vocab quiz Flashcards
MEMORIZIEE
anglicization
the colonial american desire to emulte english societies such as taste in food, customs, architecture.
atlantic seaboard
american indian societies developed a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored the development of permanent villages.
bacon’s rebellion
in 1676, virginia frontiersmen clashed with the native americans, they asked help from the government, to which jamestown refused to help as they were scared of the native american war. colonial rebellion against the government, clash between east/west & rich/poor. tidewater’s discrimination against frontiersmen, revision of indentured servant system, greater reliance on slave labor.
british european migrants
sought social mobility, economic prosperity, religious freedom, and improved living conditions. these colonists focused on agriculture and settled on land taken from native americans, to whom they lived seperately.
capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry is controlled by a private owner for profit, rather than the state.
chesapeake
the region of virginia and maryland. in contrast to new england, indentured servants, cash crops, such as tabacco, and African slavery distinguished this region.
enslaved/free africans (atlantic slave trade)
the transatlantic slave trade took place across the atlantic ocean from 15th-19th century. the majority of slaves were transported to the New World, mainly on the triangle trade route.
european enlightentment
an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, the Century of Philosophy. It included a range of ideas of reason being the primary source of legitimacy and authority. This led to advanced ideas of liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
first great awakening
an evangelical and revitalization movement that spread through american colonies during the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on american protestantism. it resulted form powerful preaching, giving listeners a sense of strong, personal revelation for the need of salvation from Jesus Christ.
headright system
established as an attempt to solve labor shortages. the virginia company would award 50 acres to any settler that paid for their passage or the passage of any other settlers.
mercantilism
an economic theory and practice, dominant in Europe in the 16-18 centuries, which promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers. It was the economic counterpart of political absolutism or absolute monarchies.
navigation acts
a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships to trade between Britain and its colonies. they began in 1651 and ended 200 years later. they reflected the policy of mercantilism, which sought to keep all benefits within the empire, minimizing the loss of gold and silver to foreigners.
new england colonies
religious motives for colonization, male & female and famil-oriented settlers, tight knit communities, mixed economy of subsistence farming and industry.
new world
originating in the early 16th century after europeans made landfall in what would later be called the americas in teh age of discovery, expanding the geographical horizon of classical geographers, who had thought of the world as consisting of Asia, Europe, and Africa.
north carolina
grew prosperous exporting tabacco, originally cultivated by white/male indentured servants and later on by enslaved africans.
