Chapter 2 Key Terms

APUSH

House of Burgesses

Representative parliamentary assembly for Virginia

Act of Toleration

Guaranteed toleration

Barbados Slave Code

Statute, very relaxed about slave owners & super strict towards slaves

English Civil War

War between royalist and parliament result parliament victory

squatters

Farmers who illegally occupy land (not open for official settlement)

Tuscarora War

Bloodiest NC War, between Tuscarora & Yamasee in North Carolina

Yamasee Indians

Defeated by South Carolinans in War of 1715-16, devastating last of coastal Indian tribes in Southern colonies

buffer

territory between 2 rivals to minimise conflict and protect

Calvinism

dominant theological credo of New England Puritans based on John Calvins teachings

predestination

Belief that God already decided fate (heaven/hell)

conversion

religious experience confirming an individual’s place (“elect” or visible saint)

Puritans

English Protestant reformers, want to purify church

Separatists

Group of Puritans who wanted to break away from Church of England

Mayflower Compact

Foundation for self-government in plymouth

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Largest and most influential of New England colonies

Great English Migration

Migration of 70k refugees from Eng. to New End. and Carribean

antinomianism

belief that elect do not need to obey man or God

Fundamental Orders

first modern constitution; established democratically controlled gov. drafted by Connecticut river valley settlers

Pequot War

Conflict between Eng. settlers and Pequot Indians in Connecticut river valley

King Philip’s War

Metacom/King Philip attack Eng. Settlement in New Eng.

New Eng. Confederation

Union of 4 colonies for defense and organisation

Navigation Laws

regulate colonial trade laws

Dominion of New Eng.

union of New Eng. New York, East and West New Jersey under Sir Edmund Andros

Glorious revolution

overthrow of Catholic King James II of England

Salutary neglect

time of relaxed colonial trade laws

Quakers

religious group known for tolerance and peace

blue laws

aka sumptuary laws, restricting personal behaviour with strict morality code