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APUSH Unit 2
spaush unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| spanish establish colonies because: | to gain wealth through cash crops and gold |
| Spanish | Attempt to convert natives to catholicism |
| french | interest in trading>conquest |
| First French settlement | Quebec |
| Intermarriage with French | French married natives to keep kinship ties |
| Intermarriage | mutual benefits |
| Dutch | EStablished fur trading center in Hudson River |
| Dutch Goals | Colonization and economic improvements |
| Hub of Trade by Dutch | New Amsterdam |
| Dutch | Protestant, little interest in converting natives |
| British Motives | Economic opportunities, religious freedom, land |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America (virginia) |
| joint-stock company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. |
| Starving Time | Colonists died of stravation, disease, and famine |
| Cannibalism | In Jamestown |
| Cash Crop | Tobacco |
| Indentured Servants | Couldn't afford passage from Britain, signed contract to work for x amount of years then get freedom |
| Land taken from natives | Tobacco demand increased so the demand for land tobacco grew on increased. |
| Increased tension | Natives were mad colonists took their land, led to raiding farms |
| Bacon's Rebellion | A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land |
| Chesapeake Region | Virginia and Maryland |
| New England Colonies | Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire |
| Settled by Pilgrims | New England |
| NE colonies motives | Spread their religion, live on their own land |
| Established thriving colonies after disease killed half the population | NE Colonies |
| West Indies | Those islands that the Spanish, French, and English colonized in the 15th and 16th century whose principal cash crop was sugar. |
| Increase in slavery in Indies | Produce more sugar |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
| New York and New Jersey | Diverse population |
| Cereal Crops | rice, wheat, corn, oats, sorghum, rye and millet (cash crops) |
| Pennsylvania | William Penn, religious freedom for all, land obtained by negotiation |
| Mayflower Compact | A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good |
| House of Burgesses | the first elected legislative assembly in the New World representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legislative acts. |
| Atlantic Slave Trade | the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas |
| Triangular Trade | Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa |
| Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought |
| Navigation Acts | Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries. |
| Atlantic Trade | changed colonies, turned American seaports into thriving urban centers |
| Slavery in British Colonies | 300 african slaves carried across middle passage and sold |
| British colonies and slavery | Each british colony participated in slavery |
| New England Slavery | Few Slaves |
| Chespaeake and Southern colonies with slavery | Had many slaves |
| Slave Codes | Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights. |
| covert resisters | secretly continued practicing cultural and religious beliefs from their homeland |
| Stono Rebellion | An uprising of slaves in South Carolina in 1739, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws. The largest slave uprising in the colonies. |
| King Phillip's War (Metacom's War) | New England natives defending themselves against an ever increasing white settlement. Metacom was eventually captured and killed. |
| Enlightement effects | Rational thinking> religious thinking |
| How were ideas spread | printing press |
| Idea of Natural Rights | Life, Liberty, Property |
| Balancing the Government | 3 branches, judicial, executive, legislative |
| overthrowing the government | if the people felt their rights weren't being protected, they could overthrow the government |
| New Lights/Old Lights | The "New Lights" were new religious movements formed during the Great Awakening and broke away from the congregational church in New England. The "Old Lights" were the established congregational church. |
| Great Awakening | Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. |
| Jonathan Edwards | Preacher during the First Great Awakening; "Sinners in the hands of angry god" |
| George Whitefield | English clergyman who was known for his ability to convince many people through his sermons. |
| Anglicization | the process of adopting English culture in the American colonies |
| Impressment | British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service |
| Chesapeake | Grew wealthy exporting tobacco |
| new England | settled by puritans, thrived off agriculture and commerce |
| southern Atlantic coast and the British West Indies | long growing seasons to develop plantation economies |
| middle colonies | Thrived off of cereal crops and attracted European migrants which allowed for diversity |
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