apush unit 2 terms

cash crop

crops grown for profit (tobacco, rice) → drives slavery

indentured servitude

labor system before slavery dominates

headright system

land given to attract settlers (leads to inequality)

house of burgesses

first representative gov in colonies

mayflower compact

early self-government + social contract

mercantilism

colonies exist to benefit the mother country

navigation acts

laws controlling colonial trade

slave code

laws controlling enslaved people

first great awakening

religious revival → challenges authority

enlightenment

reason, natural rights → influences revolution later

bacon’s rebellion

 conflict over class + Native policy (huge turning point toward slavery)

glorious revolution

limits monarchy, affects colonies

dominion of New England

British attempt to control colonies

pequot war

early violent Native conflict

metacom’s war

major native resistance in new england

pueblo revolt

successful native rebellion vs spain

walking purchase

example of colonists cheating natives