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The process of setting and controlling an already inhabited area
Condition of being contracted to work for a set period of time without pay
What is indentured servitude?
A group of Radical English Protestants in hopes of reforming the Church of England
Who are the Puritans?
A group of acts passed by Parliament in the 1650s and 1660s that prohibited smuggling, established guidelines for legal commerce, and set duties on trade items
A European cultural movement spanning the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, emphasizing rational and scientific thinking of traditional religion and superstition
What is the Englightenment?
An uprising of the Pueblo Indians in 1680 against Spanish forces
What is the Peublo Revolt?
This system rewarded indentured laborers and settlers with land
What is the headright system?
The first written constitution was adopted in North America. A written agreement created by Pilgrims upon their arrival?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A process during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through which status in the colonies became more closely linked to financial success and a refined lifestyle rather than birth and family pedigree
What is the consumer revolution?
A series of religious revivals in colonial America that began in 1720 and ended in 1750
What is the First Great Awakening?
A branch of Protestantism developed by John Calvin that influenced Protestants in France, England, and Switzerland
What is Calvinism?
An uprising in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Also known as King Phillip's War, this war was between English settlers and an alliance of Native Americans led by the Wampanoag tribe
What is Metacom's War?
A series of conflicts in the 1620s between the Powhatan Confederacy and English ssettlers in Virginia and Maryland
What are the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
A brutal transatlantic portion of the forced journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas. Millions of enslaved died on this route before arrival
What is the Middle Passage?
A group of allied American Indian nations that include the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Located primarily among the Great Lakes.
Who are the Iroquois?
The elected assembly within the General Assembly of Virginia formed in 1643, when the original assembly split in two. The other house was named the Council of State.
What is the House of Burgesses?
An immigrant who borrowed money from shipping agents to cover the cost of coming to America. The immigrant would work for the lender for a set number of years
What is a redemptioner?
A war from 1702 to 1713 over the control of Spain and its colonies
What is Queen Anne's War?
A 1739 uprising by enslaved Africans and African Americans in South Carolina, intensifying white fear of slave revolts
What is the Stono Rebellion?
A French Protestant who subscribes to the theology of John Calvin
What is a Huguenot?
An Act passed in 1649 in Maryland granted religious freedom to all Christians, including Catholics
What is the Act of Religious Toleration?
What is the Covenant Chain?
Which war was launched by the Tuscarora Indians from 1711 to 1715 against European settlers in North Carolina and their allies
What is the Tuscarora War?
This group was colonial religious leaders who called for religious revivals and emphasized the emotional aspects of spiritual commitment.
What is the New Light clergy?