APUSH Terms Periods 1 & 2

New England Colonies

Massachusetts

Salutary Neglect

Lack of enforcement of the Navigation Acts after the Glorious Revolution

Metacomet (King Phillip)

Wampanoag chief killed after a 3-year conflict with New England colonists

Roger Williams

Baptist minister who founded Rhode Island after being expelled from Massachusetts

John Cabot

Claimed North America for England in 1497

Huron

French-allied tribe that fought against the Iroquois

Sioux

Northern Great Plains tribe that hunted buffalo and lived in teepees

Jamestown

First permanent English settlement in America

Encomienda System

Forced labor system in Spanish colonies

Bacon’s Rebellion

Event that led to the development of slavery in the colonies

William and Mary

Leaders of England after the Glorious Revolution

John Peter Zenger

His trial set the precedent for freedom of the press in America

James Oglethorpe

Founder of Georgia

Chesapeake Colonies

Virginia and Maryland

William Bradford

Governor of Plymouth and author of "History of Plymouth Plantation"

Puritans

Group that founded Massachusetts Bay

Separatists (Pilgrims)

Group that founded Plymouth

John Rolfe

Married Pocahontas and brought prosperity to Jamestown through tobacco

Queen Elizabeth I

Virginia was named after her

Prince Henry the Navigator

Started a school in Portugal to train explorers

William and Mary College

Only southern college during the colonial era

Jonathan Edwards

George Whitefield

Maryland

Colony founded as a haven for Catholics

John Smith

Replaced the Common Store System with policy based on 2 Thess. 3:10

Reasons Georgia Was Founded

Debtor colony

Stono Rebellion

1739 slave uprising in South Carolina

King James II

Monarch overthrown during the Glorious Revolution

John Winthrop

Governor of Massachusetts Bay who called Boston a “city on a hill”

Nathaniel Bacon

Led a revolt against the Virginia plantation aristocracy in 1676

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

First written constitution in America

Sir Edmund Andros

Leader of the Dominion of New England arrested after the Glorious Revolution

Restoration Colonies

Colonies like Pennsylvania and Carolina founded during Charles II’s reign

Headright System

Gave colonists 50 acres for bringing indentured servants to Virginia

Peter Stuyvesant

Governor of New Netherlands who surrendered to the English in 1664

John White

Leader of Roanoke colony who returned in 1590 to find it deserted