Miscellaneous
What was the representative parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia, establishing a precedent for government in the English colonies?
House of Burgesses
What was the agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
What was the dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on the teachings of John Calvin?
Calvinism
Who founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What was the first formal statute governing the treatment of slaves, which provided for harsh punishments against offending slaves but lacked penalties for the mistreatment of slaves by masters?
Barbados Slave Code of 1661
Who were the frontier farmers who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement?
squatters
What war had a Series of assaults by Metacom, King Philip, on English settlements in New England?
King Philip's War
predestination
Who was the Wampanoag chief who led a brutal campaign against Puritan settlements in New England?
Metacom
What was passed in Maryland that guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those, like Jews and atheists, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ?
Act of Toleration (1649)
What was the relatively peaceful overthrow of the unpopular Catholic monarch, James II, replacing him with Dutch-born William III and Mary, daughter of James II.
Glorious Revolution
What was the armed conflict between royalists and parliamentarians, resulting in the victory of pro-Parliament forces and the execution of Charles I?
English Civil War
What is the intense religious experience that confirms an individual's place among the elect?
conversion
Who founded Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
What were the laws passed to regulate colonial shipping?
Navigation Laws
What was the migration of seventy thousand refugees from England to the North American colonies, primarily New England and the Caribbean?
Great English Migration
What war began with an Indian attack on Newbern, North Carolina?
Tuscarora War
Who are the English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds?
Puritans
Who founded Maryland?
Lord Baltimore
What were the laws to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality?
Blue Laws
What was the belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or man; most notably espoused in the colonies by Anne Hutchinson?
Antinomianism
What war had a series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River valley?
Pequot War
Who were the small group of Puritans who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England?
Separatists
Who was the Wampanoag chieftain who signed a peace treaty with Plymouth Bay settlers?
Massasoit
What was the unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade?
Salutary Neglect