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The area of French and Indian cooperation west of Niagara 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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| A coup in 1688 engineered by a small group of aristocrats that led to William of Orange taking the British throne in place of James II |
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| American journalist, printer, and publisher, born in Germany: his libel trial and eventual acquittal (1735) set a precedent for establishing freedom of the press in America. |
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| Site in 1607 of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. |
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| Revolution in thought in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science over the authority of traditional religion. |
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| Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters. |
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| Began in 1675 with an Indian uprising against white colonies. A multi-year conflict, the end result was broadened freedoms for white New Englanders and the dispossesion of the reigon's Indians. |
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| Unsuccessful 1676 revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia governor William Berkley's administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands. |
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| Policy of Great Britain and other imperial powers of regulating the economies of colonies to benefit the mother country. |
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| Settler who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage to the New World; Virginia and Pennsylvania were largely peopled in the 17th and 18th centuries by English and German indentured servants. |
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| Neolin (the Delaware Prophet) was a prophet of the Lenni Lenape, who was derided by the British as "The Imposter."Beginning in 1762, Neolin believed that the native people needed to reject European goods and abandon dependency on foreign settlers in order to return to a more traditional lifestyle. He made arguments against alcohol, materialism, and polygamy. Neolin emphasized that the favor of God in blessing the Indians with game to hunt would be spoiled if they did not forsake their evil collusion with the alien white men. Neolin's most famous follower was Pontiac. |
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| The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights. |
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| The voyage across the Atlantic for slaves. Known as the middle passage because it was the second, or middle, leg in the triangular trade routes linking Europe, Africa, and America. |
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| Religious revival movement of the early decades of the 19th century, in reaction to the growth of secularism and rationalist religion; began the predominance of the Baptist and Methodist churches. |
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| The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus's voyages in 1492. |
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| Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, March 5th, 1770, in which 5 colonists were killed. |
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| Proclamation line of 1763 |
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| Royal directive issued after the French and Indian War prohibiting settlement, surveys, and land grants west of the Appalachian Mountains; caused considerable resentment among the colonists hoping to move west. |
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| English religious group that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony under John Winthrop in 1630. |
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| Parliament required that revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter, documents, and playing cards; The Stamp Act Congress met to formulate a response, and the act was repealed the following year. |
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| A slave uprising in 1739 in South Carolina that led to a severe tightening of the slave code and the temporary imposition of a prohibitive tax on imported slaves. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| First frame of government for the United States; in effect from 1781 to 1788, it provided for a weak central authority and was soon replaced by the Constitution. |
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| An English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights |
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