Period 2

Mercantilism

More exports than imports colonies give raw materials to mother land

Navigation acts

Required colonies to trade with British and taxed them when they passed through their ports

stone rebellion

Slaves stole weapons from a store and killed store owners and marched stono river burning plantations squashed by militia

Jamestown

First permanent settlement almost failed at first bc of disease but then became very successful

Indentured servants

Ppl gave up rights for years to gain citizenship in new world

Bacons rebellion

1676, Poor farmers and indentured servants revolted against governor berkley bc he wouldn’t drive natives out and attacked natives

City on a hill

We were ideal model society and every should be like us

Mayflower compact

First establish gov in new world

House of burgesses

Assembly to enforce laws and tax’s

Great awakening

Religious revival first break away from British

Salutary neglect

British were to far to enforce taxes in new world and so increase of self government

Enlightenment

More Secular/ logical ideas over religious

Encomienda system

colonists get forced labor from the people they colonized

Joint stock companies

Investors pool money together to fund colonization

Social contract

Power to govern is in ppls hands and those people give govt some power in return for the protection of their natural rights

Impressment

British seize men to serve in royal navy’s which angers colonists and increases tensions