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| A term used by Christians to identify anyone who is not a Christian or Jew. |
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| The relationship between imports and exports. The balance is the difference between imports and exports. The favorable balance of trade occurs when a country exports more than it imports. |
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| A group of colonial products that had to be shipped from the colony of origin to England or another English colony. (The most important ones were sugar and tobacco.) |
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| Indian peoples who spoke some dialect of the Algonquian language family. |
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| The land above the fall line but below the Appalachian Mountains.. |
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| An Indian war often initiated by a widow or bereaved relative who insisted that her male relatives provide captives to repair the loss. |
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| A confederation of the Indian nations centered in the Mohawk Valley who were very active in the fur trade. They first worked with the Dutch and then the English, and they were especially successful in using adoption as a means of remaining strong. |
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| An agreement negotiated by Governor Edmund Andrus in 1677 that linked the colony of New York to the Iroquois Five Nations and was later expanded to include other colonies and Indian peoples. |
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| Originally, a word used to identify tribal prophets or medicine men. Later, it was also used to describe the ceremonies held by them. |
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| (AKA King Philip's War) A war that devastated much of southern New England in 1675-1676. It began as a conflict between Metacom's Wampanoags and Plymouth Colony but soon engulfed all of the New England's colonies and most of the region's Indian nations. |
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| The Christian Indians of New England. |
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| The most serious challenge to royal authority in the mainland English colonies prior to 1775. It erupted in Virginia in 1676 after the governor and Nathaniel Bacon, the principal rebel, could not agree on how best to wage war against frontier Indians. |
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| The name of an obscure sect of Scottish religious extremists who favored the assassination of Charles and James of England. The term was used to denote one of the two leading political parties of late 17th-century England. |
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| A term for Irish Catholic peasants who murdered Protestant landlords. It was used to describe the followers of Charles II and became one of the names of the two major political parties in England. |
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| A relic of feudalism, a quitrent was a small, require annual fee attached to a piece of land. It differed from other rents in that nonpayment did not lead to rejection from the land but to a suit for debt. |
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| The overthrow of King James II by Whigs and Tories, who invited William of Orange to England. William landed in November 1688, the army defected to him, James fled to France, and in early 1689, Parliament offered the throne to William and his wife Mary, a daughter of James. Contemporaries call the event "glorious" because no blood was shed in England. |
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| The overthrow of King James II by Whigs and Tories, who invited William of Orange to England. William landed in November 1688, the army defected to him, James fled to France, and in early 1689, Parliament offered the throne to William and his wife Mary, a daughter of James. Contemporaries call the event "glorious" because no blood was shed in England. |
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| About 150 people were accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts between March and September in 1692. During the summer trials 19 were hanged and 1 was pressed to death after he refused to stand trial. All of those executed insisted they were innocent. Of the 50 who confessed, none were executed. |
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| The state agreed to pay the interest due to its creditors before all other obligations. |
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| The most successful Indian uprising in American history, the Pueblo people rose against the Spanish in 1680, killed most Spanish missionaries, devastated Spanish buildings, and forced the surviving Spaniards to retreat down to the Rio Grande. The Pueblos maintained their autonomy for about a decade, but Spain reasserted control in the early 1690s. |
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| The area of French and Indian cooperation west of Niagra and south of the Great Lakes. No one exercised sovereign power over this area, but the French used Indian rituals to negotiate treaties with their Algonquian trading partners, first against the Iroquois and later against the British. |
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| An Algonquian word that means "great mountain" and that was used by Indians of the Middle ground to designate the governor of New France. |
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| A legal device that required a land-owner to keep his estate intact and pass it on to his heir. |
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| A legal device that required a land-owner to pass on his estate to his eldest son. |
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