Key Terms: chapter 3
King Phillips war-
a multi year conflict that began in 1675 between the English and a native alliance led by Wampanoags Metacomet (King Philip) and Weetamoo.
Broadened freedoms for white new England era and the dispossession of the Wampanoag and other Indians
Final attempt to drive out colonists
metacomet
Native american
started King Philips war
King Philip, Wampanoag leader
led a war against the English colonists
was killed in one of the wars
mercantilism
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restrictive trade practices.
policy. Of Great Britain and other imperial powers of regulating the economies of colonies to benefit the mother country
Navigation acts
The Navigation Acts (1651, 1660) were acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.
covenant chain
Alliance formed in the 1670s between the English colony of New York and the Haudenosaunee league and eventually other colonies and native nations
The five (later 6) Haudenosaunee nations and New York joined together to fight native rivals and the French
1680s Indians around the Great Lakes and Ohio valley began to regroup and with french aid attacked the Haudenosaunee
yamasee war
Conflicts between Indians(Yamasee) and British colonists in the area of South Carolina, Resulting in a collapse of Indian power.
Aggravated by rising debts and slave traders raids
Yamasee lost
resulted in the end of South Carolina’s Indian Slave Trade
society of friends (quakers)
SOF was a Christian Group founded in mid 17th century in England, and they believed that all people contained a spark of divine, which they called the “inward light”
Early proponents of abolition of slavery and equal rights for women
Bacon's rebellion
Bacon wanted to get rid of all the natives
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.
glorious revolution
A term used to describe the peaceful way in which parliament asserted its rights over the monarchy in 1688.
English bill of rights
An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown
Lords of trade
body formed by Charles II in 1675 to provide consistent advice to the Privy Council regarding the management of the growing number of English colonies
dominion of new enlgand
A province of colonies like Connecticut, Rhodes island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, and New York.
english toleration act
Religious freedom for all (except Jews and Roman Catholics)
The Toleration Act of 1689 made by the Parliament of England gave all non-conformists, except Roman Catholics, freedom of worship, thus rewarding Protestant dissenters for their refusal to side with James II.
salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
redemptioners
Indentured servants who sold themselves to pay back the money they owe to the Virginia Company.
walking purchase
-The Delaware were the Native Americans most friendly to William Penn; they were rewarded by the infamous Walking Purchase, a treaty that deprived them of their own lands and forced them to settle on lands assigned to the Iroquois.
backcountry
The Backcountry was a term for the region in around the Appalachians in North America, used before the American Revolutionary War and American expansionism.
Generally, the majority of the population of the Backcountry was Native American. However, especially towards the late 18th century, more European settlers began to penetrate the Backcountry and settle among the natives
staple crops
A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population's diet. Food staples are eaten regularly—even daily—and supply a major proportion of a person's energy and nutritional needs.
Natchez war
The Natchez revolt, or the Natchez massacre, was an attack by the Natchez Native American people on French colonists near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, …
French won the war
drove the Natchez from their homeland
Founding of Carolina
1670, the first settlers arrive to found Carolina
began as an offshoot of the tiny island in barbados
early settlers sought native Allies. By offering guns for deer hides and captives, a policy that unleashed widespread raiding among Indians for slaves to sell
prevented the Spanish in florida from expanding their interests northward
Review Questions
Both the Puritans and William Penn viewed their colonies as "holy experiments." How did they differ?
The quakers had a more modern view of human rights, like women’s equality. They also had a more free lifestyle.
Examine the economic forces, events, and laws that shaped the experiences of enslaved people.
mercantilism, founding of Carolina
How did English leaders understand the place and role of the American colonies in England's empire?
The role of the colonies was to produce raw materials and goods for commerce, and import manufactured goods from the mother country.
How did King Philip's War, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Salem witch trials illustrate a widespread crisis in British North America in the late seventeenth century?
All of these events show the ongoing beef between natives and colonists. Maybe fueled the religious and social tensions.
The social structure of the eighteenth-century colonies was growing more open for some but not for others. Consider the statement with respect to men and women, whites and Blacks, and rich and poor.
By the end of the seventeenth century, commerce was the foundation of empire and the leading cause of competition between European empires. Explain how the North American colonies were directly linked to Atlantic commerce by laws and trade.
America had new foods and precious commodities that were useful for their motherland.
If you traveled from New England to the South, how would you describe the diversity you saw between the different colonies?
First you would see a difference in environment. Slavery was A LOT more prominent in the south.
What impact did the family's being the center of economic life have on gender relations and the roles of women?
depending on the family structure in this time the men would generally work and the women had to take of the children an house chores.
What experiences caused people in the colonies to be like people in England, and what experiences served to make them different?
The expansion for america was rough so they constantly had goods, provisions, and settlers.
Dealing with the natives and unfamiliar land they had to acclimate to the environment?
How did the adoption of horses change life on the Great Plains?
Travel time was a lot less and lead to the invention of horse and carriage.
