739 uprising by enslaved men in south carolina that ended up severely tightening the slave code.
Republicanism
An 18th century theory that proclaimed celebrated active participation in public life as central to freedom
Liberalism
Originally, a political philosophy that emphasized the protection of liberty by limiting the power of the government to interfere with the natural rights of citizens.
Salutary neglect
The british policy that allowed the American colonies considerable freedoms to persue their economic and political interests in exchange for colonial obidience.
Enlightenment
Revolution in thought during the eighteenth century that began in europe; it emphasized reason and science over traditional religionism.
Deism
Enlightenment thought applied to religion; Emphasized reason, morality, and natural law.
Great Awakening
Fervent religious revival movemetn in the 1720s through the 1740s that was spread in the colonies by ministers like Jon Edwards and George Whitefield.
Serra, Father Junipero
Missionary who began and directed the California mission system in the 1770s and 1780s. Serra presided over the conversion of many Indians to Christianity sometimes by force.
Seven Years’ War
The last and most important of four colonial wars fought between England and France for control of North America east of the Mississippi River (Also known as the French and Indian War)
Neolin
A Delaware prophet who brought together an idea of uniformity for the Native American people that was not existent at the time. He shamed the natives’ use of typical European household products.
Pontiac’s War
A was inspired by the Delaware prophet Neolin in which allied Native American fighters from the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes successfully attacked British forts and settlements after France ceded to the British its territory east of the Mississippi River as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Proclamation of 1763
Royal directive issued after the Seven Years’ War and Pontiac’s War prohibiting settlement, surveys, and land grants west of the Appalachian Mountains; caused considerable resentment among colonists.
