APUSH Unit 2/ Time period 1 vocab

Portugal

First nation to begin overseas travel

Christopher columbus

reached Asia by going west; convinced Queen of Spain to sponsor

Aztecs

civilization; economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, social diversification among society.

encomienda system

forced labor for non Christian

mestizos

mixed ancestry between whites and slaves

john rolfe

tried planting tobacco, grew to financially save Jamestown

charter colony

retrain the rights of the state(Virginia company)

Proprietary colony

one or more landowners retain the rights of the state(William Penn)

Royal colony

controlled by king (British gov.)

William Penn

founder of proprietor pennsylvania, prominent quaker and advocated for religious tolerance

Barbados Slave Code

strict slave codes to control them as population grew

Act of Toleration

provided freedom of all religion for all Christian, denied all others

Lords Proprietors

Charles ll granted a colonial charter to 8 of his court favorites; wanted to use the colony to produce food for their sugar colonies

Charles Town

grew as the main trading center of the colony

Mayflower Compact

an agreement to set up a temporary government which set the basis of self-governemnt.

Great Puritan Migration

20,000 Puritans came over to Mass. Bay over the next 10 years

Mass. Bay Company

wanted profit but saw as religious haven; City upon a Hill

John Winthrop

chosen as governor + set capital up at boston

Anne Hutchinson

challenged religion in Mass. Bay, predestination + roles; banished and moved to Rhode Island

Roger Williams

minister, expelled from MA Bay, built Rhode Island

• Complete freedom of religion

• No state church

Bacon’s Rebellion

An uprising in Virginia (1676) by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor Berkeley, primarily due to grievances over land and Native American policies. It highlighted class tensions and the desire for more land.

The Salem Witch Trials

religious episode due to changing religious, economic, and social characteristics of Puritan; showed injustice of the period and strict nature of Puritan society

Salutary Neglect

left colonies to be governed by the assemblies, furthering the importance of self-reliance/ self government