Unit 2 Flashcards
Uprising in Virginia farmers as response to gov Williams refusal to protect. Indentured servents->black slaves
Bacon’s rebellion
Limit rights and learning of slaves
Slaves codes
Unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade 1638-1763
Saltualtary neglect
Laws passed to regulate shipping, only English ships allowed to trade 1651
Navigation acts
Religious and tolerate groups heavily settled in penn
Quakers
Religious revival 1730-40
Great awakening
Migration of 70000 refugees from England to North America, 20000 of which came to mass for Christian settlement
Great migration
50 slaves rebel on stone river
Stone rebellion
Ends french and indian war in 1763
Treaty of Paris
Colonists could not pass specific line 1763
Proclamation of 1763
Political theory strongly emphasized civic virtue and rejection of authoritarian gov
Republicanism
Intellectual movement that emphasized reason, natural rights 17th-18th
The enlightenment
Widely unpopular tax that was later appealed in 1766 after mass protests. Colonist develope “no taxation without representation.”
Stamp act
Rice, indigo, TOBACCO
Cash crops
Established us as an independent nation and granted large amount of western land
Treaty of Paris 1783
Series of measures put in place in by British as a result from tea party
Intolerable acts
Meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia discussing how to respond to British oppression and unify
1st continental congress
1775-81 delegates from 13 colonies that met in Philadelphia
2nd continental congress
Thomas paints pamphlet urging colonies to declare independence
Common sense 1776
Tories
Loyalists
Encampment of Washington and his troops. Washington kept his army together during hard times 1777-78
Valley forge
Surprised British with French and Indians and Americans and ultimately led to the end of the american Revolution
York town
Stressed role for women. Education for many women
Republican motherhood