King Phillips war-
a multi year conflict that began in 1675 between the English and a native alliance led by Wampanoags Metacomet (King Philip) and Weetamoo.
Broadened freedoms for white new England era and the dispossession of the Wampanoag and other Indians
Final attempt to drive out colonists
metacomet
Native american
started King Philips war
King Philip, Wampanoag leader
led a war against the English colonists
was killed in one of the wars
mercantilism
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restrictive trade practices.
policy. Of Great Britain and other imperial powers of regulating the economies of colonies to benefit the mother country
Navigation acts
The Navigation Acts (1651, 1660) were acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.
covenant chain
Alliance formed in the 1670s between the English colony of New York and the Haudenosaunee league and eventually other colonies and native nations
The five (later 6) Haudenosaunee nations and New York joined together to fight native rivals and the French
1680s Indians around the Great Lakes and Ohio valley began to regroup and with french aid attacked the Haudenosaunee
yamasee war
Conflicts between Indians(Yamasee) and British colonists in the area of South Carolina, Resulting in a collapse of Indian power.
Aggravated by rising debts and slave traders raids
Yamasee lost
resulted in the end of South Carolina’s Indian Slave Trade
society of friends (quakers)
SOF was a Christian Group founded in mid 17th century in England, and they believed that all people contained a spark of divine, which they called the “inward light”
Early proponents of abolition of slavery and equal rights for women
Bacon's rebellion
Bacon wanted to get rid of all the natives
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.
glorious revolution
A term used to describe the peaceful way in which parliament asserted its rights over the monarchy in 1688.
English bill of rights
An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown
Lords of trade
body formed by Charles II in 1675 to provide consistent advice to the Privy Council regarding the management of the growing number of English colonies
dominion of new enlgand
A province of colonies like Connecticut, Rhodes island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, and New York.
english toleration act
Religious freedom for all (except Jews and Roman Catholics)
The Toleration Act of 1689 made by the Parliament of England gave all non-conformists, except Roman Catholics, freedom of worship, thus rewarding Protestant dissenters for their refusal to side with James II.
salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
redemptioners
Indentured servants who sold themselves to pay back the money they owe to the Virginia Company.
walking purchase
-The Delaware were the Native Americans most friendly to William Penn; they were rewarded by the infamous Walking Purchase, a treaty that deprived them of their own lands and forced them to settle on lands assigned to the Iroquois.
backcountry
The Backcountry was a term for the region in around the Appalachians in North America, used before the American Revolutionary War and American expansionism.
Generally, the majority of the population of the Backcountry was Native American. However, especially towards the late 18th century, more European settlers began to penetrate the Backcountry and settle among the natives
staple crops
A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population's diet. Food staples are eaten regularly—even daily—and supply a major proportion of a person's energy and nutritional needs.
Natchez war
The Natchez revolt, or the Natchez massacre, was an attack by the Natchez Native American people on French colonists near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, …
French won the war
drove the Natchez from their homeland
Founding of Carolina
1670, the first settlers arrive to found Carolina
began as an offshoot of the tiny island in barbados
early settlers sought native Allies. By offering guns for deer hides and captives, a policy that unleashed widespread raiding among Indians for slaves to sell
prevented the Spanish in florida from expanding their interests northward
Review Questions
Both the Puritans and William Penn viewed their colonies as "holy experiments." How did they differ?
The quakers had a more modern view of human rights, like women’s equality. They also had a more free lifestyle.
Examine the economic forces, events, and laws that shaped the experiences of enslaved people.
mercantilism, founding of Carolina
How did English leaders understand the place and role of the American colonies in England's empire?
The role of the colonies was to produce raw materials and goods for commerce, and import manufactured goods from the mother country.
How did King Philip's War, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Salem witch trials illustrate a widespread crisis in British North America in the late seventeenth century?
All of these events show the ongoing beef between natives and colonists. Maybe fueled the religious and social tensions.
The social structure of the eighteenth-century colonies was growing more open for some but not for others. Consider the statement with respect to men and women, whites and Blacks, and rich and poor.
By the end of the seventeenth century, commerce was the foundation of empire and the leading cause of competition between European empires. Explain how the North American colonies were directly linked to Atlantic commerce by laws and trade.
America had new foods and precious commodities that were useful for their motherland.
If you traveled from New England to the South, how would you describe the diversity you saw between the different colonies?
First you would see a difference in environment. Slavery was A LOT more prominent in the south.
What impact did the family's being the center of economic life have on gender relations and the roles of women?
depending on the family structure in this time the men would generally work and the women had to take of the children an house chores.
What experiences caused people in the colonies to be like people in England, and what experiences served to make them different?
The expansion for america was rough so they constantly had goods, provisions, and settlers.
Dealing with the natives and unfamiliar land they had to acclimate to the environment?
How did the adoption of horses change life on the Great Plains?
Travel time was a lot less and lead to the invention of horse and carriage.
