Chapter 2
The daughter of Powhatan who saved John Smith
Who is Pocahontas?
The colony where persecuted religious groups would reside
What is Rhode Island?
The Salem Witch Trials
What were the trials that resulted in 21 People dying?
The trade process that had 3 legs and involved England, Africa, and America
What is Triangular Trade?
War where a several tribes of Indians combined to form a large military alliance.
What is King Phillip’s War?
The main cash crop of Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
Preached Calvinism which emphasized Predestination
Who is John Calvin?
The colonies in the Chesapeake Bay.
What is Virginia and Maryland?
2 men who played the biggest roles in the Great Awakening
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
Tradition where the 1st born son inherits all of the Father’s land.
What is Primogeniture?
Land founded by Lord Baltimore, as a refuge for persecuted Catholics.
What is Maryland?
The Dutch colony run by a trading company
What is New Amsterdam?
The building in the center of town
Where was the Church Located?
The most honored profession in the colonial times.
What is the Clergy (Priests)?
System that granted aristocrats the right to purchase 50 Acres of land, for cheap, if they sponsored an indentured servant’s passage to America.
Squatters
What are newcomers to Carolina who had no land?
What the puritans feared for their children
What is Dutchification?
Africans had knowledge of rice and immunity to disease.
Why did Africans work in rice fields?
Disease introduced in 1721 that afflicted 1 of 5 persons (including George Washington)
What is Smallpox?
Stated all people could come and participate in the church, even if they were only half converted.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
Had fertile soil and broad expansive land.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The idea that stated those who were saved didn’t need to obey the law of either God or Man
What is Antinomianism?
Preached frightening sermons to encourage people to recommit to the lord
What are jeremiads?
The New York Newspaper Printer who accused the governor of graft?
Who was John Peter Zenger
Sermon that describes a man dangling a spider over a fire.
What is “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?