Mid-Priority APUSH S1 Final Flashcards

Headright System

Land grants used to encourage settlement and labor migration

Separatists

Puritans who wanted to separate from the Church of England

Congregationalists

Puritans who wanted to reform the Church of England from within

Bacon’s Rebellion

Uprising by Virginia settlers that revealed class tensions

Mercantilism

Economic system where colonies existed to benefit the mother country

Navigation Acts

Laws restricting colonial trade to benefit Britain

Enlightenment

Intellectual movement emphasizing reason and natural rights

Great Awakening

Religious revival that challenged traditional authority

Stamp Act

Tax on printed materials that sparked colonial protest

Proclamation of 1763

British ban on colonial settlement west of the Appalachians

First Continental Congress

Meeting to coordinate colonial resistance to Britain

Second Continental Congress

Governed the colonies during the American Revolution

Shay’s Rebellion

Farmers’ uprising showing weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Northwest Ordinance

Established rules for admitting new states and banning slavery in the Northwest Territory

Jay’s Treaty

Attempt to improve relations between the U.S. and Britain

Alien and Sedition Acts

Laws limiting immigrant rights and free speech

Market Revolution

Economic shift toward industrialization and national markets

American System

Henry Clay’s plan for economic growth through tariffs and infrastructure

Republican Motherhood

Belief that women should raise virtuous citizens

Cult of Domesticity

Ideal that women belonged in the home

Transcendentalism

Movement emphasizing individualism and self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leader of the Transcendentalist movement

Henry David Thoreau

Advocated civil disobedience and individual conscience

Seneca Falls Convention

First women’s rights convention in the U.S.