DE US History Unit 2

Vocab 2.2-2.5

John Cabot

Explored the northeast coast of north america in 1497 and 1498

Corporate Colony

Colonies operated by joint stock companies during the early years of the colonies

Proprietary Colony

Colonies that began as land grants by the king of England to aristocrats like Lord Baltimore (MD)

Virginia Company

Company that settled Jamestown in 1607

Joint Stock company

Companies that raise money by selling stock

Headright System

Law that granted land to new settlers in Chesapeake area

Pilgrims

Puritans (aka Separatists) who had left Church of England and migrated to America on Mayflower

Mayflower Compact

1st “Constitution” in North America. It provided for Puritan self government

John Winthrop

A wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Great Migration

1620-1640 the migration in this period of English settlers

Anne Hutchinson

Puritan convicted of heresy and went to Rhode Island

Halfway Covenant

People could now take part in church services and activities without making a formal commitment to Christ (1660) caused by: the next generation of colonists were less committed to religious faith

Triangular Trade

Merchants traded colonist rum for African slaves

Navigation Acts

Laws imposed by Britain on the American colonists that required colonists to trade primarily with Britain

Bacon's Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon leads followers against corrupt VA governor William Berkeley but dies suddenly (in 1676). It helped to decrease the power of the plantation elites and to improve life for yeoman farmers and indentured servants but lead to importation of slave labor

Pueblo Revolt

Pueblo Indians rose up against Spanish missionaries and settlers; established a short lived confederacy