Colonies and Founders
First permanent English settlement in North America in 1607
Jamestown
Virginia’s 1619 representative assembly, the first in English America
House of Burgesses
Reformers who wanted to “purify” the Church of England
Puritans
1692 religious chaos took place in this Massachusetts town
Salem MA
Cash crop that made Virginia profitable
Tobacco
William Penn founded this colony as a haven for Quakers
Pennsylvania
1620 agreement signed aboard a ship to create self-government
Mayflower Compact
1730s–40s revival led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
Great awakening
1676 Virginia uprising by frontier settlers against Governor Berkeley
Bacon's Rebellion
Land grant of 50 acres for each person who could pay for passage to new world
Headwright system
Lord Baltimore founded this colony as a refuge for English Catholics
Maryland
Acts requiring colonial goods to be shipped on ONLY British vessels
Navigation Acts
Age of Reason movement that influenced thinkers like John Locke
Enlightenment
1739 slave uprising in South Carolina
Stono Rebellion
Workers who traded years of labor for passage to America
Indentured servants
Founded in 1732 as a buffer colony against Spanish Florida and a home for debtors
Georgia
Britain’s loose enforcement of trade laws in the colonies
Salutary neglect
Banished from Massachusetts, he founded Rhode Island
Roger Williams
1675–76 war between New England colonists and Metacom’s forces
King Philip’s War
Trade network linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Triangular trade
Massachusetts Bay governor who described the colony as a “city upon a hill”
John Winthrop
What colonial law code, established in 1649, guaranteed religious freedom to Christians in Maryland?
Toleration Act
Calvinist belief that God chooses the saved in advance
Predestination/ antinomianism
1680 uprising that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico
Pueblo Revolt
Staple crop of the South Carolina low country, grown by skilled enslaved West Africans
Rice