History Midterm
5. Great League of Peace
Confederation of five Iroquois tribes
8. patroons
Dutch landowners of large estates
John Locke
English Enlightenment political philosopher
4. Anglicization
a. elites in America becoming more culturally English
1. Virtue
ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
11. slave trade
abolished in 1808
2. freedom petitions
action slaves took for their immediate release
10. Bill of Rights
amendments
1. Charter of Liberties
g. English demanded this over their former Dutch rulers
8. indentured servant
gave 5-7 years of service for passage to America
6. headright system America
granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage
11. Covenant Chain
h. agreement between New York and Iroquois
10. Quakers
i. believed in the equality of all persons
8. Navigation Act
j. law that regulated the shipping and selling of colonial products
5. Bacon's Rebellion
k. the poor of Virginia demand change
7. King Philip's War
l. war between New Englanders and Indians
10. haciendas
large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
6. suffrage
the right to vote
9. matrilineal
society centered on the mother's family
Olaudah Equiano
survived the Middle Passage
7. free labor
working for wages, or owning a farm or shop
11. Magna Carta
written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedom
Jonathan Edwards
wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
3. Royal African Company
e. had a monopoly on the slave trade
5. The Federalist
essays that generated support for Constitutional ratification
9. militia
"School of political democracy"
William Pitt
British prime minister
10. Moravian Brethren
Revolution undermined church authority among this group
7. Black Legend
Spanish brutality
3. New Laws
Spanish reform measures toward Indians
2. coverture"
a married woman surrendering her legal identity
12. Levellers
a political movement favoring expanded liberties
10. Half-Way Covenant
a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration
12. Glorious Revolution
d. placed William of Orange on the English throne
2. Federalism
division of powers
6. virtual representation
each member of Parliament represented the entire empire
4. Committee of Correspondence
exchanged ideas about resistance
9. West Jersey Concessions
f. a very liberal frame for government
8. patriots
fighting for the American cause
9. House of Burgesses
first elected assembly in colonial
9. Saratoga
first significant American victory
1. Articles of Confederation
first written American constitution
5. Mayflower Compact
first written frame of government in British America
Junípero Serra
founded the first mission in San Diego
James Oglethorpe
founder of Georgia
Benjamin Franklin
founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
4. mestizos
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
4. tobacco
primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies
11. Sierra Leone
settlement in Africa for freed slaves
7. three-fifths clause
slave compromise
2. an Act Concerning Religion
principles of religious toleration
4. Ladies' Association
raised funds to assist American soldiers
11. homespun virtue
refusal to buy British goods
5. Quebec Act
religious tolerance for Catholics
5. Republican motherhood
responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
3. Loyalists
retained their allegiance to the crown
Somerset case
ruled slavery unlawful in England
4. checks and balances
separation of powers
John Peter Zenger
German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal
George Whitefield
Great Awakening preacher
Pontiac
Ottawa war leader
6. criollos
Person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
12. popery
an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church
11. mound builders
ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region
8. Treaty of Greenville
annuity system
3. Puritans
argued the Church of England was still too Catholic
Trenchard and Gordon
authors of Cato's Letters
6. Toleration Act
b. allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely in England
7. Quakers
believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
8. East India Company
beneficiary of the Tea Act
12. Ethiopian regiment
black loyalist forces
2. mercantilism
c. government regulation of the nation's economy (to assure national power)
1. Virginia Company
charter company that established Jamestown
9. Naturalization Act 1790
citizenship limited to whites only
10. Loyalists
colonists who were loyal to Britain
2. Sons of Liberty
organized by Samuel Adams
3. Common Sense
pamphlet that argued for American independence
1. Columbian Exchange
transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
3. Virginia Plan
two houses based on proportional representation
6. New Jersey Plan
unicameral system
12. Pueblo Revolt
uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain
William Cosby
victim of Zenger's pen
1. Stamp Act
viewed by colonists as a major violation of liberty
7. Regulators
wealthy South Carolina backcountry residents