APUSH Unit 2 Vocab

Jamestown

First permanent English settlement in North America

Great Awakening

Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

George Whitefield

Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights."

Roger Williams

A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south

New England Town Meetings

Focus of NE politics. Allowed all adult males in communities to participate in governing. New England system would not work well in cities with large populations.

Mercantilism

an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

Navigation Acts

Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England.

Mayflower Compact

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America.

French and Indian War

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area.

Quakers

English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity.

Salem Witch Hunt

Period of hysteria in 1692, when a group of teenaged girls accused neighbors of bewitching them.

Salutary Neglect

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

Proclamation of 1763

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Iroquois Confederacy

a group of Native American nations in eastern North America joined together under one general government

Deism

A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.

Maryland Toleration Act

Act that was passed in Maryland that guaranteed toleration to all Christians, regardless of sect but not to those who did not believe in the divinity of Jesus.

Virginia House of Burgesses

The first elected assembly in the New World, established in 1619

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Set up a unified government for the towns of the Connecticut area. (First constitution written in America)

King Phillip's War

A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians.

Pilgrims/Separatists

Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.