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| __________ was the governor of the Dominion of New England. When appointed by James II in 1686, he set about abolishing the Massachusetts assembly and enforcing religious toleration. He was deposed in the wake of the England's Glorious Revolution in 1688. |
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| Nathaniel Bacon led an armed rebellion against the royal governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, in 1676. Berkeley's political favoritism, economic exploitation, and Indian policy inspired the rebellion. |
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| Berkeley was the governor of Virginia for over thirty years. He and his policies were the targets of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. |
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| The Board of Trade was created in 1696 to advise Parliament concerning colonial policy. It reviewed laws of colonial assemblies and nominated colonial governors. |
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| _________ was a governing scheme installed by King James II in the 1680s, designed to impose greater imperial supervision over the New England colonies and New York. It was governed by Edmund Andros, who made himself obnoxious to the Massachusetts Bay Puritans. |
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| The Navigation Act of 1660 specified certain "enumerated" goods, including sugar, cotton, and tobacco, that the colonists could ship only to English ports. |
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| favorable balance of trade |
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| To achieve a "favorable balance of trade," a nation sought to maximize exports of its own goods and limit imports of foreign goods, so as to remain a creditor in international trade. England's mercantile system introduced in the Navigation Acts was designed to guarantee England a favorable balance of trade. |
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| In 1688, James II was exiled in order to secure English Protestantism and Parliament's power. In the colonies, the Glorious Revolution resulted in the collapse of the Dominion of New England and in several colonial rebellions against James II's appointed governors. |
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| When it was formally adopted in 1662, the Half-Way Covenant provided limited membership in the Puritan church. "Half-Way" members and their children could be baptized, but were not originally allowed to take communion or have a voice in church affairs. |
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| Indentured servitude was a form of apprenticeship or bonded (contract) labor initiated in England's American colonies by Virginia planters. It provided a way for Europeans who could not afford to pay their own passage to get to America. In return for payment of their transportation expenses, these immigrants agreed to work for several years. Indentured servants were often abused and exploited by their masters. |
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| Wampanoag chieftain Metacomet (called King Philip by the English) in 1675-1676 led a violent war against English Puritan settlers in the Connecticut Valley. The effort exhausted the Indians' resources and signaled the dominance of the white settlers. |
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| Jacob Leisler seized control of New York's government in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution in 1688. He was arrested and executed in 1670. |
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| Mercantilism was a loose system of economic organization designed, through a favorable balance of trade, to guarantee the economic self-sufficiency of the British empire and the growth of England's wealth and power. |
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| The Navigation Acts were passed by Parliament to implement mercantilist assumptions about trade. They were intended to regulate the flow of goods in imperial commerce in such a way as to favor England's accumulation of wealth. |
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| Witchcraft hysteria in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay, in 1692 resulted in the trial, conviction, and execution of twenty accused witches. |
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| Slavery, lifetime inheritable servitude, was adopted in England's mainland colonies after 1650. The English colonists enslaved only black Africans. |
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| The 1739 Stono Uprising in South Carolina was the most dramatic slave revolt in England's mainland colonies during the colonial period. The rebellious slaves tried to make their way to freedom in Spanish Florida. |
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