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Sumptuary Law
are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption
Navigation Act
a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies,started in 1651.
Staple Act
This Act determined that England had exclusive rights to all goods passed between it and Europe. Goods en route to the colonies and must pass through England first to be re-exported from England.
Plantation Duty
a law requiring money collected in colonial ports to be equal to english customs durties
Half-Way Covenant
was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose
Nathaniel Bacon
the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died
Great Migration
over twenty Thousand puritans migrated to the New World between 1630 and 1643
Charles II
Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II King of Great Britain and Ireland in Edinburgh on 6 February 1649, the English Parliament instead passed a statute that made any such proclamation in England and Ireland unlawful. England entered the period known to history as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth and the country was a de facto republic, led by Oliver Cromwell
Royal Africa Company
was a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants once the former retook the English throne in the English Restoration of 1660. It was led by James, Duke of York, Charles II's brother
Enumerated Goods
Those goods that were taxed individually from the colonists to England.
Nat Turner
was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths
Jamestown Massacre
they came into the whites houses, Suddenly the Indians grabbed any tools or weapons available to them and killed any English settlers that were in sight, including men, women and children of all ages.
Bacon’s Rebellion
was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon
Edmund Andros
was an early colonial English governor in North America, and head of the Dominion of New England for most of its three-year existence
Restoration
The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
William and Mary
Chartered on February 8, 1693, by King William III and Queen Mary II as the second college in the American colonies
Puritan Commonwealth
An historical review of the Puritan government in Massachusetts in its civil and ecclesiastical relations from its rise to the abrogation of the first charter.
Stono uprising
was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
mercantilism
is an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of capital, that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable," and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another.
Sir William Berkeley
was a colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors of the Colony of Carolina; he was appointed to these posts by by King Charles I of England, of whom he was a favourite.
Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies
.he rich became richer and bought more and poor became poorer
glorious revolution
was the overthrow of King James II of England
Slave Trade
refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean mainly to Brazil and the Caribbeans.
Jacob Leisler
was a German-born American colonist\, he led an insurrection dubbed Leisler's Rebellion in colonial New York, seizing control of the colony until he was captured and executed in New York City for treason against William and Mary.