APUSH Module 2 Study Guide

Vocabulary flashcards reviewing APUSH Module 2 concepts including European colonial styles, regional colony characteristics, economic systems, religious groups, and colonial social structures.

French Colonialism / Native Relations

Colonial strategy focused on trade rather than conquest, establishing trade posts at Quebec and Montreal, and allying and intermarrying with Indians to access fur trade goods.

British Colonialism / Native Relations

Colonial effort driven by inflation and a large number of indentured servants seeking new forms of wealth in North America; frequently raided Indian villages for food or territory, forcing Indians to submit.

Chesapeake Colonies

Virginia and Maryland; colonies focused on growing tobacco as a cash crop worked by indentured servants.

Massachusetts

A New England colony featuring small fields, orchards, and some subsistence farmers who sold goods to other colonists at market.

Middle Colonies

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; characterized by high religious tolerance, diverse European ethnic groups, and a mix of highly skilled artisans and poor unskilled laborers.

South Carolina

A Southern colony centered on rice plantations run by slaves to feed other slave plantations.

West Indies Colonies

Colonies focused on sugar plantations as a cash crop, utilizing slaves under a brutal slave code with continuous imports from Africa's Ivory Coast.

Mercantilism

Economic system that fueled European empires by taking as much wealth as possible for the mother country.

Navigation Acts

British laws setting rules for commerce to ensure profits were not lost and banning the smuggling of goods.

Pilgrims

A religious group that wanted to establish a new colony away from the Church of England.

Puritans

A religious group focused on purity, living a life away from sin, and forming small close-knit communities.

Quakers

A pacifist Protestant group based in Pennsylvania.

Evangelicals

Preachers who went on preaching tours during the Great Awakening, exposing people's sins, calling on them to give everything to God, and bringing many new followers to religion in the colonies.

Colonial Planters / Farmers

The majority of colonial society seeking to better their lives, who served as the main voice of colonist governments.

Colonial Women

Group in colonial society mostly restricted to household roles, except within certain religious sects.

Colonial Slaves

Group in colonial society seen mostly as property with very little chance of obtaining freedom or rights.