Group 2

Front 1

Pequot Wars

Back 1

War between the Pequot Indian Tribe and the English, with the help of the Naragansetts Tribe. It was the Pequot Nation's destruction.

Front 2

Guerrilla Warfare

Back 2

Hit and run attacks.

Front 3

Pacifists

Back 3

Rejection of the use of force, violence and war.

Front 4

Royal Colonies

Back 4

Colony ruled directly by reigning monarch of England.

Front 5

Religious Toleration

Back 5

Willingness to allow others the right to choose how they worship.

Front 6

Mercantilism

Back 6

Economic interests of a nation, strengthened by the government by protecting home industries, increasing trades and increasing exports over imports.

Front 7

Import Duties

Back 7

A tax levied on goods coming into a country.

Front 8

Salutary Neglect

Back 8

17th/18th century policy of deliberately failing to enforce mercantile laws.

Front 9

Enlightenment

Back 9

Reliance on reason and experience rather than dogma and tradition, with emphasis on humanitarian political goals and social progress.

Front 10

John Locke

Back 10

Philosopher during the Enlightenment who talked about the "natural rights of man" - life, liberty and property.

Front 11

Social Contract

Back 11

People agree to obey a government if their natural rights are protected. If the government ever became tyrannical, people no longer need to obey it.

Front 12

Great Awakening

Back 12

Revival of religion that swept through the colonies in the 1740's.

Front 13

Sons of Liberty

Back 13

Groups formed in colonial America to resist Great Britain's Stamp Act.

Front 14

Boston Massacre

Back 14

Outbreak in Boston in 1770 against British troops, few citizens were killed.

Front 15

Intolerable Acts

Back 15

Laws passed by Britain after the Boston Tea Party which: 1) closed Bostons harbors until the colonists paid for the losses. 2) any royal officials involved were tried in Britain. 3) England threw out the cities charter. 4) New Quartering Act make colonists house the British troops in their private homes.

Front 16

Boston Tea Party

Back 16

Protest against British duty on tea imported by the American colonies.

Front 17

Martial Law

Back 17

British troops brought into Boston to enforce British law.

Front 18

First Continential Congress

Back 18

Meeting of representative from each colony held in Philadelphia in September of 1774 to decide what steps should be taken to defend the colonies against the tryanical ruller, Britain.

Front 19

Albany Congress

Back 19

A congress that convened to draw up a treaty with the Indians and the colonies in support of British struggle against France.

Front 20

Common Sense

Back 20

Phamplet written by Thomas Paine in 1776 calling for separation of the colonies from Great Britain.