Influential People
Advocated for the separation of church and state; founded Rhode Island
Who is Roger Williams?
A series of religious revivals throughout the colonies
What is the first Great Awakening?
A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
What is the Act of Toleration?
The idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities
What is Antinomianism?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
What is Jamestown?
Englishman and Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
The first representative assembly in America
What is the VA House of Burgesses?
Allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members and have political rights
What is the Halfway Covenant?
Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
Who were Quakers?
2nd permanent colony; founded by the Separatist Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower
What is the Plymouth colony?
Newspaper printer charged with seditious libel
Who is John Peter Zenger?
Plan to put the North American colonies under a united central government
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
These were used to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world
What are the Navigation Acts?
Economic system aimed at self-reliance and strengthening the national economy by accumulating bullion, gaining colonies, and establishing a favorable balance of trade
What is Mercantilism?
Town in Massachusetts; held witch trials
What is Salem?
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
Who is Captain John Smith?
Attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against William Berkeley and his friendly policies toward Indians
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
An agreement for self-government among the pilgrims
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A hands-off policy of England towards its American colonies
What is salutary neglect?
Colony in Massachusetts started by the Puritans. Leader was John Winthrop
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Religious dissenter convicted of the heresy of antinomianism
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
War fought between the French and British to decide which country had power in the new North American colonies
What is the French and Indian War?
A system to encourage immigration by granting large tracts of land to new settlers in the colonies
What is the Headright System?
Left England for religious freedom and set up Mass Bay Colony; wanted to "purify" or fix the King's Church
Puritans
What John Winthrop said that their Puritan model societies based on Christian principles should be (better than everyone else's societies.)
"City on a Hill"