APUSH Chapter 3 and 4

proprietorship

a colony created through a grant of land from the english monarch to an individual or group, then setup a government independent from royal control

quakers

condemned extreme extravagance

believed god spoke directly to each individual throuh and “inner light” and ministers and the bibble were not essential.

navigation acts

English laws passed beginning in the 1650s and 1660s requiring that English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships. Benefits English merchants, seamen, and shippers

dominion of new england

Royal province created by King James II that would have absorbed connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts bay, plymouth, new york, and new jersey and remove their chartered right. Canceled by the glorious revolution

glorious revolution

Coup in 1688 where James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange. Forced Killiama nd Mary to create the Declaration of rights which created a constitutional monarchy (limited power of crown)

constitutional monarchy

a monarchy limited in its rule by a constituion

second hundred years’ war

an era of warfare beginning with the war of the league of augsburg (1689) until defeat of Napolean at waterloo (1815). England fought 7 major wars.

tribalization

the adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states

covenant chain

the alliance of the iroquois, first with the colony of new york, then british empire. Model for relations between british and Native American people

south atlantic system

agriculture and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice, and other torpical and subtropical products for an international makret. Ruled by planter merchants and worked by enslaved africans

middle passage

burtal sea voyage from africa ot the americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved africans

stono rebellion

slave uprising in 1739 along the stono river in south carolina. Groups of slaves armed themselves and killed colonist. quickly suppressed

gentility

refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among upper class English families, strongly influenced upper class in the colonies

salutary neglect

described british coloinal policy under George I and George II. Relaxing supervision of internal colonial affairs. Led to the rise of sself government in north america

patronage

power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters

land banks

an institution created by colonial legislature, that printed paper money and lented it to farmers. Ensured repayment

william penn

Created the colony in penssylvania as a refuge for the quakers who were persecuted in england

william of orange

Led the glorious revolution against King James II and became with Queen mary the constitutional monarch

john locke

philospher who wrote two treatises on government

life, liberty, property!

jacob leisler

In New York he led a rebellion against the dominion of new england

Later hanged for treason

william byrd II

Coloonist who went back to England, but shunned for being a “colonial”

eventually moved back to virginia where he built a mansion

Edmund Andros:

Governed the Dominion of New England and was tough on colonial independence.

Robert Walpole:

A big Whig politician who practiced patronage a lot and was Prime Minister of Britain for a while.Developed salutary neglect which gave colonies more freedom.

1st war

king williams war/war of league of augsburg

2nd war

war of spanish succession/queen annes war

3rd war

war of the austrian succcession/king george’s war

4th war

seven yeas war/ french indain war

self governing colonies

rhodeisland

conneticut

proprietorships

maryland, pennsylvania

royal colonies

virginia, massachusettes, carolinas, new york, new jersey, new hampshire, georgia

 Molasses Act of 1733

ariff on French Molasses (not profitable for Americans)

• Colonies sold products to french sugar islands, but britain did not like this as they were competitors

who were notable new lights (pietism)

Jonathan edwards - sinner in  the hands of an angry god; Congregationalist preacher “fire and brimstone” 

George Whitefiled - Evangelical preacher; led the First Great Awakening of the 1730s-40s with Edwards 

pontiac

Native American chief who remained loyal to the French after the British claimed former French land; did not like the Anglo-American settlers 

led rebellion against anglo amricas

navigation acts(1651)

created by Charles II for merantilist purposes of keeping trade/wealth in english hands

ohio valley

conflict of french indian war was centered over disputed ladn in this area

george washingtons role in french indian war

• Governor Dinwiddie dispatches an expedition (George Washington)

  • Discovers that many of the Native Americans there tend to side with the French

  • Gets into a skirmish with the French

  • Tanaghrisson kills a French officer in order to ensure war 

war of jenkins ear

• Between the British and the Spanish, establishment of Georgia 

• Robert Walpole

carolinas gpersia

• Proprietors wanted to create a traditional european society

• Settlers were poor and rebelled against taxes

• Traded deer skin and eventually rice cultivation (slaves)

• Economy was based on slave labor

• Oppressive conditions for slaves as rice farming was hard work and dangerous

RICE RICE RICE

pennsylvania

• Created by William Penn, refuge for the Quakers

• Religious freedom 

• freehold/ yeoman ideology of everyone having land

• Pacifism

african american kingdoms

• Slaves from many different ethnic groups, religions, and languages were forced together

• They eventually found common ground and created a “nation within a nation”

• continued cultural practices: music, clothing, values

• Resistance was hard : hard to organize, get weapons, etc.

• Slave owners feared slaves rising up against them

yeoman/freeman idea

everyone gets land yay!

this idea broke down due to increaisng populations

albany plan

proposed by ben frankin in 1754

unify the colonies due to threat of french indian war

french allies

hurons

british allies

mohawks

peace treaty of paris 1763

ended 7 years war

most of north america to british,

proclamation act of 1763

colonists cant go past appalation mouantsains cus thats where the native americans are

but the colonists did so anyways —> increasing tensions

desim

suprme being created earth

rational version of religion