Native Americans and conflicts
Legendary Founder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Hiawatha
Daughter of Chief Powhatan
Pocahontas
English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England
Puritans
Agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Frontier farmers who illegally occupied land owned by others
Squatters
Defeated by the South Carolinans in the war of 1715-1716
Yamasee Indians
English colonist who married Pocahontas in 1614
John Rolfe
Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans
Calvinism
Group of puritans that sought to break away from the Church of England
Separatists
Territory between two antagonistic powers
Buffer
Began with an Indian attack on newbern North Carolina
Tuscarora war
Colonial governor who imposed harsh military rule over Jamestown.
Lord de la warr
Intense religious experience that confirmed an individual’s place among the elect
Conversion
Established by non separating puritans
Massachusetts bay colony
Granted toleration to all Christian’s
Act of Toleration
Series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians
Pequot war
House of Burgesses
Doctrine that God foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned
Predestination
Weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut led by puritans
New England confederation
Statute governing the treatment of slaves
Barbados slave code of 1661
Series of assaults by metacom/king Philip on English settlements
King Philip’s war
Migration of 70 thousand refugees from England to the North American colonies
Great English migration
Belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or man
Antinomianism
Drafted by settlers in the Connecticut river valley
Armed conflict between royalists and parliamentarians
English civil war