Chapter 3 Vocab

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Sumptuary Law

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a law imposing restraint on luxury, esp by limiting personal expenditure or by regulating personal conduct in religious and moral spheres

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navigation Act

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any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.

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Staple Act

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parliament law that stated that stated goods could not be imported into america without first passing through english colonies.

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Plantation Act

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A “complicated piece of legislation” is how historian David S. Lovejoy describes the duty on plantations. The Plantation Duty Act limited American trade; it attempted to force planters to trade exclusively with England and her colonies and to redirect revenue to Great Britain.

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Half- way Covenant

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In 1662, several congregations met and approved the "Half-Way Covenant," a move designed to liberalize membership rules and bolster the church's position in the community. Henceforth, children of partial members could be baptized and, with evidence of a conversion experience, aspire to full membership.

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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

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Great Migration

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colloquial term generally used to designate the migration of African Americans from southern states to northern cities following World War One

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Charles II

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Charles II was the British monarch whose reign marked the period known as the Restoration -- the restoration of the monarchy after years of being a republic under Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.

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Royal Africa Company

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Founded in 1672, the Royal African Company was granted a similar monopoly in the slave trade. Between 1680 and 1686, the Company transported an average of 5,000 slaves a year.

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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

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Mercantilism

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An economic doctrine that flourished in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries

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Sir William Berkley

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was governor of Virginia longer than any other man, from 1642 until 1652 and from 1660 until his death in 1677. He advocated economic diversification and promoted trade between the colonists and the Virginia Indians.

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Economic Gap in the Chesapeake Colonies

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it highlights the fact that the Chesapeake and Lower Colonies produced cash crops

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Glorious Revolution

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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 Parliamentarians

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Slave Trade

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also known as the transatlantic slave trade , was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World

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Jacob Leisler

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was a German-born American colonist. He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688 and later served as the acting Lieutenant Governor of New England

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Cotton Mather

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February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow

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John Winthrop

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governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, b. Edwardstone, near Groton, Suffolk, England. Of a landowning family, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, came into a family fortune, and became a government administrator with strong Puritan leanings

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Enumerated Goods

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to ascertain the number of

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Nat Turner

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American black slave leader: led uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, 1831.

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Jamestown Massacre

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1622 massacre when Powhatan Indians attacked Jamestown and outlying Virginia settlements

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Bacon's Rebellion

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an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.

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Edmund Andros

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British governor in the American colonies

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Restoration

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the re-establishment of the monarchy in 1660 or the reign of Charles II

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King James War

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and he never knew this war was going on BEFORE his SALVATION through the BLOOD of the Lamb. YET this war has been going on

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William And Mary

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began their marriage under duress. She was twelve years younger than he and found him repulsive. Although terribly homesick while living in Holland, she eventually came to love both the man and his country.

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Puritan Commonwealth

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Anne Hutchinson came to be viewed as a threat to the Puritan's pure commonwealth. They labelled her antinomian (anti-law) That such practices took place suggests the degree to which even the Puritan commonwealth could be corrupted.