Dan Hayes
AP U.S History Vocabulary
1. Lord de la Warr He was a new governor that imposed a harsh military regime on
Jamestown in 1610. He took aggressive actions toward the Indians as well.
2. Pocahontas She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. She is best known for assisting colonial settlers at Jamestown.
3. Law of Primogeniture This is a law that gives the right to the firstborn child to inherit the entire estate. This law excludes the female children.
4. Anne Hutchinson She held Bible meetings for women and men; eventually she began proclaiming her own interpretations of the bible. Later she was accused of antinomianism. 5. Roger Williams He was an English Protestant who believed in the separation of church and state. He started the first Baptist church in America called, the First Baptist Church of Providence.
6. Jamestown It was the first permanent English settlement in the United States. It was one of the original eight shires of Virginia; located in James City Shire.
7. Mayflower Compact It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. In 1620, the colonists who crossed the Atlantic of the Mayflower signed this document.
8. Nathaniel Bacon He was a colonist of the Virginia Colony. Led Bacon’s Rebellion in
1676 to murder the Indians because Governor Berkeley would not do anything about it.
9. Headright System It was a legal grant of land to settlers. This encouraged the importation of servant workers for masters to gain pieces of land.
10. John Peter Zenger He was a GermanAmerican printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. He was a defendant in a legal case that laid the foundation for
American press freedom.
11. Great Awakening This refers to a period of religious revival in America’s history. There were three
