Vocab+&+Defintions


 * Covenant** - A contract between man and God. Used in the Puritan belief and creates the idea that everyone in the community must work to please God and keep his wrath at bay


 * First Great Awakening** - Religious communities are falling apart due to corruption in the churches. People believed that God would smite them for this, so the Evangelic group formed of people who try to basically sell Christianity. This renewed vigor for religion caused a new belief in a personal relationship to God. This gave us New Light and Old Light Christians.
 * New Light
 * Terror of sin characterized their personal relationship with God
 * Old Light
 * Clung to the old ideas of a community relationship with God


 * Salutary Neglect (Helpful Neglect)** - England spent a vast amount of time ignoring the colonies because the King began losing power, and Parliament did not want him heavily involved in foreign affairs. This allowed the colonies to do their own thing and develop their own societies and governments.


 * Albany Plan** - 1754, the King of England told the colonies to fix their issues with Native Americans and the French. Ben Franklin suggests a colonial government where each colony has its own legislature, and they are all united under an overarching government. People did not agree with this because until the Civil War people identified more with their colony/state instead of their nation.


 * Iroquois Confederation** - Group of five Indian tribes that keep changing sides with the French and the British in North America. They try to keep a balance of power so that they do not lose their land but are eventually forced to choose sides during the French & Indian War

**French & Indian War** - France attacks the colonies and the British have to protect them. Indians side with both French and British.


 * Proclamation Line of 1763** - Parliament declares that the colonists cannot move past the Appalachian Mountains into the Indian territory. People only don't break this law simply because its hard to move past the Mountains.


 * Sugar Act (1764)** - Raises taxes on sugar in the colonies and lowers taxes on molasses in an attempt to eliminate illegal sugar trade. Supposed to entice the colonies to turn sugar into molasses to ship to England. It is a straight up tax.


 * Currency Act (1764)** - No paper money in colonies because England wants control of the money supply and economic growth. All accounting has to run through England.


 * Stamp Act (1765)** - Tax on printed documents (newspapers, books, playing cards, etc) in the colonies. Everyone had to buy a stamp to put on these paper materials. The stamps were cheap, but it was obviously just a way to get money for England.
 * **Internal Tax**
 * Taxes concerning commerce within the colonies only
 * Colonies accepted this
 * Sugar Act thought of as internal tax
 * **External Tax**
 * Stamp Act
 * Does not regulate commerce in the colonies
 * It is only a way to get Britain money
 * Unacceptable to the colonies


 * Virginia Resolves** - Passed by the House of Burgesses (though actually only 30 of the 150 members agreed to it). Statements that said only the House of Burgesses could tax the colonies, and Britain had no right to tax at all (far from all of the people in the colonies agreed with this).
 * **THIS IS THE THIRD GREATEST PIECE OF PROPAGANDA IN US HISTORY**
 * It was an attempt to make Virginia appear like it was on the verge of revolt against Britain in order to force the British government to agree to the colonies' demands