Apush Vocab Unit 2

• Compare and contrast Spanish, French, Dutch, and British methods of colonization. How were they alike, and how were they different? Be sure to consider their economic goals, relations with American Indians, and demographic features/patterns of settlement.

• What factors contributed to the rise of the Atlantic slave trade in the British colonies, and how did slavery in the southern American colonies compare to slavery in the Caribbean?

• What methods (both overt and covert) did enslaved people use to resist slavery?

• What regional characteristics were evident in the British colonies? Be sure to discuss the New England, Chesapeake, Southern, and Middle colonies.

• What was Bacon’s Rebellion, and why was it so significant for the Virginia colony?

• What were the causes and effects of the French and Indian War?

Section II: Important terms, events, and people

Describe each term’s characteristics, explain its significance, or identify relevant causes and effects.

encomienda system

mercantilism

Pueblo Revolt

Spanish casta system

Columbian Exchange

founding of Jamestown

Virginia Company

indentured servant

headright system

House of Burgesses

royal colony

Bacon’s Rebellion

Puritan

Church of England (Anglican Church)

Pilgrims (Separatists)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Massachusetts Bay Colony

John Winthrop 

the Great Migration

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

antinomianism

theocracy

Pequot War

Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War)

Peter Stuyvesant

Lord Baltimore

Maryland Toleration Act (1649)

proprietary colony

William Penn

Navigation Acts

Dominion of New England

Glorious Revolution

Stono rebellion

salutary neglect

James Oglethorpe

Enlightenment

John Locke

Great Awakening

deism

Jonathan Edwards

George Whitefield

Albany Plan of Union

Iroquois Confederacy

French and Indian War

Presbyterian revival

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Proclamation of 1763

Paxton Boys