History 2 study guide

This is what you call someone who makes a long journey for religious purposes

Pilgrims

This word means showing no interest

Apathetic

This word means an awakening of interest to religion

Revival

This was a movement to end slavery

Abolition

This was the group that wanted to purify the church of England

Puritans

This was a revival in the 1730s

The Great Awakening

This is a written grant detailing rights and privileges to settle colonies

Charter

This is a fake name an author may use

Pseudonym

This is a group that wanted to separate from the church of England

Separatist

This was the name of the journey that the slaves took to get to the colonies

Middle Passage

This is a system in which enslaved people have no human rights and are classified as goods

The Chattel Slavery

This is the law-making body of England

Parliament

This is an agreement in 1215 listing the rights of all free Englishmen

Magna Carta

This is to move goods in and out of a country illegally

Smuggling

This is what we call growing a crop in a large quantity for profit

Cash Crop

This was an economic policy where nations gained wealth through colonies

Mercantilism

This is a rural area along the western edge of the colonies

Backcountry

What did the English colonists expect in America

Same rights as English citizens

What made Jonathan Edwards think his church needed a revival

They lost their passion for God

What delayed the construction of schools in the middle colonies

Different religious beliefs

Where in the colonies did the people have slaves

Everywhere

Why did people in New England want their children to be educated

To read the bible

What was the effect of the Magna Carta in England

It limited the king’s power

What things were caused by the Great Awakening that lead to the American Revolution

Feeling of equality, Sense of unity, Diminished the authority of the king

What was the purpose of the colonial system

It was to make money for England

Why were settlers so amazed when they met Squanto

Because he spoke their language

What did Squanto tell the settlers to plant with the crops

Fish

What was the Mayflower Compact

A set of rules that was made with laws and how they would govern themselves that they made on the Mayflower before they ever landed

What was the name of the church that Henry VIII formed in England when he got rid of the catholic church

The Anglican Church

What part of the colonies had the least amount of religious diversity

New England

What was the marriage tradition of the backcountry people

Steal the bride

What was the tone of Jonathan Edward’s preaching

God’s mad at you because you don’t care about your faith

What was Equiano remembered for

He wrote a book that exposed the cruelty of slavery

Who wrote Amazing Grace

John Newton