US History Ch3
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- subsistence farming
- Farming in order to support only your own household
- Headright system
- A system in which an American colonist pays for the transportation of a servant to colonies in exchange for 4-7 years of labor.
- English Bill of Rights
- A document abolishing a king's absolute power, his ability to raise an army without Parliament, excessive bail and cruel/unusual punishments. Also granted free speech to Parliament, granted rights to petition the king and the right to a fair jury.
- Sir Edmund Andros
- First governor-general of the Dominion who ruled as the king would, attempting to abolish Puritanism and self-government.
- Nathaniel Bacon
- A planter who led the rebellion by poor farmers to improve conditions for many farmers.
- Mercantilism
- A governmental philosophy which professed that in order to become wealthy and powerful, a nation had to accumulate gold and silver by trading.
- Bills of exchange
- Credit slips English traders could give to Caribbean sugar planters in exchange for sugar.
- Cash Crop
- Crops grown for market, instead of food
- Natural Rights
- Locke's idea of people's inherent rights to life, liberty, and property, as outlined in "Two Treatises of Government"
- Toleration Act
- An English document granting freedom of worship to almost all Protestants.
- Selectmen
- Men chosen to manage town affairs in New England colonies.
- Indentured Servants
- Poor farmers forced off the land in Europe after the enclosure movement who sold labor in order to come to America
- Plantations
- Large commercial estates where many laborers lived on the land and cultivated the crops for the landowner
- Glorious Revolution
- The bloodless transfer of power from James II to William instigated by Parliament in 1688.
- Dominion of New England
- A combination of most New England states in one single system, controlled by a single government.
- Middle Passage
- A trade route which most African slaves took en route to America
- John Locke
- Writer of "Two Treatises of Government", where he explained the basis of political obligation and justified revolution.
- Staple Act
- An act which required everything the colonies traded had to go through England.
- Navigation Act
- An act which stated any goods transferred to and from the colonies had to be taken on English ships with 75% English crews.
- Sir William berkeley
- Governor of Virginia at the time of Bacon's rebellion
- Slave code
- A set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between slaves and free people.
- Triangular trade
- A 3 way trade between New England merchants, Caribbean colonies, and England.