Spanish in the Americas
Goods, ideas, diseases, and people that moved between the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Each region was significantly impacted as a result of trade and contact.
Columbian Exchange
Jamestown
First permanent English settlement. Founded by London Company. 1607.
English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
Pilgrims
1676. Virginia. Backcountry farmers wanted to a raise a militia and attack nearby tribes. Governor Berkeley refused and farmers (many indentured servants) rebelled
Bacon's Rebellion
A religious group who came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay in 1630's. Believed that only "visible saints" should be admitted to church membership.
Puritans
This gave settlers the right to tax and enslave local Native Americans. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity.
encomienda system
Daughter of Chief Powahatan
Pocahontas
1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by 41 men and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
Mayflower Compact
1675-1676: Marked the last major effort by the Indians of New England to drive out the English settlers. Massachusetts Bay won the war.
King Philip's War
1630s- 70,000 refugees (mostly Puritans) left England for New World. Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay colony.
Great Migration
The belief spread by competing empires that the Spanish only stole, killed, and tortured in the Americas
the Black Legend
Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.
John Smith
As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill"
John Winthrop
1680, revolt of native Americans leader named Pope. Killed Spanish colonists and priests and got Spanish out of modern-day New Mexico
Pueblo (Pope's) Revolt
A Puritan church document that allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members to increase membership.
Half-Way Covenant
A Spanish monk who wrote a scathing account of Spanish treatment of the Native Americans. He devoted most of his life to protecting American Indians from Spanish
Bartolome de las Casas
One of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export,
John Rolfe
A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south.
Roger Williams
1739, South Carolina - One of the 2 major slave rebellions (also NY City Slave Rebellion) during colonial America, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws
Stono Rebellion
(1730s-1740s) a series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies that brought emotion to religion. Led to the division of churches
1st Great Awakening
A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, dividing the newly discovered lands along an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean.
Treaty of Tordesillas
A business arrangement in which many investors raise money for a venture too large for any of them to undertake alone.
joint-stock company
Woman who challenged Purtian religous authorities in Massachusetts Bay, banished because she challenged religious doctrine and gender roles.
Anne Hutchinson
1637. Conflict between the Puritans of Mass. Bay and Native Americans. Caused by colonists moving closer and closer to the tribes area and conflicts arise over unfair trading and destruction of crops.
Pequot War
A legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland. Protected the Catholics religion from Protestants.
Act of Toleration