APUSH Unit 2 Vocab 2025

Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore

• In 1634, he established the colony of Maryland that would be a haven for Catholics in America.
• The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics.
• He was sent England to govern the Dominion of New England. He was very unpopular by levying new taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.
• In 1702, William Penn granted the lower three colonies of Pennsylvania their own assembly and thereby established this Middle colony.
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Act of Toleration

• The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics.
• In 1634, he established the colony of Maryland that would be a haven for Catholics in America.
• Members of the Religious Society of Friends who believed in the equality of men and women, nonviolence, and resistance to military service.
• In 1702, William Penn granted the lower three colonies of Pennsylvania their own assembly and thereby established this Middle colony.
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Roger Williams

• A respected Puritan minister who believed that the individual's conscience was beyond the control of any civil or church authority. He was banished from the Bay colony for his beliefs. In 1636, he founded Rhode Island.
• In 1634, he established the colony of Maryland that would be a haven for Catholics in America.
• He was sent England to govern the Dominion of New England. He was very unpopular by levying new taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.
• In 1702, William Penn granted the lower three colonies of Pennsylvania their own assembly and thereby established this Middle colony.
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Anne Hutchinson

• This Puritan believed in antinomianism and was banished from the Bay colony because of her beliefs. In 1638, she founded the colony of Portsmouth.
• In 1634, he established the colony of Maryland that would be a haven for Catholics in America.
• He was sent England to govern the Dominion of New England. He was very unpopular by levying new taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.
• She was the American Indian wife of John Rolfe in early settlement days in Jamestown.
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antinomianism

• The idea that faith alone, not deeds, is necessary for salvation.
• System of labor involving imported Africans who arrived in the colonies in 1619, they were not slaves for life, but worked for a period of time, like an indentured servant. Then discriminatory laws were passed, slaves and their offspring were kept in permanent bondage.
• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
• In 1702, William Penn granted the lower three colonies of Pennsylvania their own assembly and thereby established this Middle colony.
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Rhode Island

• In 1644, Parliament granted Roger Williams a charter, joining Providence and Portsmouth into a single colony, Rhode Island.
• The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics.
• He was sent England to govern the Dominion of New England. He was very unpopular by levying new taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.
• A joint-stock company that founded the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607.
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Halfway covenant

• In the 1660s, people could now take part in church services and activities without making a formal commitment to Christ. It was created because the next generation of colonists were less committed to religious faith, but churches still needed members.
• Members of the Religious Society of Friends who believed in the equality of men and women, nonviolence, and resistance to military service.
• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
• A joint-stock company that founded the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607.
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Quakers

• Members of the Religious Society of Friends who believed in the equality of men and women, nonviolence, and resistance to military service.
• The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics.
• He was sent England to govern the Dominion of New England. He was very unpopular by levying new taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.
• They were radical dissenters to the Church of England. They moved to Holland, then in 1620, they sailed to America on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. They established a new colony at Plymouth on the Massachusetts coast.
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William Penn

• In 1861, the royal family paid a large debt by granting his family a large parcel of American land. This Quaker, formed a colony that he named Pennsylvania.
• In 1634, he established the colony of Maryland that would be a haven for Catholics in America.
• He was sent England to govern the Dominion of New England. He was very unpopular by levying new taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.
• A joint-stock company that founded the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607.
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Holy Experiment

• William Penn put his Quaker beliefs to the test in his colony, Pennsylvania. He wanted the colony to provide a religious refuge for Quakers and other persecuted people, enact liberal ideas in government, and generate income and profits for himself.
• Members of the Religious Society of Friends who believed in the equality of men and women, nonviolence, and resistance to military service.
• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
• Profitable cash crop raised primarily in Virginia and North Carolina.
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