Key Events
In 1559, Knox returned to Scotland to lead this movement.
What is the Scottish Reformation?
The Puritans sought to change five aspects of this church.
What is the Anglican Church?
$200: This event marked the beginning of the Thirty Years War in 1618.
Answer: What is the Defenestration of Prague?
This French explorer is known as the Father of New France.
Answer: Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This was England's first long-term colony in the New World.
Answer: What is Jamestown?
A _____ seeks to change beliefs, while a _________ seeks to overthrow a government or leader.
reformation, revolt
This treaty in 1560 allowed Scotland’s Parliament to make its own decisions.
What is the Treaty of Edinburgh?
The reasons Pilgrims sought to leave Leiden for New England
To maintain their culture and avoid losing their children to Dutch society, fear the impact of the Dutch Revolt, and the face ongoing poverty.
His army made the Thirty Years War one of the most miserable of all time. They would terrorize defenseless villagers and take every scrap of food and fuel they saved. If they dared resist they could burn everything or kill the villagers.
Wallenstein
He played a crucial role in forming the Iroquois Confederacy.
Answer: Who is Hiawatha?
This conflict occurred between 1610-1614, initiated by Chief Powhatan.
Answer: What is the First Anglo-Powhatan War?
The chief that provided safety for the Pilgrims by relieving them
Chief Massasoit
This council established by the Duke of Alba is also known as the Council of Blood.
What is the Council of Trouble?
Pilgrims sought new land outside England for three reasons; name one.
What are religious freedom, economic opportunities, or fear of persecution?
Count Tilly’s army infiltrated Magdeburg. They went door to door and threatened to kill the entire house unless people paid them rich bribes. Soldier after soldier came and eventually people ran out of money and the whole house was killed. Then the entire city was torched. 20,000-25,000 people were killed that day
The Sack of Magdeburg -
This book published in 1563 documents the stories of Christians martyred for their faith.
Answer: What is Foxe’s Book of Martyrs?
During this period, colonists resorted to eating pets and even the dead to survive.
What is the Starving Time?
The Plague that caused the natives to be inundated with a wave of epidemics brought by the settlers. These diseases were probably smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, etc., and killed 75-95% of New England natives.
The Great Plague of the 1610’s
The Act of Abjuration declared independence from this king.
Who is King Philip II?
This document allowed settlers to form their own government in New England.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This left the Holy Roman Empire more united than before the war and Emperor Ferdinand II more powerful than before the war started.
The Peace of Prague (1635)
This priest was executed for his criticisms of the Catholic Church before Luther.
Answer: Who is Jan Hus?
The first elected legislature in the New World among Europeans was called this.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Champlain helped the Huron win _______ (1609) against the Iroquois. He killed 2 of 3 Mohawk chiefs with a single shot; his soldiers fired too, the Mohawk fled, and the battle was over.
The Battle of Ticonderoga
This alliance was formed in 1586 between King James VI of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth.
What is the Treaty of Berwick?
This required:
All English citizens to attend church services regularly or face imprisonment.
Avoid gatherings that met to teach Puritan ideas and criticize the church.
Observe Holy Communion without complaint or criticism.
The Act Against Puritans
The Thirty Years War was primarily fought between these two religious groups.
Answer: What are Catholics and Protestants?
Wanted to try and establish a permanent colony in the New World in 1606
King James
It was where he ordered a new Bible translation, later known as the King James Bible.
1604 Hampton Court Conference
The Massacre of 1622
On the same day Queen Elizabeth passed away (March 24, 1603) King James VI of Scotland ascended Englands throne as King James I.
Union of the Crowns
English settlers wanting to purify the Anglican Church and had strict religious beliefs
The Puritans
Protestant king whose death occurred during the Swedish Phase of the war
Gustav II of Sweden
An English explorer looking for a northern water route to connect Europe to the Far East.
Henry Hudson
Thanksgiving became a national holiday in 1863 (in the middle of a civil war). _______ asked Americans to set it aside as a day of Thanksgiving to God and prayer for all the orphans, widows, and mourners created by the Civil War.
Abraham Lincon
The First Anglo-Powhatan War (1610-14)