| salutary neglect | an english policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies' continued economic loyalty. |
| 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. |
| Parliament | the legislative body of England. |
| Navigation Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliament, beginning in 1651, to tighten England's control of trade in its American colonies. |
| Glorious Revolution | the transfer of the British monarchy from James II to William and Mary in 1688-1689. |
| Dominion of New England | refers to the land from southern Maine to New Jersey that was united under one ruler in the 1680s. |
| Sir Edmund Andros | The ruler of the Dominion of New England appointed by King James II. |
| cash crop | a crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than for personal use. |
| slave | a person who becomes the property of others. |
| triangular trade | the 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. |
| middle passage | the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America. |
| Stono Rebellion | a 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws. |
| Enlightenment | an 18th century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Philadelphia inventor, writer, and political leader. |
| Jonathan Edwards | Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening. |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s. |