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| 81399317 | Society of Friends | also known as Quakers, founded by Margaret Fell and George, name came from shaking at the name of the Lord, rejected predestination and original sin, believed that all could achieve salvation, women held positions in the church | |
| 81399318 | Restoration Colonies | colonies founded in the late 17th century during the time when power was returned to the English monarch following a brief period of Puritan rule under Oliver Cromwell | |
| 81399319 | William Penn | an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance. | |
| 81399320 | Mercantilism | an economic theory that believes that the colonies should benefit the mother country; creating a favorable balance of trade | |
| 81399321 | The Carolinas | land between Virginia and Spanish Florida granted to 8 nobles for helping Charles II regain the throne in 1663. In 1729 two colonies were formed from the original proprietorship. One was populated by people from England and Barbados and had an economy based on rice, the other was filled with small tobacco farms with few plantations, few slaves and very democratic views | |
| 81399322 | Navigation Acts | Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade | |
| 81399323 | Dominion of New England | 1686-The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). Ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros | |
| 81399324 | Glorious Revolution of 1688 | The bloodless revolution of the 1680's in England that dethroned Catholic King James and put Protestant William III and his wife Mary on the throne. | |
| 81399325 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | |
| 81399326 | War of Spanish Succession | Led by England who fought to prevent the union of France and Spain, resulted in the Spanish and French signing the Treaty of Utrecht. British received French territory in present day Canada and a 30 year contract to supply slaves to Spanish America. | |
| 81399327 | Sugar revolution | Refers to the soaring demand for a sweetener that resulted in high profits for producers, large scale plantation production in Brazil and the West Indies, and increased slave trade that resulted in about millions of Africans being brought to the new world. | |
| 81399328 | Adam Smith | Economist who wrote Wealth of Nations; Laissez-Faire economics | |
| 81399329 | South Atlantic System | A trade system that brought wealth to Europe, and economic, political human tragedies to Africa and Natives. Had three major components: fertile land from Indians, enslaved labor from Africa, and capital and ships from Europeans. | |
| 81399330 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | |
| 81399331 | Stono Rebellion | a 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws | |
| 81399332 | Salutary Neglect | Policy of Britain during the colonial period when the British allowed American colonists to rule themselves as long as the rule also benefited Britain. | |
| 81399333 | Georgia | the buffer colony, the charity colony, founded by James Oglethorpe | |
| 81399334 | Molasses Act of 1733 | Taxation on molasses that was too high to pay and it encouraged smuggling. | |
| 81399335 | Currency Act of 1751 | prevented New England colonies from establishing new land banks and prohibited the use of colonial paper money to pay debts in England. |
