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Stufflet APUSH U2P2
Unit 2--Part 2-- APUSH
Question | Answer |
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Mercantilism | economic system in which the purpose was to enrich the mother country by creating a favorable balance of trade that would increase supply of bullion (gold/silver) |
Navigation Acts | mercantilist laws that regulated colonial trade that were first passed in 1650 |
Stono Rebellion | most violent slave revolt in history of 13 colonies (1739); slaves rebelled in South Carolina and tried to get to Florida |
Great Awakening | emotional religious revival during the 1730s and 1740s amongst ALL colonies |
Jonathan Edwards | his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" started the Great Awakening |
George Whitefield | credited with spreading the ideas of the Great Awakening in colonies |
chattel slavery | slavery in which the slave is the personal property of the slaveowner and can be sold and traded |
Anglicization | the process of adopting English culture in the American colonies |
salutary neglect | British policy of not always enforcing Navigation Acts from late 1650s to 1754 |
Bacon's Rebellion | revolt amongst backcountry farmers in Virginia against wealthy elites on coast |
Iroquois | they allied with the British for trade and because they believed Brits would stop colonial expansion west |
Metacom's War | conflict over English expansion into New England |
Pueblo Revolt | Native-American revolt against Spanish in southwest in 1680 |
Quakers | they founded Pennsylvania and influenced it with their tolerance |
Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Law | said no new slaves could be imported into the colony and all newborns would be born free |
Charleston | largest slave port in colonial America |
Fort Mose | settlement of freed slaves in Spanish Florida |
maroon | former slave who had escaped |
Gullah | "slave" language that combined English and native African languages |
Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island |
Ben Franklin | example of Enlightened American thinker; spread English through printing |
popular sovereignty | Enlightened political idea that said power is derived from the consent of the people |