Ap History Chapter 3 Vocab

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Sumptuary Law

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they were laws that regulated and reinforced social hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.

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Stono Uprising

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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.

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Royal Africa Company

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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

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Charles II

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was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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Great Migration

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The Puritan migration to New England was very marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a while. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands of the West Indies, especially the sugar rich island of Barbados, 1630-40. They came in family groups, rather than as isolated individuals and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion

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Nathaniel Bacon

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was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery

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Navigation Act

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a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651. Their goal was to force colonial development into lines favorable to England, and stop direct colonial trade with the Netherlands, France and other European countries.

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Mercantilism

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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.

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Nat Turner

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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

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John Winthrop

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one of several wealthy Puritan merchants and business men who in 1628 obtained a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company from King Charles I. In 1630 he led a group of colonists to the New World, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River.

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Cotton Mather

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a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister

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Jacob Leisler

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He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688 and later served as the acting Lieutenant Governor of New York. Beginning in 1689, 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.

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Glorious Revolution (England and New York)

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also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of English Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England together with his wife Mary II of England.

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Sir William Berkeley

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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.

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staple act

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the second navigation act

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plantation duty

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the plantation duty act was a law requiring money collected in colonial ports to be equal to english customs durties (it was part of the navigation acts)

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half way covenant

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The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It 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.

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slave trade

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the trading of slaves between africa and west coloniea and americas

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economic gap in the chesapeake colonies

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the economic difference between the chesapeake colonies

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enumerated goods

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Products/goods produced by the colonies that could/can only be shipped to england

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jamestown massacre

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The Starving Time ended with the deaths of the vast majority of settlers living in Jamestown and nearly brought the colony to an end. The cause is clearly convoluted, but there is no doubt that the Powhatan played their role in the deaths of a great many settlers that horrible winter.

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Bacons rebellion

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a revolt of all classes against the ruling governor of virginia

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edmund andros

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governor of all colonies between maine and new jersey

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restoration

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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.

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king james war

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King James II of England, unlike his profligate brother, Charles II, was extremely religious, and his religion was that of Rome. The large majority of the people of England were Protestants; but they would have submitted to a Catholic king had he not used his official power to convert the nation to Catholicism

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william and mary

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took much of the political power and gave it to the church

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puritan commonwealth

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the commonwealth of virginia