COLONIALISM
Group #2
Nikeyla J. Miranda L.
Alexus W. Monique K.
Donivan F. Josh M.
FLASH CARDS
 Founded Rhode Island
 Roger Williams
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 Group of protestants within
the church of England
demanding the simplification of
doctrine of worship, and greater
strictness in religious discipline
 Puritans
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 The legislature of Great
Britain
 Parliament
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 The first assembly of elected
representatives of English
colonist in North America
 House Of Burgesses
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 Agreement during the
 The Commerce and Slave
constitutional convention
Trade Compromise
protecting the interests of slave
holders by forbidding congress
the power to tax the export of
goods from a state
FLASH CARDS
 Created the Northwest
territory, organized its governing
structure, and established the
procedures by which territories
were admitted as states to the
union
 Northwest ordinance of 1787
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 Set forth how the
government of the U.S. would
measure, divide and distribute
the land it had acquired from
Great Britain North and West of
the Ohio river
 Land Ordinance of 1785
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 Colony funded by investors
 Joint-stock companies
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 Describe the governments set
 Fundamental orders of
up by the Connecticut river
Connecticut
towns setting its structure and
powers
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 Law from 1688 limiting the
power of the monarchy
 English Bill of Rights
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 British act of parliament
declaring its right to tax and
legislate over the colonies
 Declaratory Act
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 Insured the small states got
an equal share of representation
in the government
 The New Jersey Plan
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 Proposal for the structure of
the U.S. government pushed for
a strong central government
 The Virginia Plan
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 Prominent puritan religious
and colonial leader who founded
the colony of Connecticut after
dissenting with puritan leaders in
Massachusetts
 Thomas Hooker
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 An agreement made among
 Connecticut plan/Great
the delegates to the
compromise
Constitutional convention that
the American government would
have 2 houses in congress
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 Early American rebellion
against British authority in
Jamestown over economics and
policy towards American Indians
 Bacon Rebellion
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 Earliest plan to unity the
colonies, spear headed by
Benjamin Franklin
 Albany plan of union
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 Declared the boundaries of
settlement for the inhabitants of
the 13 colonies to be the
Appalachians
 Proclamation of 1763
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 Opposed state interference in
religious matters and established
their own churches, educational
establishments and communities
 Religious Dissenters
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 Demonstrators and rioters
protested high taxation, the
governors high salary, high court
costs, and the assembly refusal
to issue paper money
 Shay’s Rebellion
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 Philosophical idea that the
people consent to be part of a
state and covered by its laws
 Social Contract Theory
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 Signed to end the
revolutionary war
 Negotiated by British
representatives and U.S.
delegates in 1783
 Treaty of Paris
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 Insurrection in 1784 by
settlers in the Monongahela
Valley in Western Pennsylvania
who fought against a federal tax
on liquor and distilled drinks
 Whiskey Rebellion
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 Meeting of delegates from
the colonies that discussed and
acted upon the recently passed
stamp act
 Stamp Act Congress
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 Ordered the local
governments of the colonies to
provide housing and provisions
for British Soldiers
 Quartering Act
FOCUS QUESTION
 What were the ideals of the 18th Century Enlightenment and how
were they applied in America?
ENLIGHTENMENT
 Also called the Age of Reason
 Period when European philosophers stressed the use of reason as the best
method for learning the truth
 The belief that men and women are capable of understanding the Universe
 Deists-concluded that God, having created a perfect universe, did not thereafter
intervene in its workings but rather left it alone to operate according to natural laws
 Strengthened ties between colonial and British elites
IDEAS.
 Combined confidence in human reason with skepticism toward
beliefs not founded on science or strict logic
 90% of white men and 40% of white women could write and read
enough to sign documents
 Investigate nature and conduct experiments
RELIGION
For Religion
Against
 The existence of GOD was
 The Bible conflicted with
the harmony and order of
reason: one should follow the
nature, which pointed to a
dictates of reason
rational creator
SIGNIFICANCE
 A quarter century later, Anglo-Americans drew on the
Enlightenment revolutionary ideas as they declared their
independence from Britain and created the foundations of as new
nation
 Religious revivals, known as the Great Awakening, challenged the
enlightenments most basic assumptions
KEY PEOPLE
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
 Believed that all true science would be useful, in this sense of
making everyone’s life more comfortable
 Experimented with a kite, 1752, that lightening was electricity : a
discovery that led to the lightening rod
 Created the American Philosophical Society
• “To encourage all philosophical experiments that let light into the
nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and
multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life”
SIR EDMOND ANDROS
 Guernsey, England
 One of the most popular governors in American history
 New York governor 1674-1681
 Bitterly criticized for his high-handed methods, embroiled in disputes
over boundaries and duties
 James II named his governor of the New England colonies
 Overbearing ways caused intense friction eventually causing the
Boston colonies to rebel
JAMES OGLETHORPE
 Founder of Georgia
 Began efforts to expose and correct prison abuses
 One of Britain's most active humanitarians
 Fame in parliament and military reputation secured the massive
public and private funds needed for founding GA
ROYAL GOVERNORS
 Colonial and provincial governors by extension appointed by a
king or other monarch
 William Tyron (NC) refused to allow meetings of the assembly,
prevented NC from sending representatives to the Stamp Act
Congress
JOHN PETER ZENGER
 Journalist
 Began publication in New York Weekly Journal (1733), opposition
paper to Bradford’s New York Gazette and policies of governor
William Cosby
 Attacked administrators
arrested on libel charges and imprisoned
 Trial helped establish freedom of press in America
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
 Methodist evangelist, converted to Christianity
 Known as the “Apostle of the British Empire”
NEW LIGHTS & OLD LIGHTS
 Names given to conflicting parties in the 18th centuries
 Old lights: conservative Calvinists
 New lights: liberal, unhappy with minsters
 New lights became tainted with Arianism and were driven out of
the syned to form the remonstrant syned
JONATHAN EDWARDS
 As a youth was unable to accept the Calvinists sovereignty of God
 most celebrated work The Freedom of the Will (1754)
 elected president of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in
early 1758
 Most eminent American Philosopher-theologian of his time
 Died after an experimental inoculation for smallpox