Chapter 6 - Mercantilism and Colonial Wars

1733

________- Founded by James Oglethorpe to reform British debtor prisons.

Restoration

The period that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union

George Washington

________ attacked fort twice.

Massachusetts

________- Puritans are religiously intolerant.

Scots Irish

________ protested concentration of power in coastal regions.

Salutary Neglect

Policy of the British government from the early to mid-18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government

Puritans

________- Educate children → Religion will survive.

Mercantilism

An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

Navigation Acts

A long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships

Dominion of New England

An administrative union of English colonies covering New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies

Glorious Revolution

Forced James II from the English throne and established the reign of William and Mary, creating a major crisis among the English colonies in America

Georgia

Established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733, one of the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded

Bacon’s Rebellion

Led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused to aid Bacon in the killing and forceful removal of Native Americans from Virginia

French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

Pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes

Albany Plan of Union

A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government

Fort Duquesne

A fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers

Battle of Quebec

Fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War

William Pitt

A member of the British cabinet and its informal leader from 1756 to 1761 (with a brief interlude in 1757), during the Seven Years' War (including the French and Indian War in the American colonies)

Molasses Act

An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies

George III

King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain

Proclamation of 1763

Prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War

Land Fever

Land rush as settlers and speculators moved in to establish land claims in the US territory

Daniel Boone

Famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies

Green Mountain Boys

A militia organization first established in 1770 in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire

Patrick Henry

An American attorney, planter, politician and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"