Key Terms
A document granting certain specified rights, powers, privileges, or functions from sovereign state power to an individual or organized group.
What is a charter?
The idea that the Puritans had entered into a covenant or contract with God and the settlement would become an example of righteousness to all the world.
What is the "City on the Hill"?
An English settler in America who saved Jamestown and Virginia.
Who is John Rolfe?
In 1577, Sir Francis Drake claims the western coast for Elizabeth I, and celebration the first Protestant religious services in North America. (he named it . . .)
What is "New Albion"?
The Society of Friends, a religious group that stresses the interior guidance of the Holy Spirit and rejects external religious rites and ordained ministry.
Who are the Quakers?
Guaranteed the traditional safeguards of English liberty: free elections; trial by jury; the right not to be deprived of life, liberty, or the due process of law; the right not be taxed if not represented; and the right not be forced to incriminate oneself in trial.
What is The Body of Liberties and the General Fundamentals?
An English Adventurer and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, who provoked interest in America by his attempts at settlement.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
In 1623, the Netherlands establishes a province on the northern Hudson River.
What is "New Netherlands"?
An act approved by Lord Baltimore and the Maryland colonial government guaranteeing the free exercise of religion for all Christian groups in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act?
A system in which land, and its resources, was granted to a man who funded the passage of 50 colonists to New Netherlands.
What is the patroon system?
A New England "heretic" who objected to the regime in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
in 1607, an English colony is founded in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
White laborers whose passage to America was paid in return for a specified number years of labor.
What are indentured servants?
A Protestant religious group who separated themselves from the Church of England because it was not "pure" enough.
Who are the saints?
Navigator and explorer who by his voyages helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada.
Who is John Cabot?
In 1606, Gosnold established a trading company that sold investments in America. King James I granted a charter for a colony to be formed.
What is the London Company?
A pledge that one acknowledged the king as head of the Church of England.
What is the Oath of Supremacy?
This document is significant to the founding of the U.S. It stated that English-American states would be governed by written laws that were seen as covenants or contracts between the people and the government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A Virginia planter who led a rebellion against Virginia's government.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
The bloodiest war ever fought on New England soil.
What is King Philip's War?