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Flashcards by daydreamingheath, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mercantilism | Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national health |
| Enumerated Products | Items produced in he colonies and enumerated it acts of Parliament that could be legally shipped from the colony of origin only to specified locations. |
| Age of Enlightenment | Major intellectual movements occurring in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. |
| Halfway Covenant | Plan adopted in 1662 by New England clergy to deal with problem of declining church membership, allowing children of baptized parent to be baptized whether or not their parents had experienced conversion. |
| Great Awakening | 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. |
| New Lights | People who experienced conversion in the Great Awekening |
| Dominion of New England | James II's failed plan of 1689 to combine eight northern colonies into a single large province, to be governed by a royal appointee with no elective assembly. |
| Glorious Revelotion | Bloodless revolt that occurred in England in 1688 when parliamentary leaders incited William of Orange, a protestant, to assume the English throne. |
| Virtual Representation | The notion that parliamentary member represented the interest of the nation as a whole, not those of the particular district that elected them. |
| Actual Representation | The practice whereby elected representatives normally reside in the districts and are responsive to local interests. |
| King Williams War | The first Anglo-French conflict in North America (1689-97), the American phase of Europe's War of the League of Augsburg. |
| Queen Anne's War | American phase (1702-13) of Europe's War of the Spanish Succession. |
| Country, or "Real Whig," ideology | Strain of thought first appearing in England in the late seventeenth century in response to the growth of governmental power and a national debt. Main ideas stressed the threat to personal liberty posed by a standing army and high taxes and emphasized the need for property holders to retain the right to consent to taxation. |
| Grand Settlement of 1701 | Separate peace treaties negotiated by Iroquois diplomats at Montreal and Albany that marked the beginning of Iroquois neutrality in conflicts between the French and the British in North America. |
| King George's War | The third Anglo-French war in North America (1744-48), part of the European conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession. |
| Treaty of Lancaster | Negotiations in 1744 whereby Iroquois chiefs sold Virginia land speculators the right to trade at the Forks of the Ohio |
| Albany Plan of Union | Plan put forward in 1754 calling for an intercolonial union to manage defense and Indian affairs. The plan was rejected by participants at the Albany Congress. |
| French and Indian War | The last of the Anglo-French colonial wars (1754-63) and the first in which fighting began in North America. The war ended with France's defeat. |
| Treaty of Paris | The formal end to British hostilities against France and Spain in Feb. 1763. |
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