M3,L4, Life in the English Colonies

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa

(vocabulary word)

• salutary neglect

• English bill of Rights

• triangular trade

• Great Awakening

Act passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch and gave Parliament more power

(vocab word)

• English Bill of Rights

• Great Awakening

• triangular trade

• Englightenment

A religious movement in the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s

(vocab word)

• English Bill of Rights

• Great Awakening

• triangular trade

• Enlightenment

A movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society

(vocab word)

• English Bill of Rights

• triangular trade

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

An important leader of the Great Awakening; from Massachusetts

(vocab word)

• Jonathan Edwards

• John Locke

• Pontiac

• George Washington

An assembly in which colonists decided issues and made laws

(vocab word)

• town meeting

• Great Awakening

• Englightenment

• triangular trade

A philosopher who thought that people had natural rights

(vocab word)

• Jonathan Edwards

• John Locke

• Pontiace

• George Washington

Native American leader who led a rebellion in the Ohio Valley in 1763

(vocab word)

• Jonathan Edwards

• John Locke

• Pontiac

• Chief Big Horn

A policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs

(vocab word)

• town meeting

• triangular trade

• salutary neglect

• Englightenment

How were government decisions made in most NEW ENGLAND colonies?

(pg 91, 2nd paragraph)

• Decisions were made in the Council of State.

• Most decisions were made at the county level.

• Town meetings decided issues of local interest.

• The governor and advisory council decided most issues.