Chapters 3 and 4: Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 King Philip's War | A war lasting from 1675 to 1676 which resulted in alcohol being introduced to Native Americans, the Native American way of life being abandoned, and the English colonists taking land from the Native Americans |
| Praying Towns | Indian villages trying to convert to Christianity in the hope that they might be on the same page as the English colonists in the scheme of religion. Eventually, these enclosed the Indians, forcing them to starve and decimating Indian populations. |
| Theocratic | Governed by God |
| Utopia | An imagined perfect place or state of things |
| Pillory | A wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, enabling the public to assault or ridicule a person so imprisoned |
| Epitaph | Words written in memory of a person who has died on a gravestone |
| Dome-ing | Assessing wealth in an effort to place people in a social hierarchy without creating a hereditary aristocracy |
| Economics | What was the colonial hierarchy principally based on? |
| Sumptuary laws | Laws adopted from England concerning how to dress appropriately. If a colonists dressed above his/her class, he/she was fined. |
| Rhode Island and Pennsylvania | Which of the English colonies were most religiously tolerant? (Answer 2) |
| Massachusetts Bay | Which of the English colonies was least religiously tolerant? |
| "Middling Class" | Social class that desired all the fine things in life such as pewter, fine fabrics, and ceramics although financial ability didn't always allow this. |
| Bundling | To expedite courtship, colonists used this practice to allow young people to court overnight. |
| Itinerant | Traveling from place to place to perform a duty |
| Great Awakening | Period of religious revival that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Anglicize | To make more English |
| Write, Sing | "The victors ______ about history, the oppressed _________ about history." --Irish saying |
| McCarthyism | The policy of hunting out suspected subversives |
| Crucible | A severe test or trial |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Declaration by the British king ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalacians because he didn't want to pay for the defense required to hold that land to the west of the mountain range. However, the colonists refused to listen to the king, and settled the western area anyway. |
| Spectral Evidence | In the Salem witch trials, judges allowed reports of dreams and visions in which the accused appeared as the devil's agent to be introduced as testimony. The accused had no defense. The witch trials ended for the most part when this type of evidence was disallowed. |
| Enlightenment | Philosophical and intellectual movement that began in Europe in the 18th century. It stressed the application of reason to solve social and scientific problems. |
| Navigation Acts | A series of commercial restrictions passed by Parliament to regulate colonial commerce in an effort to give England the better half of the stick. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | An armed rebellion from 1675 to 1676 in which Nathaniel Bacon rebelled against the royal governor, Sir William Berkeley. Although some advocates wanted to eliminate the special privileges in government, Bacon was mainly after sharing in the Indian trade. |
| Albany Plan | Plan of intercolonial cooperation piloted by Ben Franklin in 1754. If it were passed, it would have consisted of a Grand Council consisted of elected officials that could tax the people and organize common defense. Parliament rejected the plan, fearing it would undermine the purpose of the crown. |
| Leisler's Rebellion | After the Glorious Revolution, Jacob Leisler seized the New York government in opposition of the rising Anglo-Dutch class. The leader of this rebellion, was eventually executed when he did not accept that Henry Sloughter had come from William and Mary without proof. |
| Mercantilism | Economic theory that was based upon the assumption that the world had a limited supply of wealth and in order to increase wealth, a nation must export more goods than it imported, resulting in the British demand of colonial raw materials. |
| Backcountry | Edge of settlement stretching from western Pennsylvania to George |
| French and Indian War | Imperial war from 1754-1763 in which the British eventually expelled the French from the North American mainland. |
| Enumerated Goods | Essential raw materials that were grown in the colonies, such as tobacco, sugar, and rice, which could only be shipped to England or the other colonies. |
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