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| 11310380622 | Glorious Revolution | A bloodless revolt in England against Catholic King James II that led to his overthrow and the appointment of Protestant daughter Mary to the throne. These events in England allowed many colonists in America to get rid of hated officials too | 0 | |
| 11310380623 | Iroquois Confederacy | a powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida | 1 | |
| 11310380624 | Mercantilism | government policy aimed at achieving national economic self-sufficiency; govt regulates the nation's commercial interests | 2 | |
| 11310380625 | Navigation Acts | A series of British regulations which taxed goods imported by the colonies from places other than Britain, or otherwise sought to control and regulate colonial trade. Increased British-colonial trade and tax revenues. The Navigation Acts were reinstated after the French and Indian War because Britain needed to pay off debts incurred during the war, and to pay the costs of maintaining a standing army in the colonies. | 3 | |
| 11310380626 | French West Indies | group of small islands in the Caribbean that were conquered by the French; cash crop = sugar | 4 | |
| 11310380627 | Scots-Irish | A group of restless people who fled their home in Scotland in the 1600s to escape poverty and religious oppression. They first relocated to Ireland and then to America in the 1700s. They mainly lived in western PA, Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. | 5 | |
| 11310380628 | Philadelphia | A city in southeastern Pennsylvania, named by William Penn; a major United States port; largest city in colonial America | 6 | |
| 11310380629 | convict labor | England had too many prisoners for their prisons so they started sending them to the colonies as cheap labor; Georgia | 7 | |
| 11310380630 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | 8 | |
| 11310380631 | Stono Rebellion | 100 slaves rebelled in South Carolina, killing 100 whites and attempting to escape to Florida; whites quickly suppress rebellion; led Southern legislatures to pass strict slave laws and harsh punishments | 9 | |
| 11310380632 | Ohio River Valley | Fertile and strategic point of interest, became the center of many conflicts between the French and the British; significant for its fur trade and transportation | 10 | |
| 11310380633 | Covenant Chain | An alliance between the Iroquois Confederacy and the colony of New York which sought to establish Iroquois dominance over all other tribes and thus put New York in an economically and politically dominant position among the other colonies | 11 | |
| 11310380634 | Walking Purchase | A fraudulent transaction in 1737 whereby Pennsylvania Governor James Logan acquired a large tract of land by hiring runners to mark land; the Lenni Lanape Indians had agreed to cede land that a man could walk in thirty-six hours. | 12 | |
| 11310380635 | James Oglethorpe | Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Eventually Oglethorpe was dismissed and slavery was allowed | 13 | |
| 11310380636 | Florida | Spanish territory; refuge for escaped slaves from the English colonies | 14 | |
| 11310380637 | Colonial Assemblies | American representative assemblies that wished to limit the powers of crown officials (following Glorious Revolution). They gradually won control of taxation and local appointments. Members were almost always members of the upper classes of colonial society (had to own at least 1,000 acres to get elected.) | 15 | |
| 11310380638 | Power of the Purse | Eighteenth century legislatures challenged the powers of the colonial governors and won the power of the purse. The power of the purse meant that they had control over how much money was to be made by taxes, and how that money was to be spent. | 16 | |
| 11310380639 | Zenger trial | First court case in America that dealt w/ freedom of the press; Established the principle that truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel. | 17 | |
| 11310380640 | Enlightenment | A movement of ideas that occurred in Europe between 1680 and 1790. Attempted to apply reason to understand, explain and even change the world. | 18 | |
| 11310380641 | Benjamin Franklin | American intellectual, inventor, and politician | 19 | |
| 11310380642 | John Locke | 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. | 20 | |
| 11310380643 | Deism | 18th Century (1700's) concept which held that God created the world according to rational laws and that he was like a clockmaker who would not interfere in the natural order of things. | 21 | |
| 11310380644 | Great Awakening | (1730s and 1740s) Religious movement characterized by emotional preaching. Associated with the democratization of religion (Black Protestantism); new churches were established along with colleges to train clergy | 22 | |
| 11310380645 | Jonathan Edwards | A Congregationalist preacher of the Great Awakening who spoke of the fiery depths of hell. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | 23 | |
| 11310380646 | George Whitefield | Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." | 24 |
