AP United States History Unit 2 (1607-1754) Terms List

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering essential terms, individuals, acts, and events for AP United States History Unit 2 (1607-1754).

Dominion of New England

1686-1689 administrative union imposed by King James II combining New England colonies, New York, and New Jersey under Sir Edmund Andros to strictly enforce mercantilist trade laws.

Fort Necessity

Stockade in southwestern Pennsylvania where George Washington surrendered to French forces in 1754, triggering the French and Indian War.

Gen. James Oglethorpe

English reformer who founded Georgia in 1732 as a debtor sanctuary and a military buffer state against Spanish Florida.

Navigation Acts

Series of British parliamentary laws (starting in 1651) enforcing mercantilism by requiring colonial trade to occur on British ships and routing key colonial imports through England.

Paxton Boys

Group of Scots-Irish frontiersmen in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group in 1763, attacking peaceful Native Americans and protesting eastern Quaker political domination.

Peace of Paris 1763

Treaty ending the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War); France ceded almost all North American territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.

Pontiac's Rebellion

1763 pan-Native American confederated uprising against British military posts in the Great Lakes and Ohio region, prompting Britain to issue the Proclamation of 1763.

Proprietary Colonies

Colonies granted by royalty to private individuals or families with full administrative authority, including Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.

Quakers

Religious Society of Friends who settled Pennsylvania under William Penn, practicing pacifism, religious tolerance, gender equality, and fair interactions with Native Americans.

Regulators

Backcountry farmers in North and South Carolina during the late 1760s who organized armed resistance against corrupt colonial officials and unequal taxation.

Restoration Colonies

Colonies chartered during the English Restoration period under King Charles II (e.g., Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) as rewards for political allies.

Sir Edmund Andros

Autocratic royal governor of the Dominion of New England (1686-1689) who abolished colonial assemblies, limited town meetings, levied taxes without consent, and strictly enforced trade acts.

Stono Rebellion

1739 slave uprising in South Carolina where enslaved people seized weapons and marched toward Spanish Florida, resulting in the passage of harsher slave codes.

Triangular Trade

Transatlantic trade network exchanging European manufactured goods for African captives, who were transported to the Americas to produce raw materials sent back to Europe.

William Penn

Quaker leader who founded Pennsylvania in 1681 as a 'Holy Experiment' guaranteeing freedom of religion, democratic government, and peaceable relations with Native Americans.

Albany Plan

A 1754 proposal by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonial governments under British rule; would help strengthen colonial defense and trade; British rejected the idea; was the first significant proposal to unite the colonies under a single government.