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| 5791243945 | Virginia House of Burgesses | - Established in 1619, Virginia's colonists organized this first representative assembly in America; |  | 0 |
| 5791246746 | Joint-Stock Company | Companies that pooled the savings of people of moderate means and supported trading ventures that seemed potentially profitable; |  | 1 |
| 5791247954 | Mercantilism | Economic policy of most European kingdoms in the 17th century; It looked upon trade, colonies, and the accumulation of wealth as a basis for a country's military and political strength; |  | 2 |
| 5791250414 | . Navigation Acts | England's Merchantilist Acts (1650-1673); 1. Trade to and from the colonies could only be carried by English or Colonial built ships with only English or Colonial crews. 2. All goods imported into the colonies, except for perishables, could pass only through ports in England. 3. Specified or "Enumerated" goods could be exported to England only; This included tobacco then the list got larger; Had both positive and negative effects on the colonies; |  | 3 |
| 5791252487 | Indentured Servants | . Indentured Servants- Under contract with a master or landowner who paid for their passage, usually young people from the British Isles, agreed to work usually 4-7 years in return for room and board; After the contract they gained their freedom and either worked for wages or obtained land; |  | 4 |
| 5791253551 | Benjamin Franklin | - By far the most popular and successful American writer of the 18th century was a remarkable jack-of-all trades B.F.; Won fame for his work with electricity and his development of bifocal eyeglasses and the Franklin Stove; His witty aphorisms and advice were collected in His Poor Richard's Almanac, a best selling book was annually revised from 1732 to 1757; |  | 5 |
| 5791255657 | Great Awakening | - In the first decades of the 18th Century ministers gave less emphasis than in Puritan times on human sinfulness and the perils of damnation, BUT in the 1730's and 1740's a dramatic change occurred that swept through the colonies with the force of a hurricane; The Great Awakening was a movement characterized by fervent expressions of religious feeling among masses of people; Also caused divisions in the Church between those supporting (New Lights) and those condemning (Old Lights) the teachings |  | 6 |
| 5791256737 | Jonathan Edwards | .- A Reverend (Minister) who expressed Great Awakening ideas in a series of sermons, one called: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"; He argued that God was rightfully angry with human sinfulness; Individuals who expressed penitence could be saved by Gods grace, but those who paid no heed to God's Commandments would suffer eternal damnation; He influenced New England; |  | 7 |
| 5791259044 | religious | - Sectarian- The first colonial colleges promoted the doctrines of a particular ____________ group; The Puritans founded Harvard, Anglicans opened William and Mary, Congregationalists started Yale; The Great Awakening prompted the creation of 5 new colleges between 1746-1769: College of New Jersey (Princeton) Presbyterian 1746; King's College, Columbia, Anglican 1754, Rhode Island College (Brown) Baptist 1764, Queens College (Rutgers) Dutch Reformed 1766; Dartmouth College, (Dartmouth) Congregationalists 1769; |  | 8 |
| 5791263637 | Hereditary Aristocracy | - There was no __________________________; But a narrow class system, based on economics, was developing with Wealthy land owners at the top; Craft workers and small farmers made up the majority of the common people; |  | 9 |
| 5791265106 | John Peter Zenger | - New York editor and publisher who was brought to trial on a charge of Libel in which he criticized New York's royal governor; |  | 10 |
| 5791266580 | Son's and Daughters of Liberty | - Secret society organized to intimidate tax agents |  | 11 |
| 5791267467 | French and Indian War | - In Europe it was called the Seven Years War; French and Native Americans v. Great Britain and the Colonists; |  | 12 |
| 5791269636 | Albany Plan of Union | . (1754)- Delegates from seven colonies adopted a plan developed by Benjamin Franklin which provided for an inter-colonial govt. which recruited troops and collected taxes from various colonies, the plan never took effect; but it set the precedent; |  | 13 |
| 5791270861 | Quartering Act | (1765)- Required colonists to provide food and living quarters to British soldiers; |  | 14 |
| 5791272358 | Stamp Act | (1765)- First direct tax; Required stamps be placed on all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and advertisements; |  | 15 |
| 5791273241 | Writs of Assistance | - A general license to search anywhere; All that an official needed; |  | 16 |
| 5791279919 | Deism- | Believed that God had created natural laws in creating the Universe, but the role of divine intervention is minimal; |  | 17 |
| 5791281333 | John Locke | - His book Two Treatises of Government, it reasoned that although government is supreme it is bound to follow "natural laws"; There was a right to restore liberty when threatened; He believed in each person's right to life, liberty, property; |  | 18 |
