Johns
Military leader at the English settlement known as Jamestown (1608) who helped save
the Jamestown settlement from collapsing.
He was captured by natives during a hunting expedition and was saved by Pocahontas.
John Smith
In 1661 a set of "laws" were made. It denied slaves basic fundamental rights, and gave their owners permission to treat them as they saw fit.
Slave codes
These people were worried by "Dutchification" of their children they left Holland on the Mayflower
in 1620; they landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
Pilgrims
In 1676, A man, 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.
What was this event.
Bacons Rebellion
what Act/Decree gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrants way.
Headright system
An Englishman who became a colonist in the early settlement of Virginia and married
Pocahontas.
He was also the savior of the Virginia colony by perfecting the tobacco industry in
North America.
He was killed in 1622, during one of many Indian attacks on the colony.
John Rolfe
In 1639 the Connecticut River colony settlers had an open meeting and they established a constitution called the What. (creating the first constitution in the colonies that was a beginning for the other states' charters and constitutions).
Fundemental Orders
These people who started out in Holland in the 1620's who traveled over the Atlantic Oceanon the Mayflower. As the purest, most extreme People, they claimed to be too strong to be discouraged by minor problems as others were.
Seperatists
1689-1691, an ill-fated bloody insurgency in New York City took place between landholders and merchants.
What was this Event.
Leisler’s Rebellion
An owner and cultivator of a small farm.
Yeoman
He immigrated to the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to led a religious experiment.
He once said, "We shall be a city on a hill,".
John Winthrop
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
In the early 1700's, These people were simply orthodox members of the clergy who believed that the new ways of revivals and emotional preaching were unnecessary. These other people were
the more modern-preaching members of the clergy who strongly believed in the Great Awakening
New and old lights
One of the first settlements in New England established in 1630 as major Puritan colony. It was a major trading center that later absorbed the Plymouth community
Massachusetts Bay Colony
what segment of the forced journey that slaves made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey
Middle Passage
An American theologian and Congregational clergyman whose sermons stirred the religious revival, called the Great Awakening.
He is best known for his Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God sermon.
Jonathan Edwards
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. Maryland became the #1 colony to shelter Catholics in the New World.
Act of Toleration
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
The winter of 1609 to 1610 was known as the "What" to the colonists of Virginia. Only sixty members of the original four hundred colonists survived.
Starving Times
Plantation systems where Indians were essentially enslaved under the disguise of being converted to Christianity.
Encomienda system
who was this newspaper printer,
who Using the power of the press, protested the royal governor in 1734-35. He was put on trial for this "act of treason."
HE won a case against the royal govoner
Setting new standards for freedom of the press.
John Peter Zenger
1620- A contract made by the voyagers on the a boat 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
Female religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She challenged the principles of Massachusetts’ religious and political system and her ideas became known as the heresy of antinomianism, causing her to be banished form the colony.
Anne Hutchinson
what was this event that was 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.
The Great Awakening
These were developed to gather the savings from the middle class to support finance colonies. Examples were the London Company and Plymouth Company. They’re the forerunner of modern day corporations
Joint Stock Compines