APUSH 2.3 vocab

Question 1

corporate colonies

Answer 1

Ex: Jamestown
These were operated by joint-stock companies, at least during these colonies’ early years.

Question 2

royal colonies

Answer 2

Such as Virginia after 1624, were to be under the direct authority and rule of the king’s government.

Question 3

proprietary colonies

Answer 3

Such as Maryland and Pennsylvania, were under the authority of individuals granted charters of ownership by the king.

Question 4

virginia company

Answer 4

England’s King James I chartered this joint-stock company that founded the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607.

Question 5

jamestown

Answer 5

This was the first permanent English colony in America in 1607.

Question 6

separatists

Answer 6

These were radical dissenters that wanted to organize a completely separate Church that was independent of royal control.

Question 7

pilgrims

Answer 7

These people were known as Separatists, as several hundred of them left England for Holland in search of religious freedom. Due to their travels, they coined this name.

Question 8

mayflower

Answer 8

In 1620, a small group of Pilgrims set sail for Virgina aboard this. Fewer than half of the 100 passengers on this were Separatists, the rest were people who had economic motives for making the voyage.

Question 9

puritans

Answer 9

This group of more moderate dissenters believed that the Church of England could be reformed, or purified. The persecution of these people increased when a new king, Charles I, took the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company (1629).

Question 10

great migration

Answer 10

Religious and political conflict in England in the 1630s drove some 15000 settlers to the Massachusetts Bay colony - and this was the name of the movement.

Question 11

act of toleration

Answer 11

In 1649, Calvert persuaded the assembly to adopt this, which was the first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians. However, the stature also called for the death of anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus.

Question 12

protestant revolt

Answer 12

In the late 1600s, Protestants angered by a Catholic proprietor ignited a civil war. The Protestants triumphed as they replaced the Act of Toleration. Catholics lost the right to vote in elections for the assembly.

Question 13

antinomianism

Answer 13

The idea that since individuals receive salvation through their faith alone, they were not required to follow traditional moral laws.

Question 14

halfway covenant

Answer 14

To be a full member of a Puritan congregation, individuals needed to have a confirmed religious experience, a conversion. However, fewer members of the new native-born generation were having such experiences. To maintain the Church’s influence and membership, they created this and offered it to some clergy so that people could become partial members even if they had not felt a conversion.

Question 15

rice-growing plantations

Answer 15

This was worked by the enslaved Africans by the middle of the 18th century. In South Carolina, it resembled the economy and culture of the West Indies.

Question 16

tobacco farms

Answer 16

The region that became North Carolina had few good harbors and poor transportation. As a result, it developed few large plantations and little reliance on slavery. It attracted farmers from Virginia and New England who established small, self-sufficient of these.

Question 17

William Penn & the Quakers

Answer 17

The son of William Penn who was left his land when Penn died. He had joined a group of Christians that had radical beliefs such as believed that religious authority was found within each person and not in the Bible nor any outside source, making them believe in equality among all men and women and to reject violence and resist military service. Since their beliefs challenged authority, they were persecuted and jailed for their beliefs.

Question 18

Frame of government

Answer 18

Penn put his quaker beliefs to the test by enacting liberal ideas in government. So he provided a Frame of Government, which guaranteed a representative assembly elected by landowners, and a written constitution, called the Charter of Liberties (1701), which guaranteed freedom of worship for all and unrestricted immigration.