APUSH Unit 2 Vocab

Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Only Colony that allows catholics

Act of Toleration

stamp, to allow other people of other religous beliefs to live there

Roger Williams

Created Rhode Island Colony

Providence

The capital of Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson

female religous reformer that got kicked out of a colony

Antinomainism

against following the idea of following the ten comandmants

Rhode Island

Capitial of this colony is Providence

Halfway Coventant

partial membership for those who were baptized

Quakers

against slavery

William Penn

Created a colong that is named his forest

Holy Experiment

Pennslyvania colonies level of reliogous toleration

Charter of Liberties (1701)

The constitiution of Pennsylvania

rice plantations

a crop that was grown in asia, now grown by slaves in america

tobacco farms

you can’t eat it but its a cash crop you can smoke

John Cabot

Claimed Newfoundland

Jamestown

first sucessful english colonies

captain John Smith

taught the lazy jamestown settlers how to create a life for themselves

John rolfe

Married Pochahontas

Pocahontas

native american female tride leaders daughter

Puritains

the type of religon that the people on mayflower followed

Separtists

to divide religons

Pilgrims

the people who left england for america

Mayflower

the ship that took the first purtians took to america

Plymouth Colony

a settlement named after the first rock landed in boston

John Winthrop

goverenr of massachusetts

Great Migration

when people started moving from europe to america

Thomas Hooker

founded the Conneticut colony

John Davenport

Co-founder of New Haven colony

Connecticut

Created their own form of a constitution

new Hampshire

The colony above massachusetts

The Carolinas

There are two of these colonies north and south

New York

Elis Island was in this state

New Jersey

originally a dutch colony, was given to the duke of york

Pennslyvannia

william’s forrest

deleware

Joe Biden was born in this state

Georgia

This colonies purpose was to defend against the french threat of the missisippi river, is also a county in europe

James Oglethorpe

founded georgia

wampanoags

natives that lived in the massachusetts and rhode island area for over 12,000 years

Metacom

King Phillips native name

King Phillips War

Metacoms battle is also known as

Mayflower Compact

an agreement between the puritians that landed on plymouth rokcand hte kind of england

Vigrinia House of Burgesses

George Washingtons colonies form of representation, also the begining formation of a congress in the colonies

Sir William Berkley

the longest serving govener of Virginia

Bacon’s Rebellion

Indentured servants fought back agianst the people they served.

fundemental orders of conneticut (1639)

The formation of a onstitution in one of the first colonies

New England Confederation

An allance with the four puritain colonies

frame of government (1682)

The first constitition of pennslavania colony, written by william penn himself

corparate colonies

Established by the charters funded by the crown

royal colonies

settlements with the purpose to defend the crown, but all of the colonies were known as this

proprietary colonies

British settlements, that were under total control of the crown

Cheasapeake colonies

These settlements included, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and parts of Pennslyvania

joint stock company

The colony of viginia was funded by this

Virginia Company

it was a joint stock company that founded the settlement of jamestown

Mercantilism

The money that was made needs to go back to the crown, also the belief that the only cureny was made up of silver and gold, and all of it needed to be kept inside one kingdom to keep all of its power

Navigation Acts

Stamp, Tea, Quartering, this made sure that those living on the colonies could only sell to the british, but many of the colonist figured out how to work around these sailing laws

Dominion of New England

king james created this to give him control over all of the colonies

Sir Edmond Andros

govener of the dominion of england

Glorious Rebellion

king maes the 2nd was overthrough for his religous laws, the parliemnt fought back killed hime and put his daughter incharge

Indentured Servants

These poeple sold their lives for 7 years to get “free” trips to the new world

headright system

A land grant program that gave money to people for the purpose of colonizing the americas

slavery

black people working for no pay, in intense labor systems

triangular trade

the trade between three contients

Middle Passage

moving between the african contient and the american contient, a very diffucult travel

english cultural dominion

A life style of the peoples in the british colonies

Benjamin West

A historical painter who the death of many women

John Copley

A portrait maker for colonial america

Benjamin Franklin

Wrote poor richards almanack

Poor Richard Almanack

Written by Benjamin Franklin

Phillis Wheatly

A female black poet

John Bartram

The father of american botany

Professions: Law, Medicine, and Religion

Jobs that are currently even very important to the furtherment of a civilized society

religous tolerance

how we treat others of oposing beliefs

established church

the kings angelican belief that was carried too the american colonies

What is the Great Awakening?

A series of religious revivals in the American colonies during the 18th century, focusing on individual piety and personal relationships with God.

Jonathon Edwards

third president of Princton

George Whitefield

One of the founders of the Methodist sect of christianity

Cotton Mather

Writer also clergyman who wrote about theological, historical and scientific subjects

Sectarian

Someone that is a member of the Christian belief but specifically the Bapist and whom is unwilling to take into consideration the view of others in different sects of the religon

Nonsectarian

Not puting themselves agianst other versions of the same religon but rather considereing themselves as Christian not Methodists, or Baptists

Subsistence farming

To grown only what is needed to feed a family

J, Hector St. John Crevecoeur

French american farmer, author, and diplomat

Colonial Families

units of people consisting of a mother, father, and child that lived in the 13 of these

Germans

People hailing from the native country of hitler

Huguenots

A french group that was religously persecuted against by the french king, who them moed to Canada

Dutch

People hailing from the Netherlands

Swedes

These people are known for not getting involved in any war, also has geneva as a city

Africans

People coming from the contient below europe are also historically know as “Black People“ in the americas

immigrants

people moving from country to couty either willingly or forcible due to the conditions present in their home countries

social mobilitty

To move from class to class with ease by working for it, not just to be stuck in the lower class for 100s of generations

hereditary aristocracy

The wealth of families being (traditionally) passed down from father to son and the title as wel (eg. Duke, Lord)

John Peter Zenger

Famous for writting in his newpaper The New York Weekly Journal against the king, was put on trial

Andrew Hamilton

Former speaker of the house of representatives of Pennslyvania

Enlightenment

An intellectual and cultural movment that occured in the americas and europe

Colonial Governors

People put in charge of laws and regulations, also heads of the houses formed in Virginia and the other 12

Colonial Legislatures

People who created laws in the 13 of these, also a branch of government

Town Meetings

Where people come together to speak about their grievnces in certain portions of a province or city

County Government

Local rule put into place to take care of elections among other things within their area (eg Riverside ___ DA’s office)

Limited Democracy

A place where only a certain type of people could partake in government such as voting rights