APUSH Unit 2 Test Review

These flashcards cover key terms, events, and concepts relevant to APUSH Unit 2 as reviewed in the lecture notes.

Joint-stock company

A business entity where different shares of the company are owned by different shareholders, often used to finance colonial ventures.

Jamestown

The first permanent English settlement in America, established in 1607, known for tobacco cultivation.

Royal colony

A colony governed directly by the crown through a governor and council.

House of Burgesses

The first representative legislative assembly in the American colonies, established in Virginia in 1619.

Maryland Act of Toleration

A law enacted in 1649 that granted religious freedom to Christians in Maryland.

Plymouth Colony

Founded in 1620 by Pilgrims, it is known for the first Thanksgiving in 1621.

Mayflower Compact

An agreement made by the Pilgrims to establish a form of self-government.

Great Migration

The period from 1630 to 1642 when thousands of Puritans emigrated to New England.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Considered the first written constitution in the colonies, adopted in 1638.

New England Confederation

A short-lived military alliance between the Puritan colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven in 1643.

Dominion of New England

A short-lived administrative union of English colonies in the New England region.

King Philip’s War

A conflict in 1676 between New England colonists and Native American inhabitants.

New Amsterdam

A Dutch settlement that later became New York City.

Indentured servants

Individuals who worked for a period of time in exchange for passage to America.

Bacon’s Rebellion

A 1676 uprising in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor Berkeley.

Trans-Atlantic slave trade

The trading system in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.

Salutary Neglect

An unofficial British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of Parliamentary laws.

Great Awakening

A religious revival in the American colonies during the early 18th century.

John Locke

An Enlightenment philosopher who argued for natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.