APUSH UNIT 1

• Christopher Columbus


  An italian explorer who sailed for spain in 1492, discoverd west indies.
• Encomienda system


  a system where the spanish to conquer the natives through a charter.
• Pueblo revolt


  Revolt of pueblo Indians against Spanish rule in New Mexico 1680
• Colombian exchange


  Trade of goods, disease, and people between Europe and the Caribbean
• Mercantilism


  Governmental regulation of the economy
• Predestination


  Gods salvation for you when you were born if you were going to heaven or hell
• Puritans


  Purify the England church of all Roman Catholic elements
• Jamestown


  First permanent in North America established in Virginia
• Joint stock company


  Multiple investors investing in a colony to start receiving profits of what it makes
• Powhatan


  Native American people In Virginia
• John smith


  Explorer of Jamestown captured by Powhatan saved by Pocahontas
• Starving time


  The winter of 1609-1610, no food
• John rolfe


  married Pocahontas and converted her to Christianity, expander of tobacco = profit for Jamestown.
• Head right system


  Legal charters to settlers to earn acres of land
• House of burgesses


  First legislative assembly, Jamestown 1619
• Pocahontas


  Daughter of chief Powhatan, married to John Rolfe in 1619
• Act of toleration


  Formed in 1649 to keep non-Catholics In power
• Pilgrams


  Migrating puritans who escaped from England to America to spread religion
• Mayflower compact


  Written on the mayflower to establish a royal colony and a government
• John Winthrop


  Puritan leader who founded the Massachusetts bay colony
• Roger Williams


  Started Rhode Island by creating separation of church and state in 1644
• Anne Hutchinson


  Puritan theologian banished from Massachusetts for radical ideas
• King Philips war


  Metacomet;Wampanoags vs English, this is because it was the natives first resistance from English transformation, lands and culture.
• Quakers


  Wanted to restore simplicity and spirituality in the church (against slavery)
• William Penn


  Developed the colony of Pennsylvania for the quakers
• Navigation acts


  Closed all trade except from English ships, all goods had to pass through England customs
• Dominion of New England

  Eliminated assemblies and combined the colonies under the government
• Indentured servitude


  Bound to servitude for 3-7 years for a pass to America, food, and shelter
• Middle passage


  African Chiefs captured prisoners of war to be sold in slave marts so were them shipped to the Caribbean
• Slave codes


  Limiting black rights to all control under there master
• Planters


  Grew extremely wealthy, expands land, fields, labors
• Triangular trade


  Trade between England, Europe, Africa, and New England of goods
• Stono rebellion


  South Carolina 1739 slave rebellion
• Halfway covenant


  Partial Puritan church members who have receive a conversion
• Salem witch trials


  19 women executed due to independent practices for witch like behavior
• first Great awakening

  a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.
• Jonathan Edwards


  Original preacher/beliver, encouraged people to stay with Christ
• Enlightenment


  Growth into intellectual studies striving away from church beliefs into science over religion
• Bacons rebellion was a armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
• Powhatan wars, earliest conflicts between English and Powhatans confederacy. In Virginia over territorial disputes