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26 Cards in this Set
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an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies' continued economic loyalty
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Salutary Neglect
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1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing the Western Hemisphere along an imaginary north-south line
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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1675 war between Chief Metacom and the united North East Indian tribes and the colonists
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King Philips War
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a colony under the direct control of the English monarch
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Royal Colony
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a crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than for personal value
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Cash Crop
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a member of one of the Puritan groups that denying the possibility of reform within the church of England established their own independent congregations
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Seperatists
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a person who had contracted to work for another for a limited period, often in return for travel expenses, shelter, and food
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Indentured Servants
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a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s
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Great Awakening
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a transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America
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Triangle Trade
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an 18th century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge
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Enlightenment
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an economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and, power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade
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Mercantilism
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businesses in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose
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Joint-Stock-Company
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Italian who in 1492 sailed from Spain in search of the West Indies
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Chritopher Columbus
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members of a group that wanted to eliminate all traced of the Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England
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Puritans
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members of the Society of Friends, a religious group persecuted for its beliefs in 17th century England, who settled in Pennsylvania and believed that Gods' inner light burned inside of everyone; this group opposed war, refused military service, and dressed in plain clothing
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Quakers
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name of the English colony formerly controlled by the Dutch called New Netherland
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New York (York)
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one of the Spaniards who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conqueror in the 16th century
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Hernanda Cortes
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Person who believed the government should not punish settlers for religious beliefs so he fled and established Providence, which later became Rhode Island
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Roger Williams
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series of laws passed by Parliament over the monarch
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Glorious Revolution
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series of laws restricting colonial trade in the mid-late 1600s
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Navagation Acts
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the establishment of outlying settlements by a parent country
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Colonization
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the first major conflict between the settlers and Native Americans occurring in Connecticut in 1637 and resulting in near destruction of the Pequot nation
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Pequot War
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the name of the first attempt to establish a colony for England in the New World
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Roanoke
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the transportation of slaves from Africa to the West Indies
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Middle Passage
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transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the western hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere
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Columbian Exchange
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Virginia Company's policy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each family member who accompanied him
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Headright System
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