Unit 2 Id cards Flashcards
(37 cards)
Headright system
Sir Edwin Sandy, Indentured servants, landowners
What: a practice where settlers granted land to settlers in exchange for more population and a 4-7 year work
Impact: increased pop. increase indentured servants
House of Burgess
Payton Randolph, William Byrd, G. Wash., Thomas Jef.
what: 1st legislative body in north america(only white men)
impact: establish a representative gov. expanding rights
Indentured Servitude
Immigrants, land owners
what: men and women who agreed to work 4-7 yrs for 50 car of land.
impact: cheap way to get labor but pave way for slavery.
Puritans
religous pilgrims
what: religious reform movement where they wanted to change how the church of England is.
impact: created education system, equality for woman, social,, political foundation for new world.
Mayflower Compact
all 41 men on mayflower
what: a brief doc that was sued as forming a gov and how people would establish “for the grater good of the colony”.
impact: Brought the english concept of law and liberty to new world. social contract
Pequot War
Native american, english settler John Mason
What: two grops wanted control of land for trade. English won
impact: took out all culture of the pequot nation and the 1638 treaty of Hartford was established
Kind Phylips war
Native americas v english settlers
what: seen as a final attempt to drive the colonist away from the native land
impact: native American lost their land and the colonist took over the land “took over legally”
Bacon rebellion
laborers(nathanal Bacon) v. virgina gov (william Berkley)
what: armed rebellion by Verginia setlers to go against berkley since he wouldnt’ protect them from the Native American attacks.
Impact: decrease in indetured servants and increase in slaves
Enlightenment
John Locke, Montesquiu
what: an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasize reason over superstition and science over blind faith
impact: Brought secular idea to Europe and reshaped how people understood issues
Great awakening
Johnathan Edward, George Whitefield
what: a revival that swept protestantism in British colonies and ched the fabric of religion in early America. result of enlightenment
impact: altered religion in the American colonies and encourage people to make personal connections Methodist and Baptist grew.
French and Indian war
british, french, native american, colonist
what: a conflict between britain and France over who will gain control of north America. Also known as the 7 year war the French allied with natives and they fought against brit
impact: British gained a lot of control over area dn ended with treaty of Paris. the colonial discontent over brit lead to American revolution
Proclamation of 1763
king George 3, British Parliament, colonist, indigenous people
what: after French and Indian war king decided no colonist can settle past Appalachian mountains because king could not protect.
impact: closed colonial expansion of land and angered the colonist. the brit can now tax the colonist
salary neglect
Robert Walpole, Edmund Burke, colonist
what: brit unofficial policy to turn its eyes from America and have a little bit of free governing without brit interference for 150 years
impact allowed American colonist to establish foreign trading relationships without britain.
sugar act
George Grenville(prime minister), American colonist
what: a tax on sugar, molasses, and other goods from ONLY the colonist in america to pay for the French and indian war
impact: balance between America and Britain trade is messed up and also it upset colonist to create sons of liberty
stamp act
British parelement, brit soldiers, north america
What: passed by brit parliament for pay for troopers in colonies requested to pay tax on stapes, different parter, documents, and playing cards
impact : violent posted in America where the idea no taxation without representation was created.
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
what: a group of American colonist who used civil disobedience to protest britain through boycott and public protest against the taxes put on the colonist only
impact; prevented stamp act, started Boston tea party, pave way to American independence
Townshed act
Charles Townshed, brit parliament, American colonies
what: to help pay expenses there was a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
impact: Raied price of tea and hurt the other colonial shipping companies because only could buy from british controled compnay
“Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania”
John Dickinson
what: a series of essays to protest the Townshed act
impact: united the colonist together against the Townshed act and a run up to American revolution.
committees of correspondence
colonist
what: a committee in response to the gaspee affair, a way for American colonistt to communicate and to share ideas plus disgusts independence
impact: Rallied colonial opposition against the brish policies and established a political union among the 13 colonies
Boston massacre
Crispus Attucks, brit soldiers, colonist
What: redcote sent to calm colonist after Townshed act and they fired into the crowed because one thought he heard fire
impact: added to he tension between the two and is the first time an American is killed by a British soldier. considered one of the first battles
Tea act
British Parliamentary, American colonies
what: a law giving all control of tread and delivery of tea to the east Indian tea company because british need money and they would tax the tea
impact: cut off colonial merchants and made it illigal to buy non British tea. angering the sons of liberty and lead to Boston tea party
Boston Tea party
sons of liberty, British, East Indian tea company, British parlement
what; group of colonist destroyed a large British tea shipment into the Boston harbor dressed as native Americans.
impact: coercive act and closing the ports, angering the king, losing millions of dollars
Coercive/ Intolerable act
British parlement, American colonist(Massachusetts bay)
what: punish the colonist for dumping the tea and this limited colonial power, had royal government reinstated, forced colonial back in place and closed the ports
impact:took self governing away and made the colonist angery
First Continental congress
Patrick Henry, G. Wash., John and Samuel Adams
what: a meeting of delegates from 12/13 colonies that talked about what they wanted to do with the rules
impact: compact among the colonies to boycott british goods