AP Review: British Colonies Flashcards

6535337696	Restoration Colonies	Colonies founded under Charles II including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas	0
6535354872	Proprietorships	the King granted the colony's land to leaders who owned all the land and ruled them as they wished as long as they were loyal to England	1
6535362332	Carolina Colony	Given to proprietors, the colony passed a constitution that legally abolished the Church of England and created serfs to work for a few nobles	2
6535372399	Pennsylvania	Founded by William Penn, a quaker, the colony was a religious refuge for Quakers and guaranteed religious freedom	3
6535380693	The Frame of Government (1681)	Constitution of Pennsylvania, created religious freedom with no state church and political equality by allowing all free property owning men the right to vote	4
6535395442	The Navigation Acts	First passed in 1651, these acts required that colonial goods be carried on English or English colonial ships and banned foreign traders, meant to boost English economy's benefit from colonies	5
6535408925	The Dominion of New England	In 1686, English government merged Connecticut and Rhode Island with Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony to form a new colony more easily governed from England	6
6535418564	The Glorious Revolution	The English revolted against Catholic King James II and put in place protestant monarchs William and Mary who ruled as "constitutional monarchs" sharing power with parliament	7
6535437481	The Middle Passage	The dangerous and brutal trip across the Atlantic from African slave markets to slave plantations in the Americas in the 1600s and 1700s	8
6535446949	The Stono Rebellion	A slave revolt in South Carolina in which African slaves killed whites until they were repressed by the colony's militia in 1739	9
6535458586	Salutary Neglect	British policy of allowing self-rule in American colonies in exchange for increasing trade and import revenue from colonial economy. Over time, this led to power of representative assemblies in British colonies.	10
6535473446	Mercantilism	System of political economy based on government regulation, including laws that controlled colonial commerce to enrich the home country.	11
6535483158	Robert Walpole	Whig leader in British Parliament who ruled through patronage that exchanged favors for government offices. Patronage officials knew little and did little about colonies.	12