UNIT 1-2 VOCAB

Mercantilism

Heavy government control on exploration

Encomienda system

White men granted land, natives who lived on land became laborers

Spanish hegemony

Spain taking over

Mission system

Spain expanding northward with missionaries

Jamestown

first colonie, mostly men coming to work

Joint-stock company

Investors shared financial burden of colonie

Bacon’s rebellion

led poor farmers and indentured servants to attack natives and Berkeley’s plantations, led to more slavery

Chattel slavery

slaves are property, status is permentant and inherited

William Penn

Founded Pennsylvania

Virginia House of Burgesses

Virginia’as colonial government

Mayflower compact

Self-governance system for pilgrims

Consumer revolution

Societal status based on wealth not family

Pueblo revolt

Uprising of native pueblo people against Spanish rule

Metacom’s war

conflict over land between english and Mohawk chief Metacom

Stono rebellion

example of resistance to slavery, slaves stole weapons and killed owners

John Locke

Natural rights

First great awakening

religous revival that led to empahsis on democracy

Pietism

Heart over head

Impressment

American saliors siezed and forced to serve in royal navy by Britian