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What were the causes and effects of the Great Awakening?
Causes: Desire for religious revival. Effects: Increased religious diversity, challenged religious authority.
What were the causes and effects of Mercantilism?
Causes: England's desire for economic control. Effects: Colonial resentment, smuggling, and economic dependence.
What were the causes and effects of Salutary Neglect?
Causes: Britain's focus on domestic issues. Effects: Colonial self-governance, desire for independence.
What were the causes and effects of King Philip's War?
Causes: Westward expansion and land disputes. Effects: Conflict between colonists and Native Americans.
What were the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion?
Causes: Colonial government policies regarding land and Native Americans. Effects: Uprising against the colonial government.
What were the causes and effects of the Dominion of New England?
Causes: To strengthen defense and enforce Navigation Laws. Effects: Increased resentment among colonists due to restrictions on their freedoms.
What were the causes and effects of the Enlightenment?
Causes: European intellectual movement. Effects: Emphasis on science, reason, and equality, influencing colonial thought.
What were the causes and effects of the Navigation Acts?
Causes: England's desire to control colonial trade. Effects: Colonists resented trade restrictions and smuggled goods.
What were the causes and effects of colonial diversity?
Causes: Immigration from various European countries and Africa. Effects: Blending and conflicting of cultural beliefs, dynamic society.
What were the causes and effects of westward expansion?
Causes: Desire for land and resources. Effects: Conflicts with Native Americans, such as King Philip's War.
What is Mercantilism?
Economic system where colonies supply raw materials to the mother country and purchase finished goods exclusively from them.
What is Salutary Neglect?
British policy of relaxed enforcement of laws in the colonies, fostering colonial self-governance.
Define the Great Awakening.
A religious revival in the 1700s that emphasized emotional preaching and challenged traditional religious authority.
What are the Navigation Acts?
A series of laws restricting colonial trade to England, requiring ships to pass through English ports.
What is the Enlightenment?
An intellectual movement emphasizing science, reason, and the equality of all people, influencing colonial thought.
What is the Dominion of New England?
A consolidation of several New England colonies under a single appointed governor to enforce Navigation Acts.
What is the Scots-Irish?
Protestant descendants of Scots who had previously migrated to Ireland, and then immigrated in large numbers to the American colonies in the 1700s.
Define Established Churches.
Churches that are supported by tax money. In the colonies, the Congregational Church in New England and the Church of England in the South were established churches.
What is the New England Confederation?
A military alliance formed in 1643 by Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies to defend against Native Americans, the French, and the Dutch.
What is English Common Law?
A system of law based on precedent and custom. Colonists believed they were entitled to the rights of Englishmen under common law.
Compare the religious landscape before and after the Great Awakening.
Before: Established churches, less diversity. After: Increased religious diversity, new denominations emerged.
Compare the political structures of the colonies to the British system.
Colonies modeled their governments after the British system, with a governor, upper house, and lower house.
Compare the economies of the Northern and Southern colonies.
Northern: More diverse, including trade and manufacturing. Southern: Primarily agricultural, reliant on cash crops and slave labor.
Compare the effects of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on colonial thought.
Enlightenment: Emphasized reason and equality. Great Awakening: Emphasized religious emotion and challenged authority. Both contributed to questioning established norms.
Compare colonial reactions to the Navigation Acts and Salutary Neglect.
Navigation Acts: Resentment and smuggling. Salutary Neglect: Fostered self-governance and a desire for independence.
Compare the role of the church in New England and the South.
New England: Tax-supported Congregational Church (Puritan). South: Tax-supported Church of England (Anglican).
Compare the demographic trends in the colonies between 1700 and 1775.
1700: Primarily English/Welsh. 1775: More diverse with significant populations of Africans, Scots-Irish, and Germans.
Compare the causes of Bacon's Rebellion and King Philip's War.
Bacon's Rebellion: Colonial government policies. King Philip's War: Westward expansion and land disputes.
Compare the goals of the New England Confederation and the Dominion of New England.
New England Confederation: Defense against Native Americans and other European powers. Dominion of New England: Enforce Navigation Acts and strengthen British control.
Compare the impact of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on challenging authority.
Enlightenment: Challenged political authority with ideas of democracy and republicanism. Great Awakening: Challenged religious authority, leading to questioning of political authority.