| A | B |
|---|
| 1650 | parliament passes Navigation Acts |
| Navigation Acts | require that all imports destined for colonies pass through Britain |
| 1686 | King James II organizes northern colonies into the Dominion of New England; appoints Edmund Andros governor |
| 1688-1689 | Glorious revolution in Britain; Bill of rights established |
| Bill of Rights | passed by Parliament in 1689; established Parliament, the legislative body, as the supreme authority in the English government |
| 1689 | The period of salutary neglect begins in the colonies |
| 1690 | slaves presentin every one of the english colonies |
| 1730-1750 | Great Awakening in colonies; widespread rise of Protestant religious fervor |
| abolitionist | one who believes that slavery is wrong and should be illegal |
| apprentice | boy or girl (usually boy) who exchanges full-time live-in labor for room, board, and begin taught the trade of the master |
| censorship | government or military suppression of written or artistic works |
| Enlightenment | an intellectual and cultural movement of the eighteenth century that originated in France; emphasized the value of reason and the quality and freedom of the individual |
| Glorious Revolution | bloodless revolution in which the Protestants William and Mary replaced the Catholic James II as monarchs of Great Britain |
| Great Awakening | a series of Protestant religious revivals that took place from about the 1730's to the 1750's |
| indentured servitude | an arrangement by which, in exchange for passage to the New World,a person agreed to a term of servitude in the colonies; indentured servants often were treated brutally, but ultimately they received complete freedom |
| mercantilism | an economic theory that states that a nation should export more than it imports; colonies were to be a source of raw materials and subservient to the needs of another country |
| Middle Passage | the trip across the Atlantic from Africa to the Carribean or the colonies |
| Navigation Acts | acts of Parliament passed beginning in 1650 that regulated colonial trad |
| slave codes | sets of laws that curtailed the activities of African slaves |
| 1696 | first africans were brought to jamestown as bound servants |
