mercantilism ✔✔✔- the economic philosophy that control of imports was the key to enhancing the health of a nation and that
colonies existed to serve the home country as a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured goods.
Navigation Acts ✔✔✔- Series of laws passed by England in 1651 stating that English trade must be transported on English ships.
Bradford ✔✔✔- early leader of the Plymouth Colony and the composer of the "Mayflower Compact" in 1620.
William Penn ✔✔✔- founder of the Quaker settlement that later became the state of Pennsylvania.
Quakers ✔✔✔- "Society of Friends" founded in England in the 17th century by George Fox. They find elaborate church
organizations unnecessary and that each individual is responsible to God.
George Whitefield ✔✔✔- Anglican minister, known for his work in the First Great Awakening and his assistance to John and
Charles Wesley in founding the Methodist Church.
Parliament ✔✔✔- a legislative body- such as that in Great Britain- that is usually led by a Prime Minister.
Example: In Britain, this group passed the Intolerable Acts that angered American colonists before the Revolutionary War.
Salutary Neglect ✔✔✔- British policy of enforcing few of the restrictions legally placed on their North American colonies in the
17th and 18th centuries.
First Continental Congress ✔✔✔- the group of representatives from twelve North American Colonies who met in 1774 in
response to the Intolerable Acts
Evangelical ✔✔✔- Protestant Christian movement which stresses, among other things, a "born again" religious conversion,
active conversion of others, and strict biblical interpretations.
Example: First and Second Great Awakenings, Jerry Falwell in the late-20th Century.
Puritans ✔✔✔- Radical protestant followers of John Calvin seeking purity of church and doctrine. Many emigrated to North
America from 1620-1640s to separate themselves from the Church of England and its tolerance of Roman Catholic practices.
, Protestant ✔✔✔- Christian religious branch that split from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century.
Example: Most U.S. Presidents have belonged to this branch of Christianity.
✔✔✔- attempt by Benjamin Franklin to form a single governing body of the colonies in 1754, just as the French and Indian War
was beginning.
Fort Duquesne ✔✔✔- This fortress- in what is now Pittsburgh- was a major battle site in the Seven Years War/French and
Indian War, and a major victory for the British.
Seven Years War ✔✔✔- mid-18th century conflict was between England and France and took place in Europe, the Americas,
Africa, and Asia.
Join or Die ✔✔✔- political cartoon drawn by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, urging colonists to unify in what would be the Seven
Years War (French and Indian War).
Declaration of Independence ✔✔✔- act passed by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 declaring the thirteen
American Colonies independent of British rule.
King George III ✔✔✔- ruler of Great Britain during the Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and War of 1812.
Chrispus Attucks ✔✔✔- First black man killed for the war. He was a free slave living in Boston killed during the Boston Massacre
Abigail Adams ✔✔✔- second "First Lady" of the United States, she urged her husband to "remember the ladies" when helping
draft the Declaration of Independence and consider the needs and rights of women as well as of men in forming the new
country.
Treaty of Paris 1783 ✔✔✔- This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies,
and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the
Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River
Von Steuben ✔✔✔- Military officer from Germany who trained American soldiers during the American Revolution.
Land Ordinance ✔✔✔- A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to
settlers in West