Terms for Chapter 3 Flashcards
Individual who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the colonies
Indentured servant
Three-way pattern of trade that involved England English colonies in the Americas and west Africa
Triangular Trade
The forced transport of enslaved Africans from west Africa to the Americas
Middle passage
African-American poet who is captured in west Africa at age 7 and sold to someone in Boston. She learn to read and write and her owners home. She had good poems but people refused to publisher poems. She later found a London publisher to print her poems and in the same year she was granted her freedom
Phillis Wheatley
English document from 1215 that limited the power of the king and provided basic rights for citizens
Magna Carta
Legislative body of a country
Parliament
Document signed in 1689 that bound to the rights of English citizens
English bill of rights
Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed
Habeus corpus
British policy in early 1700s which allows the colonies virtual self-rule as long as great Britian was gaining economically
Salutary neglect
Economic policy under which a nation accumulate wealth by exporting more goods than it imports
Mercantilism
British trade laws and acted by Parliament during the mid 1700s that regulated colonial commerce
Navigation acts
Early century movement during which European philosophers believed that societies problems could be solved using reason and science
Enlightenment
Famous for creating bifocals and electricity. Most famous printer in the 1700s famous for printing poor Richards almanac
Benjamin Franklin
Religious movement in English colonies during the 1730s and 1740s which was heavily inspired by ventricle preachers
Great awakening
Crops in constant demand
Staple crop