APUSH Unit 2 (1607 - 1754)

Impressment

- seizing men against their will to serve in the royal navy.

Bacons Rebellion

- Leads poor farmers and indentured servants against Native Americans and the farms of Willaim Berkeley, who was leading Jamestown.

Human beings

have right to life, liberty, property given to them by a creator.

Enlightenment

awakens Americans to ideas about democratic movements, Great Awakening convinces Americans to not compromise that democracy- results in resistance against the British when they are not meeting the needs of the colonists.

Initial coexistence

- borrowed whatever they found useful, Natives taught farming and hunting, British gave manufactured goods and iron tools.

Pennsylvania

- Founded by William Penn, a Quaker (pacifist)

Joint Stock Company

- Pool of investors fund the exploration, share financial risks but dont lose everything if failure.

Tobacco

- learn how to plant it, saves Jamestown economically due to popularity in Britain.

South & Chesapeake

: Had many African slaves due to the plantation system.

Social Contract

- Citizens give some rights to the Government on the condition that it protects the peoples natural rights.

Consumer Revolution

- Families buy more goods, changes how society shaped because your family name matters less than your financial success Interactions Between Native Americans and Europeans.

Samuel De Champlain

colonizes Quebec in 1608- First permanent French settlement.

Mercantilism

- Dominant economic system in Europe.

George Whitefield

- Travels throughout the colonies in random places, people flocked to hear him wherever he was- incredibly powerful speaker.

Great Awakening

- Massive religious revival throughout the colonies.

Bacons Rebellion results

in African slavery becoming the main source of labor in place of indentured servants.

Puritans

- Protestants unhappy with Church of England, living by their own conscience.

Sugarcane

requires a lot of physical work- resulted in a lot of African slaves.

West Indies

: Has the most African slaves.

New Light Clergy

- Group of preachers that lamented the effects of the Enlightenment, inspired by German pietism, which emphasizes the heart over the head in reference to spiritualism.

Enclosure Movement

- Peasant land being sold to private parties.

Atlantic Slave Trade

- Transferred around 3 million Africans to the Caribbean and the Americas for slave labor.

New England

: Holds much less slave laborers because of smaller farms.

Establishment of colonies

- Gives sovereign countries more raw materials that arent in their countries, become markets for manufactured goods.

Overt Resistance

- Open and clear rebellion.

Covert Resistance

- secretly practiced cultural customs from their homeland, maintained belief systems, spoke their native languages, kept naming practices, and slowed the pace of work by breaking tools and damaging crops.

Stono Rebellion

- small group of enslaved men steal weapons, kill owners of store, walk up the Stono River, get more enslaved men to join them, burn plantations and kill more white people Colonial Society and Structure.

Enlightenment

- emphasizes rational thinking over religion.