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Greater & greater centralization of power in the hands of a single ruler.
What is absolutism
Highly profitable, called "filthy novelty"
What is tobacco
Established in 1607 and named for James 1.
What is Jamestown
Legislative body
What is Parliament
The queen of England, also known as the Virgin queen.
Who is Elizabeth I
The ability to authorize taxes and control the crowns access to them.
What is Power of the Purse
A private company, in search of wealth.
Who is Virginia Company?
The first permanent English colony in New England
What is Plymouth
Who are Powhatan Indians
A strong-willed soldier & leader.
Who is John Smith?
Sought to justify a revolution against great Britain.
Social contract
Built up over many years by many generations of judges.
What is precedents
A small group of separatists
What are Pilgrims
Wealthy Lawyer and founder/leading figure in the Massachusetts bay Colony.
A short document that organized themselves as a political body.
What is the Mayflower compact
Sermon that was preached by Winthrop before landing in America.
What is a "City on a Hill?"
Colony that had a lot of influence over the shape of colonial New England.
What is Massachusetts Bay
English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to purify the Church of England of remaining Roman Catholic traditions
What are puritans?
A wealthy founder of the Quakers
Who is William Penn?
A law that relied on the decision of previous courts.
What is common law
Seeking to create "holy commonwealths"
What is an "Errand Into the Wilderness"
People who have lived in disbarring ground because of storms like Daniel Borstin. Also an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable, harmonious, or near-perfect qualities for its citizen
What is Utopia
Group of people that abandoned the Church of England.
What are Seperatists
Who is Roger Williams?