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APUSH Period 2 Vocab
Summariszed definintions of vocab in APUSH unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonial region centered on Vriginia nad maryland around chespeake bay | Chepseake colonies |
| atlantic trading pattern between europe, americas, and africa | Trainglular trade |
| second lord of baltimore, proprietor of maryland and coninuted father’s dream | Cecil Cavert, Lord Baltimore |
| maryland law protecting all worship with some dissent | Act of Tolerance |
| Puritan banished from massachusetts, founded providence | Roger Williams |
| settlement founded by Roger Willaims, became part rodhe island | Providence |
| puritan banished from massachusetts for challenging religous ideas | Anne Hutchinson |
| New England colony created from settlement differences by roger williams | Rhode Island |
| Members of the Religious Society of Friends who emphasized an inner spiritual light, spiritual equality of men and women, pacifism, and liberty of conscience | Quakers |
| Quaker proprietor who founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other persecuted groups and as a profitable colony. | William Penn |
| William Penn's effort to build Pennsylvania around Quaker principles such as religious toleration, representative government, and peaceful relations | Holy Experiment |
| AMSCO's label for Pennsylvania's 1701 Charter of Privileges, which protected liberty of conscience for people who acknowledged one God and confirmed important powers of the elected assembly | Charter of Liberties (1701) |
| Large southern farms, especially in South Carolina and Georgia, that produced rice for export using large amounts of enslaved labor | rice-growing plantations |
| Farms and plantations in the Chesapeake and parts of North Carolina that grew tobacco as a major export crop. | tobacco farms |
| First permanent English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607. | Jamestown |
| Jamestown leader who imposed discipline during the colony's difficult early years and wrote accounts of Virginia and its Native peoples | Captain John Smith |
| Virginia colonist who helped develop tobacco as a profitable export crop and married Pocahontas | John Rolfe |
| Powhatan woman who interacted with Jamestown colonists and later married John Rolfe | Pocahontas |
| English Chesapeake colony founded at Jamestown in 1607 and later converted from company control to a royal colony | Virginia |
| New England colony founded in 1620 by Pilgrims who arrived aboard the Mayflower | Plymouth Colony |
| English Protestants who wanted to leave the Church of England entirely rather than reform it from within | Separatists |
| Separatist Protestants who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 after seeking greater religious independence | Pilgrims |
| Ship that carried the Pilgrims and other settlers to New England in 1620 | Mayflower |
| Large Puritan colony founded in 1630 around Boston under the Massachusetts Bay Company | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| English Protestants who wanted to reform or 'purify' the Church of England rather than separate from it completely | Puritans |
| Puritan leader and longtime governor of Massachusetts Bay who described the colony as a covenant community and 'city upon a hill | John Winthrop |
| Large migration of Puritan families and other English settlers to New England, especially Massachusetts Bay, during the 1630s amid religious and political conflict in England | Great Migration |
| New England colony centered initially on Hartford and other settlements in the Connecticut River Valley; the separate New Haven Colony on Long Island Sound was later absorbed into Connecticut | Connecticut |
| New England colony separated from Massachusetts Bay and made a royal colony in 1679 | New Hampshire |
| Colonial region south of Virginia that eventually divided into North Carolina and South Carolina | the Carolinas |
| Middle colony taken by England from the Dutch in 1664 and renamed for the Duke of York | New York |
| Middle colony founded by William Penn as a Quaker refuge and proprietary colony | Pennsylvania |
| Thirteenth British mainland colony, chartered in 1732 and settled in 1733 as a defensive buffer against Spanish Florida and as a social-reform experiment intended to offer opportunity to the 'worthy poor | Georgia |
| Georgia Trustee and principal founder who led the colony's early settlement and defense. He acted as the colony's de facto, or unofficial, leader but held no formal governor title | James Oglethorpe |
| Written framework for government created by Connecticut River towns that established representative political institutions | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| William Penn's plan for Pennsylvania government that provided for a representative assembly elected by landowners | Frame of Government |
| Representative assembly first organized in Virginia in 1619, dominated by property- owning planters | Virginia House of Burgesses |
| Agreement signed by Mayflower passengers in 1620 to form a civil political body and make decisions through majority rule | Mayflower Compact |
| Colonies initially operated by joint-stock companies under charters from the English crown | corporate colonies |
| Colonies governed under the direct authority of the English crown through appointed officials | royal colonies |
