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The elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Nonconformists were allowed their own places of worship and their own schoolteachers, so long as they accepted certain oaths of allegiance. This law eventually applied to Roman Catholics.
A law passed by the colonial English legislature to provide a legal basis for slavery in this Caribbean island.
What is Barbados? (Barbados slave code)
A series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It ended with the execution of a king.
What is the English Civil War?
The last of the thirteen original American colonies, serving a dual role of protector and shelter.
What is Georgia?
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was a promising step towards self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.
What is predestination?
A law that declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England and that the North American colonies could only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The "Bloodless Revolution," it involved the overthrow of the Catholic King James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange
What is the Glorious Revolution?
Initially a company chartered colony, this place was successful from the start and attracted many families.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
It was the first rebellion in the North American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices.
Who are the Puritans?
An unofficial British policy to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.
What is salutary neglect?
He hoped to resettle Britain's worthy poor in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
The least diverse region of the original 13 colonies.
What is the New England region?
A form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
This group sought to break away from the Church of England. They were lead by William Bradford for several decades.
Who are the Pilgrims (Separatists)?
A policy of granting to anyone who would pay for the transportation costs of an indentured laborer approximately 50 acres.
What is the Headright System?
Replacing his executed father, he was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
Who is Charles II?
Men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.
What are indentured servants?
From 1692 - 1693, more than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging, including one dog.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
What is the Congregational Church?
The best advertised of all the colonies, this was founded as a haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
An English general and statesman who led the Parliament of England's armies against King Charles I during the English Civil War and ruled the British Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
Known as the Bread Basket colonies, this region was significantly diverse.
What are the Middle colonies?