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Apush vocab quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encomienda system | Spanish labor system granting colonists authority of indigenous people in exchange for protection and conversion |
| Bartlomé de las Casas | A reformer who criticized Spanish brutality and attempted to curb the encomienda system |
| Pueblo revolt of 1680 | 1680 rebellion against Spanish religious oppression and cultural suppression |
| Samuel de Champlain | A French explorer who founded Quebec in 1608 and allied with the Huron people |
| Primogeniture Laws | British inheritance laws stating only eldest sons could inherit land, pushing younger sons to America |
| Mayflower Compact | 1620 document signed by Pilgrims establishing early democratic governance in Plymouth Colony |
| John Winthrop | A Massachusetts Bay Colony leader who envisioned it as "a city upon a hill" |
| Roger Williams | A Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts for promoting religious tolerance |
| William Penn | A Quaker founder of Pennsylvania who created a refuge for religious minorities |
| Triangular Trade | Pattern of transatlantic trade connecting New England, West Africa, and the West Indies |
| Mercantilism | An economic system emphasizing maintaining a favorable balance of trade by exporting more than importing |
| Navigation Acts | British economic policy requiring all colonial imports to pass through English ports for taxation |
| Salutary Neglect | British policy of loose enforcement of colonial regulations due to distance and competing priorities |
| Dominion of New England | A 1688 combination of northern colonies into one "super colony" under King James II's control |
| Bacon's Rebellion | A 1676 rebellion led by poor farmers in Virginia against Governor William Berkeley and American Indian settlements |
| Metacom (King Philip) | A Wampanoag leader who united multiple indigenous groups against English expansion in 1675-1678 |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia's representative government assembly, providing early experience with democratic participation |
| John Punch Case | A 1640 Virginia case marking the beginning of racial distinctions in slavery between black and white servants |
| Chattel Slavery | A system where enslaved people became complete and permanent property, with slavery passed to their children |
| Stono Rebellion | A 1739 rebellion in South Carolina where approximately 100 enslaved people killed colonists and burned properties |
| The Great Awakening | A religious revival movement in the 1730s-1740s emphasizing emotional, personal religious experience: |
| Indentured Servitude | Contract-based labor system where workers served 7 years of unpaid labor to pay off migration debt |
| The Enlightenment | An intellectual movement of the 1680s-1770s emphasizing reason, scientific thinking, and natural rights |
| John Locke | A philosopher who developed natural rights theory and social contract theory |
| Impressment | The forced recruitment of colonial men into the British Navy |
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