History Midterm Ch 3
Chapter 3 Vocabulary-History
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- Sir Edmund Andros
- veteran military officer from an aristocratic English family
- Glorious Revolution
- William and Mary took over-no blood shed
- George Washington
- age 22, Fort Necessity-militia attacked
- French and Indian War
- 4th war between GB and France for control of NA (7 yr war)
- cash crop
- crop grown primarily for sale rather than for the farmers own use
- William Pitt
- an energetic, self-confident politician from Pennsylvania
- mercantilism
- 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
- Great Awakening
- resulting religious revival 1730s-1740s
- Proclamation Act
- banned all settlement west of the Appalachians
- Pontiac
- Ottawa leader who recognized that the French loss in the French and Indian War was a loss for the Native Americans
- Navigation Acts
- a series of laws enacted by Parliament, 1651, to tighten England's control of trade to the American Colonies
- Ben Franklin
- first outstanding Enlightenment figure
- John Edwards
- NH, Massachusetts-first member of clergy who sought to revive the intensity of original Puritan vision
- parliament
- the legislative body in England
- slaves
- people who were considered the property of others
- George Grenville
- prime minister 1763-chosen financial expert of King George III, asked Parliament to enforce the Sugar Act
- New France
- French colony in North America
- Enlightenment
- an 18th century intellectual movement that emphasized use of reason and scientific method as obtaining knowledge
- Triangular Trade
- transatlantic trading network
- Middle Passage
- the middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle
- Sugar Act
- Halved duty of foreign-made molasses, placed duties on certain imports, strengthened enforcement of law allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice-admiralty court
- Dominion of New England
- the land from southern Maine to NJ (Charles 2nd)
- Salutary Neglect
- an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies continued economic loyalty