APUSH Period 1-2 Vocabulary

Flashcards covering key vocabulary from APUSH Period 1-2.

Specialized Colonies

Region-specific characteristics of colonies.

Columbian Exchange

Transfer of animals, plants, and slaves across the Atlantic region.

Jamestown

First English settlement in Americas.

Plymouth

Settlement started by Puritans.

Puritans

Believed in Calvinist predestination; wanted to purify the Anglican church.

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Rebellion due to large amount of unsatisfied, newly freed indentured servants.

Stono Rebellion (1739)

Led by escaped slaves; slaves rose up and killed their masters, tried to escape to Spain’s Florida territory but were caught and executed.

First Great Awakening

Inspired by Europe’s Enlightenment and a burst of protestant denominations.

New England Colonies

Northernmost colonies, such as the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

“Bread-Basket” Colonies

Middle Colonies, such as Pennsylvania and NJ.

Chesapeake Region

Maryland, Virginia, etc.

Southern Colonies

Georgia, the Carolinas, etc.

Encomienda System

Essentially another form of slavery; used on Native American laborers.

Headright System

A landowner gets land for every “head” he pays to travel to the New World.

Indentured Servitude

Done with the citizens of Great Britain, especially for those who could not pay their trip over to the New World; work for a master to pay off the trip.

Chattel Slavery

A child born from an enslaved mother is enslaved by the same master once he/she is born.

Kinship Ties

A sort of family connection between slaves, which rose as a result to families being separated during auctions.

Mercantilism

Economic concept in which a “mother country” creates colonies with the purpose of obtaining raw materials from such colonies for the mother country’s benefit.

Salutary Neglect

A period of relative colonial autonomy; not much control from Great Britain over colonial affairs.

Navigation Acts

Acts passed by Parliament to regulate colonial trade, restricting colonial exports to only Great Britain.