People
America got its name from this Italian explorer and mapmaker.
Amerigo Vespucci
The first permanent English colony in North America.
Jamestown
One whose passage was paid by an established colonist. In return, the servant worked for his benefactor without pay for an agreed upon period of time, usually four to seven years.
indentured-servant
English king responsible for the split from the Catholic church kick starting the English Reformation.
Henry VIII
A set of laws passed by colonial and state governments in the Americas that defined the status of enslaved people as property and heavily restricted their basic rights and freedoms.
slave codes
Viking adventurer from Scandinavia, landed in America around AD 1000,
Leif Erikson
The infamous "Lost Colony"
Roanoke Colony
A business owned by multiple investors who hold shares of stock proportional to their investment and was the new means for effective English civilization.
joint-stock company
German-American printer and journalist in New York City whose 1735 trial and acquittal for libel helped establish the foundation for freedom of the press in America.
John Peter Zenger
Three forms of colonial government:
royal, proprietary, and self-governing
English scholar and priest, was the first person to translate the New Testament directly into English from the original Greek.
William Tyndale
Colonies most suited to industrial development because she had extensive fishing grounds, fine harbors, and many waterfalls to serve as power sources.
New England (or Northern) Colonies
Land- grant policy introduced by the Virginia Company in 1618 to solve severe labor and population shortages in colonial Jamestown; settlers received about 50 acres of land for every person whose ocean passage to the colony they paid for.
head-right sytem
First English child to be born in an American English colony. She was born to members of the Roanoke Colony.
Virginia Dare
The first and most widely used reading textbook in the American colonies, heavily infused with Puritan religious values.
New England Primer
Henry VIII’s son that pushed the church toward a much stricter Protestant belief system and banned Latin mass and replaced with services spoken in English.
Edward VI
A major 17th-century English settlement in New England, founded in 1630 by a group of Puritans seeking to create a model Christian society.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
an economic system where governments strictly regulate trade and the economy to build national power and wealth, mainly by exporting more goods than they import
mercantilism
Group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to purify the Church of England from remaining Roman Catholic traditions.
Puritans
A law that guaranteed freedom of conscience to all Trinitarian Christians in the colony of Maryland
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
English explorer and soldier who helped establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
John Smith
The first slaves to Jamestown (1619) came from this modern day African country.
Angola
A historic colonial law passed in Massachusetts (1647) that required towns to establish and maintain public schools.
Ole'Deluder Satan Act
Wealthy English planter in colonial Virginia who is best known for leading a rebellion in 1676, which was the first popular revolt against British rule in the American colonies.
Nathaniel Bacon
Exact signing date of the Mayflower Compact...
November 11, 1620