apush chapter 3 section 2

stono rebellion

Slave uprising in 1739 along with the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves, plundered six plantations, and killed more than twenty colonists. Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion 

gentility

a refined, elegant lifestyle and set of good manners that wealthy colonists adopted to mimic the English upper class

salutary neglect

a term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George and George II. By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs, royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America  

patronage

the power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters; also the jobs and favors themselves