Johns
Newspaper printer in 18th century
John Peter Zenger
Pilgrim that lived in the northern colony called Plymouth. He was chosen governor 30 times. Well known for "Of Plymouth Plantation."
William Bradford
American theologian, congregational clergyman, best known for his sinners in the hands of an angry god sermon
Jonathan Edwards
Set of beliefs established in the 1500’s by John Calvin that the Puritans followed. It preached virtues of simple worship, strict morals, pre-destination and hard work.
Calvinism
the first representative assembly in the New
World. The London Company authorized the settlers to select and summon this assembly. It was the
first of many miniature parliaments to sprout form the soil of America the beginnings of self-rule in
America.
House of Burgesses
Immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630s to become the first governor
John Winthrop
English Quaker; started the "Holy Experiment" of Pennsylvania; persecuted because he was a Quaker.
William Penn
An English explorer for the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina (1585) that failed and became known as "The Lost Colony."
Sir Walter Raleigh
Primary idea behind Calvinism; states that salvation or damnation are foreordained and unalterable; first put forth by John Calvin in 1531; was the core belief of the Puritans who settled New England in the seventeenth century.
Predestination
A legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland. Protestants intruded on the Catholics in 1649 around Maryland. The act protected the Catholics from Protestant rage of sharing the land.
Act of Toleration
Italian named Giovanni Caboto who explored the northeastern coast of North America
for England in 1497
John Cabot
He was a British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-52. He showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676
William Berkeley
Female religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638.
They were a group of religious reformists who wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church. Their ideas started with John Calvin in the 16th century and they first began to leave England in 1608.
Puritans
In the 1660's England restricted colonial trade, saying Americans couldn't trade with other countries. The colonies were only allowed to trade with England.
Navigation Acts (Laws)
Englishman who became a colonist in the early settlement of Virginia, Married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
1689-1691, an ill-fated bloody insurgency in New York City took place between landholders and merchants.
Leislers Rebellion
taught himself math, history, science, English, and five other languages. He owned a successful printing and publishing company in Philadelphia. He conducted studies of electricity, invented bifocal glasses, the lightning rod, and the stove.
Benjamin Franklin
Pilgrims that started out in Holland in the 1620's who traveled over the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower. As the purest, most extreme Pilgrims, they claimed to be too strong to be discouraged by minor problems as others were.
Separatists
In 1639 the Connecticut River colony settlers had an open meeting and they established a constitution called the Fundamental Orders
Fundamental Orders
Military leader at the English settlement Jamestown, captured by natives
John Smith
In 1676, a young planter led a rebellion against people who were friendly to the Indians. In the process he torched Jamestown, Virginia and was murdered by Indians.
Bacon's Rebellion
became known in 1738 during the 1st Great Awakening as a great preacher who had recently been an alehouse attendant. Everyone in the colonies loved to hear him preach of love and forgiveness because he had a passionate style of preaching.
George Whitefield
a religious revival occurring in the 1730's and 1740's
to motivate the souls of colonial America. Motivational speakers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield helped to bring Americans together.
Great Awakening
1620- A contract made by the voyagers on the Mayflower agreeing that they would form a simple government where majority ruled. Often considered the first step in self-government in the Northern colonies.
Mayflower Compact