APUSH Key Terms Units 1-2

Archaic Period

Archaic Period

pre-colombus

Cahokia

NA city in mississppi

Clovis People

NA hunter-gatherers

Encomienda

spanish labor system for NA

Henry Hudston

English explorer, explored parts of north america

Puritans

Seperatists that found refuge in new england colonies

Roanoke

failed Eng colony attempt in NC

Samuel de Champlain

French Explorer

sir humphrey gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh

Tried to create colonies in roanoke, failed

Anne Hutchinson and Rodger Williams

Bacon's Rebellion

Rebellion by Nathaniel Bacon, upset that NA were terrorizing his land and the gov would do nothing abt it- led to use of non-yts as slaves

George and Cecilius Calvert

Colony of Maryland (catholic)

Glorious Revolution

Revolution in Eng

Headright System

50 acres per colonial settler who paid for passage

James Oglethorpe

Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many colonists felt that Oglethorpe was a dictator, and that (along with the colonist's dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the colony to break down and Oglethorpe to lose his position as governor.

John Smith

explorer who helped found Jamestown, Virginia

John Winthrop

Founded Massachussets bay colony

King Phillips War

NA against New England colonies + their NA allies

Massachusets Bay Company

puritan colony

Metacomet

NA, fought in King Phillip's war, decapitated and used as example for other NA

Navigation Acts

tax on non-Eng imported and exported goods

Pequot war

NA war w/ Massachussets bay (puritans)

Quakers

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Roger Williams

Founded Rhode Island for religious freedom

Sir William Berkeley

Govenor of Virgina, helped cause Bacon's rebellion

theocracy

government run by religious leaders

Virgina House of Burgesses

elected colonial gov in Jamestown

William Bradford

govenor of plymouth colony

William Penn

Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

George Whitefield

preached the great awakening

Great Awakening

protestant revivalism (new lights vs old lights)

John and Charles Wesley

John Peter Zenger

great awakening methodists

Jonathan Edwards

great awakening preacher

Saugus Ironworks

first ironworks in US

Scots-Irish

protestant colonists

Stono Rebellion

slave rebellion in SC