| Colonies granted by the crown to individuals or groups who held ownership and governing authority | proprietary colonies |
| English joint-stock company chartered by King James I that founded Jamestown | Virginia Company |
| Colonial region centered on Virginia and Maryland around Chesapeake Bay | Chesapeake colonies |
| Series of English laws regulating colonial shipping and trade to direct commerce through the British Empire | Navigation Acts |
| Administrative union created by King James II in 1686 that combined several northern colonies under tighter royal control | Dominion of New England |
| Native people of southern New England whose communities interacted with Plymouth settlers and later resisted English expansion under Metacom | Wampanoag |
| Wampanoag leader, called King Philip by English colonists, who helped organize Native resistance in southern New England in 1675–1676. | Metacom |
| 1675–1676 conflict in New England between English colonists and a Native alliance led by Metacom, with some Native groups allied to the colonists | King Philip's War |
| Royal governor of Virginia whose policies favored large planters and who resisted Nathaniel Bacon's demands for aggressive frontier war | Sir William Berkeley |
| 1676 Virginia uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor Berkeley that also included violent attacks on Native communities | Bacon's Rebellion |
| Military alliance formed in 1643 by several New England colonies for mutual defense and cooperation | New England Confederation |
| Workers who agreed to labor for a master for a set period, usually several years, in exchange for passage to the colonies and basic support | indentured servants |
| Virginia policy granting 50 acres of land to immigrants who paid their own passage or to sponsors who paid another person's passage | headright system |
| Forced transatlantic voyage that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas under brutal and deadly conditions | Middle Passage |
| Printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and colonial public figure whose work reflected the practical and intellectual culture of the 18th-century colonies | Benjamin Franklin |
| Popular annual publication by Benjamin Franklin containing calendars, practical information, aphorisms, and advice | Poor Richard's Almanack |
| West African-born enslaved poet who was brought to Boston in 1761, became widely known for her poetry, and published a collection in 1773. | Phillis Wheatley |
| Religious profession of ministers and clergy, one of the most respected educated occupations in colonial communities | ministry |
| Church officially supported by a colonial government, often through taxes or legal preference | established church |
| Series of Protestant religious revivals in the 1730s and 1740s emphasizing emotional conversion and personal religious experience | Great Awakening |
| New England Congregational minister and major theologian of the Great Awakening, known for sermons emphasizing sin and the need for conversion | Jonathan Edwards |
| Traveling British evangelical preacher whose dramatic sermons drew large crowds throughout the colonies during the Great Awakening | George Whitefield |
| Farming focused mainly on household and local consumption rather than producing a large export surplusx | subsistence farming |
| New York printer tried for seditious libel in 1735 after publishing criticism of the royal governor; the jury acquitted him | John Peter Zenger |
| European intellectual movement emphasizing reason, natural laws, scientific inquiry, and the possibility of improving society through human understanding | Enlightenment |
| Local gatherings, especially common in New England, where eligible residents debated and voted directly on community matters | town meetings |
| Interconnected system of trade linking Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean through the movement of commodities, labor, and people | Atlantic economy |
| Later label for Britain's practice of loosely or inconsistently enforcing many imperial trade regulations in the colonies before 1763 | salutary neglect |
| 1680 uprising by Pueblo peoples in the Southwest that drove Spanish settlers from New Mexico for more than a decade | Pueblo Revolt |
| Forced transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans that connected African, European, Caribbean, and mainland American economies | Atlantic slave trade |
| Form of slavery in which enslaved people were legally treated as property and enslaved status was permanent and inheritable | chattel slavery |
| Overt and covert ways enslaved Africans resisted slavery while maintaining family ties, religious practices, cultural traditions, and community life | enslaved resistance and cultural |
| Coexistence of multiple ethnic, religious, and cultural groups within the same society | pluralism |
| Gradual process by which British colonists adopted or strengthened English cultural, political, consumer, and institutional patterns | Anglicization |
| Network through which newspapers, books, pamphlets, sermons, and ideas circulated across the Atlantic and among the colonies | transatlantic print culture |
| Protestant evangelicalism | Religious emphasis on personal conversion, emotional preaching, and active spread of Protestant faith, especially visible during the Great Awakening |
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