English Colonies Vocabulary

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

• Pacific Slave Trade
• Middle Passage

• Indian Ocean Slave Trade
• Arctic Slave Trade

A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England.

• City gathering
• Town meeting
• Village assembly
• County convention

Elected representatives; assisted in making laws and setting policies; had to get approval from the advisory council and governor.

• Appointed representatives
• Assemblies

• Self-appointed representatives
• Elected representatives

A shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament.

• American Revolution
• English Bill of Rights

• Bill of Rights

• French Revolution

Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American Colonies, and Africa.

• Triangular Trade
• Circular Trade
• Square Trade
• Linear Trade

The Age of Reason, movement that began in Europe in the 1700's as people began examining the natural world, society, and government.

• What was the Age of Reason?
• Who was the founder of the Age of Reason?
• What was the Age of Enlightenment?
• When did the Age of Reason end?

Creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade and the balance of imports to exports

• Mercantilism
• Merchants

• Socialism
• Capitalism

American Revolutionary who led the Boston Tea Party and he signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Thomas Jefferson
• Samuel Adams
• George Washington
• John Adams

A law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items.

• Paper Act
• Tax Act
• Stamp Act
• Colonial Act

An incident in which British Soldiers fires into a crowd of colonists.

• Philadelphia Riot
• New York Uprising
• Charleston Rebellion
• Boston Massacre