Important Figures
Colonial Governor who imposed harsh military rule over Jamestown after taking over in 1610
Lord De La Warr
Series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River Valley.
Pequot War
religious group known for their tolerance, emphasis on peace, and idealistic Indian policy
Quakers
agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth, signed aboard the Mayflower. Created a foundation for self-government in the colony.
Mayflower Compact
Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on the teachings of John Calvin.
Calvinism
English Colonist whose marriage to Pocahontas sealed the peace of the first Anglo Powhatan War
John Rolfe
Series of assaults by Metacom, King Philip, on english settlements in New England.
King Phillip's war
English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds.
Puritans
Laws designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality.
Blue Laws
Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned.
German friar who touched off the Protestant Reformation when he nailed a list of grievances against the Catholic Church to the door of Wittenberg's cathedral in 1517
Martin Luther
Weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut led by Puritans for the purposes of defense and organization
New England Confederation
Small group of Puritans who sought to break away from the Church of England
Seperatists
series of laws to regulate colonial shipping
Navigation Laws
intense religious experience that confirmed an individuals place among the elect or visible saints
conversion
French Protestant reformer who argued that humans were inherently weak and wicked
John Calvin
Administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all of New England, New York, and East and West Jersey. Placed under the rule of Sir Edmund Adros.
Dominion of New England
Frontier farmers who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement.
squatter
passed in Maryland, it guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those like Jews and atheists who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ
Act of Toleration
Antinomianism
Salem minister who advocated a complete break form the Church of England and criticized the MA Bay Colony for unlawfully taking land from the Indians
Roger Williams
Peaceful overthrow of the unpopular catholic monarch James 11.
Glorious Revolution
Defeated by the south Carolinans in the war of 1715 to 16.
Yamasee Indians
First formal statute governing the treatment of slaves, which provided for harsh punishments against offending slaves but lacked penalties for the mistreatment of slaves by masters
Barbados Slave Code of 1661
territory between 2 antagonistic powers
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