Chapter 4: Colonial Society

Stono Rebellion

The ________ comprised a group of 80 enslaved people who set out for Spanish Florida under a banner that said "Liberty !.

Sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean

Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada, St. Vincent, and Dominica

Glorious Revolution

In the time between the ________ (1688) and the American Revolution (1775), Britain was at war with France.

Lord proprietor

_____________________ was an individual who had purchased or received the rights to a colony from the Crown

Sugar Act of 1764

Taxed the import of sugar into the Americas

The Stamp Act of 1765

A tax that required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London

The Townshend Acts

A series of British acts of Parliament that introduced taxes and regulations to fund the administration of the British colonies in the Americas

Three political structures in the British colonies

Provincial colonies, proprietary colonies, and charter colonies

Provincial colonies

The most tightly controlled, with all governors appointed directly by the king

Proprietary colonies

Similar structure to provincial ones, but governors were appointed by a lord proprietor

Lord proprietor

An individual who had purchased or received the rights to a colony from the Crown

Charter colonies

The most complex, they were formed by political corporations or interest groups and elected their own governors among the men in the colony

Seven Years' War

A war of England and Prussia against France and Austria; Britain and Prussia got the better of it

Effects of transatlantic trade

Enriched Britain but it also created high standards of living for North-American colonists

Response to Britain's taxes

Colonists organized nonimportation agreements and reverted to domestic products

Nonimportation agreements

Commercial restrictions that cut off profits for certain items