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100
Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.
Who was John Smith?
100
Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy and father to Pocahontas.
Who was Powhatan?
100
The winter of 1609 to 1610 in which the colonists of Virginia suffered because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the New World.
What were the Starving Times?
100
In the 1660's England restricted colonial trade, saying Americans couldn't trade with other countries. The colonies were only allowed to trade with England.
What were the Navigation Acts?
100
This cross-eyed preacher travelled around colonial America to preach and sometimes attracted crowds of over 10,000 people. He preached that those who did not believe in Christ would go to Hell.
Who was George Whitefield?
200
An Englishman who saved the Virginia colony by perfecting the tobacco industry in North America.
Who was John Rolfe?
200
Tribe whose chief, Metacom, known to the colonies as King Phillip, united many tribes in southern New England against the English settlers
Who were the Wampanoags?
200
A joint-stock company, based in Virginia in 1607, founded to find gold and a water way to the Indies. Confirmed to all Englishmen that they would have the same life in the New World, as they had in England, with the same rights. 3 of their ships transported the people that would found Jamestown in 1607.
What was the Virginia Company?
200
1620- A contract made by the voyagers in Massachusetts Bay agreeing that they would form a simple government where majority ruled. Step one in self-government in the Northern colonies.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
200
Primary idea behind Calvinism; states that salvation or damnation are foreordained and unalterable; first put forth by John Calvin in 1531; was the core belief of the Puritans who settled New England in the seventeenth century
What is predestination?
300
An English adventurer and writer, who was prominent at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, and became an explorer of the Americas. He sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. It failed and is known as "The Lost Colony."
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
300
In the Great Lakes and Ohio River Areas, these people supplied their Algonquian allies with weapons and alcohol in order to halt the expansions of the Iroquois and the British
Who were the French?
300
Englishmen who were outcasts of their country, would work in the Americas for a certain amount of time as servants, usually seven years before being free to go.
What was indentured servitude?
300
The first representative assembly in the New World. The London Company authorized the settlers to summon this assembly.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
Nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral in 1517.
Who was Martin Luther?
400
the movement of Puritans from England to America in the 1630's, caused by political and religious unrest in England.
What is the Great Migration?
400
1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanoags, led by this chief. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.
What was King Philip's (Metacom's) War?
400
A way to attract immigrants; gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrant's way; mainly a system in the southern colonies.
What is the headright system?
400
1686 - The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros).
What is the Dominion of New England?
400
Both of these groups were part of the Protestant Puritan religious movement inspired by Calvinism. One group was guided by higher governing bodies of ministers, the other believed that each congregation should conduct its own affairs independently without authority.
What were Presbyterian churches and Congregationalist Churches?
500
a term used to describe the removal of James II from the English throne and the crowning of the Protestant monarchs, William and Mary.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
500
The Native Americans formed alliances and traded with the French for these 3 reasons:
What were a.textiles, glass, copper, ironware, metal tools. b. guns c. protection against other warring tribes (Mohawks)
500
1676 - Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for not addressing their concerns over Indians. The frontiersmen formed an army, with a charismatic leader they attacked a friendly tribe and eventually the group marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when the leader died of an illness.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
England was primarily concerned with British affairs and believed that unrestricted trade in the colonies would be more profitable for England than would taxation of the colonies. Also referred to the overall British tendency to allow the colonists to govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
500
a time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in reaction to the rise of skepticism and the waning of religious faith brought about by the Enlightenment. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America, stressing the need for individuals to repent and urging a personal understanding of truth.
What is the 1st Great Awakening?
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