Definitions from American History

1. Middle Passage

A triangular trade was established between the Americas and Europe in which slaves were also traded along with other material. African American salves’ trade across the Atlantic slave trade route was a stage of the triangular trade, namely Middle Passage.

2. Industrious revolution

Industrious revolution tends to the era that follows the actual industrial revolution, which is in the era of 1600s-1800s. This industrious revolution era saw an increase in trade and businesses on a daily basis. Moreover, this also saw an increase in manufacturing of goods and other material that eventually led to the actual industrial revolution.

3. Consumer Revolution

Consumer revolution refers to the time period between 1600s and the 1750s, where the consumption of goods and other material had more than doubled between the 150 mentioned years within the country of England.

4. Artisans

Artisans are people who have the profession of creating decorative and artistic figures by hand. The examples of the types of goods and material produced by the Artisans is furniture and wall decorations.

 

 

 

 

5. Land Pressure

From 1700s to the 1880s, Native American tribes were kept away from their own lands by White Caucasians that had arrived into the new world. The Native Indians were kept away by the influence and power of the Caucasians, who had advanced weaponry and different cultures of themselves. This thwarting of Native Americans from their own lands through the use of pressure and influence as well as power is known as Land Pressure.

6. William Byrd II

William Byrd II is considered to be the founder of Richmond, Virginia. He was also a famous planter, and slave owner along with the title of Colonel. William Byrd II is seen as the person with both the qualities of English gentlemen as well as the profound and increasingly apparent American identity.

7. Stono Rebellion

In the colony of South Carolina, on 9^th September 1739, a slave rebellion broke out, led by Jimmy, or also referred to as Cato quite often. This slave rebellion was the largest in many mainland British colonies. This rebellion saw 44 Blacks killed as well as 21 Whites killed in the process of the rebellion.

8. James Oglethorpe

James Oglethorpe was an English commander and founder of Georgia as well as a philanthropist and general in his title. James waned to settle poor people of England, especially the ones that had been trapped in debtors’ prison for not being able to pay the expected amount of taxes, etc. into the New world so they could begin a new life.

 

9. Enlightenment

Many 17^th Century philosophers, such as Descartes, focused and encouraged more improvement on individualism and reason rather than in tradition, which was the prime cause of racism between the Europeans, Caucasians, and the African Americans of the time. The movement was intellectual and continued throughout the 1600s-1700s.

10. Great Awakening

This was the first revitalization and evangelical movement in the 1700s that swept across British America and the Protestant Europe. This left a complete sense of Protestant Americanism in its aftermath.

11. Proclamation of 1763

It was a royal proclamation by King George III followed by British acquisition of French territories in the New World, after the end of the Seven Years’ War. The proclamation also prohibited settlers from crossing a line in the Appalachian Mountains while deciding to settle in the New World.

12. Robert Jenkins

Robert Jenkins was a British Master Mariner. He was famous for his ear being cut off by a Spanish captain, which was the same story that was the main cause of the Jenkins’ ear war by Britain on the Spanish Armada.

13. Albany Plan of Union

In July 1754, Benjamin Franklin, who was then only a junior leader at the age of 48, proposed to the Albany Congress that the 13 colonies should make up a unified government which would overlook all the colonies and control all the policies as well as aid for the colonies.

14. Pontiac’s Rebellion

Pontiac’s rebellion refers to the Pontiac War that was initiated in 1763 by Native Indian Tribes that had begun to become dissatisfied and discomforted due to the British Policies in the postwar policies within the great Lakes Region. The rebellion included Native American Tribes from the Great Lakes Region.

15. Virtual Representation

Virtual Representation was a rule in the House of Lords and House of Commons during the 1700s, where it was believed that whatever decision was made within the House of Commons or the House of Lords, it would be based upon the representation of the general public, even if the general public was not consulted.

16. Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was an American planter as well as a politician. He became known as the orator of the movement of independence within Virginia in the 1770s. He is one of the Founding Fathers of America and served twice as the colonial governor of Virginia after the independence of America.

17. Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Hutchinson was a historian as well as a businessman. More importantly, he was a loyalist within the Colony near the Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution

18. Sons of Liberty

The sons of liberty was an American organization that was secretly founded by landowners within the thirteen colonies. Their aim was to protect their own rights of the colonists as well as their own trade, while simultaneously evading and fighting taxations implemented upon the colonies by the British government.

19. Stamp Act

Stamp Act is the direct taxation act on the colonies in British America from the Parliament of Britain.

20. Declaratory Act

The declaratory act refers to the American Colonies Act of 1766, where the parliament of the British government repeals the Stamp Act, and lessens the degree of the Sugar act just as well so as to give relief to the British American Colonies.