John Names
This man used newspaper printer and protested royal governor. Put on trial for "act of treason". He was sentenced innocent because what he had written was true so set standards of freedom of the press.
John Peter Zenger
This man became known in 1738 during the 1st Great Awakening as a great preacher who had recently been an alehouse attendant. Everyone in the colonies loved to hear him preach of love and forgiveness because he had a passionate style of preaching. This led to new missionary
work in the Americas in converting Indians and Africans to Christianity, as well as lessening the
importance of the old clergy.
George Whitefield
This event was a religious revival occurring in the 1730's and 1740's to motivate the souls of colonial America. Motivational speakers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield helped to bring Americans together.
The Great Awakening
This group of religious reformists wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church. Their ideas started with John Calvin in the 16th century and they first began to leave England in
1608
Puritans
This planation system where Indians were essentially enslaved under the disguise of being converted to Christianity.
Encomienda System
This man was an American theologian and Congregational clergyman whose sermons stirred
the religious revival, called the Great Awakening. He is best known for his Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God sermon.
Jonathan Edwards
This man taught himself math,
history, science, English, and five other languages. He owned a successful printing and publishing
company in Philadelphia. He conducted studies of electricity, invented bifocal glasses, the lightning
rod, and the stove. He was an important diplomat and statesman and eventually signed the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
Benjamin Franklin
This event was an ill-fated bloody insurgency in New York City took place between landholders and merchants.
Leislers Rebellion
This group were pilgrims that started out in Holland in the 1620's who traveled over the Atlantic Ocean
on the Mayflower. As the purest, most extreme Pilgrims, they claimed to be too strong to be
discouraged by minor problems as others were.
Seperatists
This act was a legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland. Protestants
intruded on the Catholics in 1649 around Maryland. The act protected the Catholics from Protestant
rage of sharing the land. Maryland became the #1 colony to shelter Catholics in the New World.
Act of Toleration
This man immigrated to the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to led a religious experiment. He once said, "We shall be a city on a hill," highlighting the special nature of Massachusetts.
John Winthrop
This woman was a religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She challenged the principles of Massachusetts’ religious and political system and her ideas became known as the heresy of antinomianism, causing her to be banished form the colony.
Anne Hutchinson
This event was led by a young planter against people who were friendly to the Indians. In the process he torched Jamestown, Virginia and was murdered by Indians.
Bacon Rebellion
This group was worried by "Dutchification" of their children they left Holland on the Mayflower
in 1620; they landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
Pilgrims
These orders were made when colony settlers had an open meeting and they established a constitution that created the first constitution in the colonies which was the beginning for the other states' charters and constitutions.
Fundamental Orders
This man was a military leader at the English settlement known as Jamestown (1608) who helped save the Jamestown settlement from collapsing .He also basically was the founder. He was captured by natives during a hunting expedition and was saved by Pocahontas.
John Smith
This man was an english explorer for the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who sponsored the first
English colony in America on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina (1585) that failed and
became known as "The Lost Colony."
Sir Walter Raleigh
This event was a contract made by the voyagers on the Mayflower agreeing that they would form a simple government where majority ruled. Often considered the first step in self-government in the Northern colonies.
Mayflower Compact
This group were Spanish explorers that invaded Central and South America for its riches during the
1500s. In doing so, they conquered the Incas, Aztecs, and other Native Americans of the area.
Eventually, they intermarried with these tribes.
These laws restricted colonial trade, saying Americans couldn't trade with other countries. The colonies were only allowed to trade with England.
Navigation Act Laws
This man was an italian named Giovanni Caboto who explored the northeastern coast of North America for England in 1497.
John Cabot
This man was an italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish government to find a
passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World," when he landed on and
named the Caribbean island of San Salvador on October 12, 1492. He conducted three other
journeys prior to his death in 1503.
This event was a time where sixty members of the original four hundred colonists survived. The rest died of starvation because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the New World.
Starving Time
Yeoman
These companies were developed to gather the savings from the middle class to support finance colonies. Examples were the London Company and Plymouth Company. They’re the forerunner of modern day corporations.
Joint Stock Companies