APUSH

Chapters 4 & 5 Vocab

Navigation Acts

• Any of the several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit British trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.

Gentility

• A redefined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600.

Charles II

• “The Merry Monarch”- King of Great Britain and Ireland – 1660 1685- reign was known as the Restoration Era

Salutary Neglect

• A term often used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I and George II. By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs, royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.