Chapter 8: British Empire in America: Growth and Conflict (1650–1750)

In 1660 and 1663, King Charles II passed the ____, which were revised in the 1670s.

These acts boosted English trade while hurting Dutch competitors. These acts restricted English goods to English ships with majority-English crews.

In 1684, an English court convicted the _______ of violating the Navigation Acts because New England ignored English trade regulations.

In 1686, King James II created the ________ from New England, New York, and New Jersey.

Sir ______, the king's appointed governor, had more power under Dominion of New England new structure.

Western Virginians believed that Sir _________ was more interested in profiting from his office than protecting the colonists from Native American raids.

In 1676, a landowner named ________ raised the standard of rebellion.

________ was a 400–500-man army that attacked Native American settlements, some of which had been at peace with the colonists, to intimidate the colonial government.

A law was passed in Virginia declaring that the child of a slave mother was also a slave.

This Atlantic-wide trade and economic interdependence linked Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America, and Europe.

The ________ transported African slaves to the Americas. Disease in these cramped quarters killed slaves and crews.

In 1739, South Carolina's _______ was the largest slave uprising in British colonies.

Massachusetts and the other New England colonies resented __________, the governor of the new Dominion of New England, taking their power.

King James II was overthrown during the _________ in England.

They became England's first constitutional monarchs by respecting Parliament's prerogatives.

Protestant rebels overthrew Catholic Maryland leaders and imprisoned ________ in Massachusetts.

In New York, a militia officer named _______ took control of the colony. He ran afoul of the new regime and was hanged as a rebel.

The “Sun King” of France, attempted to dominate Europe.

English and French wars began in 1689 and ended in 1815 with the __________.

From 1689 to 1697, America's King William's War was the ________ War.

Town in New York that was destroyed by French and Native American war parties.

Massachusetts-based troops took ______ in Acadia from the French.

War of the Spanish Succession

In 1704, French and Native Americans raided _______, Massachusetts, killing 48 and capturing 112.

The _________ forced the French to give up Newfoundland, Acadia, and other American territories after Marlborough's European victories.

It prevailed throughout British North America. Colonial assemblies were elected, but governors were appointed.

It raised duties on foreign sugar because Parliament was worried about the American sugar trade with the French in the Caribbean.

It challenged religious authorities and called for more personal and emotional worship.

He preached on "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," vividly describing hell and its horrors.

In the 1740s, his sermons drew thousands to the colonies.

It promoted personal equality in the American colonies by scorning the "establishment" and emphasizing fervor over ministerial learning.

An economic system practiced by European powers in the late seventeenth century stating that economic self-sufficiency was crucial; as a result, colonial empires were important for raw materials.

Acts passed by the British Parliament increasing the dependence of the colonies on the English for trade; these acts caused great resentment in the American colonies but were not strictly enforced.

Complex trading system that developed in this era between Europe, Africa, and the colonies; Europeans purchased slaves in Africa and sold them to the colonies, raw materials from the colonies went to Europe, while European finished products were sold in the colonies.

Voyage taken by African slaves on horribly overcrowded ships from Africa to the Americas.

Trials in Salem, Massachusetts, after which 19 people were executed as witches; historians note the class nature of these trials.

Early eighteenth-century British policy relaxing the strict enforcement of trade policies in the American colonies.

First of several Navigation Acts approved by British parliament

Bacon’s Rebellion takes place in Virginia

Dutch monopoly on slave trade ends, greatly reducing the price of slaves coming to the Americas

Glorious Revolution in England; James II removed from the throne

Beginning of the War of the League of Augsburg

Witchcraft trials take place in Salem, Massachusetts

Beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession

Enactment of the Molasses Act

Stono (slave) Rebellion in South Carolina

George Whitefield tours the American colonies—the high point of the Great Awakening

The creation of the Dominion of New England….

A major effect of the Stono Rebellion was…

What changes in the slave system of the southern colonies began in the 1730s?