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| Laws stating that when someone dies, all property goes to the eldest son. This is a British real estate and inheritance law. Was not precedent in North America, but was adopted from Britain as an attempt to imitate British laws when Americans didn’t have true identity yet. It was essential in Britain because it kept the families in power, but wasn’t really necessary in America. |
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| Practice of “deferring to the judgment of one’s superiors.” Idea that they are wiser than, more pious, and more capable of understanding law. Fundamental practice of voting for same candidate of American and British legislative bodies prior to the “republic ideology,” and “Great Awakening.” Deference kept same politicians in power over and over. |
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| Publisher of New York Weekly Journal who was arrested for printing negative articles that opposed Governor William Cosby. Zenger was arrested for libel (printing false information). He was acquitted and trial affirmed “freedom of the press” in America. |
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| Uprising in NYC of slaves and free blacks who set fire to a building in Broadway. Heavy casualties to firefighters and assisting citizens. The whites stop the rebellion and then put heavy punishments on blacks. They kill 21 Blacks. Would result in Blacks getting blamed later for the New York Conspiracy 30 years later, when it wasn’t even them. |
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| Slave revolt in South Carolina in 1739, led by the slave Jemmy who organized 20 slaves to attack nearby store, seize the weapons, and attack 20 plantations on the way down to Spanish Florida. The rebellion was influenced by exposure to Catholicism. They were intercepted by Governor William Bull but would become the largest slave uprising in British North America. Importance: led to the Negro Act of 1740, which restricted slave assembly, education and the earning of wealth. |
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| 1737. Penn family and Pennsylvania proprietors claim substantial land in the colony and demand that Lenape vacate it. Lenape appeal to Iroquois for aid, but the Iroquois decide not to intervene. Purchase led to the Lenape no longer trusting the Penn government due to their trickery, this was counter to the previously great reputation of the Penn government. |
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| Religious revival that swept through the British North American colonies in the mid-18th century. Launched by influential traveling ministers. Influenced by a sense of declension throughout the colonies. Led to the split of the Puritan church into Old lights who apposed the great awakening and the New lights who embraced the traveling ministers of the Great Awakening. |
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| the merge of England and Scotland to create the United Kingdom. This is the start of the British trade empire and the British identity that the colonists would try to adopt. |
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| This was a proclamation that set up a boundary between the Indians and the colonists. This was done to keep peace with the Indians and administer the new territories. The colonists were upset by this because some of them already owned land out there or were already settled out there and didn’t want the British controlling them. |
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| designed to bail out the British East India Company by reducing the tax on tea from India to Britain. This directly led to the Boston Tea Party, which was caused because the colonists thought the British were trying to break their boycott on British goods. |
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| A peace agreement between the Iroquois, French, and British after King Williams War. It allowed colonists expansion into the back country, because now they could purchase land instead of being attacked by Indians. |
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| liaison between the British and Native Americans. He helped to establish the Covenant Chain after King Williams War. Directly led to improve the relationship between British and Native Americans. |
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| A chain depicting the relationship between British colonists and natives. It is important because the colonists wanted to maintain the Chain, because they didn’t want to be attacked by Indians and French. |
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| The Peace of Paris ended the 7 years war. It resulted in the French being kicked out of North America and the British absorbing various new land regions in North America. The British empire shifted from a trade empire to an empire of conquest. |
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| Colonists captured this French owned Fort. Britain wound up trading it away for Madras, India. This made the colonists feel under appreciated because they captured it and had never even heard of Madras when it was traded. |
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| Important philosopher and author of second treatise on government. He is important because his idea of social contract between the government and the people and other ideals that was adopted by Thomas Jefferson into the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Economic system whereby government intervenes in economy to increase a nation’s wealth based on a notion that there is only a limited amount of wealth in the world. Mercantilist began to regard each colony as having a purpose; source of raw materials not available in Britain. Importance: It directedly upset the colonists, due to the fact that they felt used. Led to things such as the boston tea party and eventually the American Revolution. |
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| Every Year, a Portion of the English Budget was dedicated to Paying the Interest on the Debt. Importance: Allowed England to Continue to Borrow without Paying the Debt Off and still fight in the seven years war. |
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