Chapters 3 and 4

Unit II Flashcards

Series of bloody conflicts, occurring between 1640s and 1680s, during

which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region.

Beaver Wars

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French for “woods runner,” an independent fur trader in New

France.

Coureurs de bois

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An alliance between the Iroquois Confederacy and the colony of New

York, which sought to establish Iroquois dominance over all other

tribes.

Covenant Chain

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The overthrow of the established government in the Albermarle

region of North Carolina by back country men in 1677.

Culpeper’s Rebellion

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Items produced in the colonies and enumerated in acts of Parliament that could be legally shipped from

the colony of origin only to specified locations.

Enumerated goods

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William Penn’s constitution for Pennsylvania, which included a provision allowing for religious

freedom.

Frame of Government

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Tremendous religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle Colonies and New England in the 1740s and then spreading to

the southern colonies.

Great Awakening

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The legislature of colonial Virginia. First organized in 1619, it was the first institution of representative

government in the English colonies.

House of Burgesses

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Individuals who contracted to serve a master for a period of four to

seven years in return for payment of the servant’s passage to America.

Indentured servants

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The third Anglo-French war in North America (1744-1748), part of the European conflict known as the

War of the Austrian Succession.

King George’s War

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Conflict in New England (1675-1676) between Wampanoags,

Narragansetts, and other Indian peoples against English settlers;

sparked by English encroachments on native lands.

King Phillip’s War

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The first of a series of colonial struggles between England and

France, these conflicts occur principally on the frontiers of

northern New England and New York between 1689-1697.

King William’s War

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A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in

1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay.

Massachusetts Bay Company

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The first document of self-government in North America.

Mayflower Compact

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Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth.

Mercantilism

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The voyage between West Africa and the New World slave colonies.

Middle Passage

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Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of

land and trade in eastern Connecticut.

Pequot War

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Settlers of Plymouth Colony, who viewed themselves as spiritual

wanderers.

Pilgrims

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A village of communities of the Chesapeake united under Chief Wahunsonacook, who was called King Powhatan by the colonists.

Powhatan Confederacy

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A colony created when the English monarch granted a huge tract of land to an individual or group of individuals, who become “lords

proprietor.”

Proprietary colony

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Rebellion in 1689 of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico against their

Spanish overlords.

Pueblo Revolt

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Movements to purify and reform the English Church.

Puritanism

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Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth’s reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church. Puritans led the settlement of Massachusetts

Bay Colony.

Puritans

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Members of the Society of Friends, a radical religious group that arose

in the mid-17th century. Quakers rejected formal theology, focusing

instead on the Holy Spirit that dwelt within them.

Quakers

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American phase (1702-1713) of Europe's War of the Spanish

Succession.

Queen Anne’s War

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Members of an offshoot branch of Puritanism. Separatists believed that

the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed and hence

were convinced they must “separate” from it to save their souls.

Separatists

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War fought in Europe, North America, and India between 1756 and 1753, pitting France and its

allies against Great Britain and its allies.

Seven Years’ War

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A series of laws passed mainly in the Southern colonies in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to defend the status of slaves and

codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.

Slave codes

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One of the largest and most violent slave uprisings during the Colonial

Period that occurred in Stono, South Carolina.

Stono Rebellion

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A group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in

1607.

Virginia Company

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Reference

Faragher, J. M., Buhle, M. J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S. H. (2009). Out ofmany: A history of the American people, Vol. I (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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