APUSH Unit 2 Part 2 Vocab

Mercantilism

economic system in which the purpose was to enrich the mother country by creating a favorable balance of trade that would increase supply of bullion (gold/silver)

Navigation Acts

mercantilist laws that regulated colonial trade that were first passed in 1650

Stono Rebellion

most violent slave revolt in history of 13 colonies (1739); slaves rebelled in South Carolina and tried to get to Florida

Great Awakening

emotional religious revival during the 1730s and 1740s amongst ALL colonies

Jonathan Edwards

his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" started the Great Awakening

George Whitefield

credited with spreading the ideas of the Great Awakening in colonies

chattel slavery

slavery in which the slave is the personal property of the slaveowner and can be sold and traded

Anglicization

the process of adopting English culture in the American colonies

salutary neglect

British policy of not always enforcing Navigation Acts from late 1650s to 1754

Bacon's Rebellion

revolt amongst backcountry farmers in Virginia against wealthy elites on coast

Iroquois

they allied with the British for trade and because they believed Brits would stop colonial expansion west

Metacom's War

conflict over English expansion into New England

Pueblo Revolt

Native-American revolt against Spanish in southwest in 1680

Quakers

they founded Pennsylvania and influenced it with their tolerance

Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Law

said no new slaves could be imported into the colony and all newborns would be born free

Charleston

largest slave port in colonial America

Fort Mose

settlement of freed slaves in Spanish Florida

maroon

former slave who had escaped

Gullah

"slave" language that combined English and native African languages

Roger Williams

founder of Rhode Island

Ben Franklin

example of Enlightened American thinker; spread English through printing

popular sovereignty

Enlightened political idea that said power is derived from the consent of the people