Religious dissidents who fled England in the 1620s and 30s and founded the colonies of Mass. Bay and Plymouth
PURITANS
Rebellion of settlers in Virginia 1676. Started after the royal governor questioned motivations for warring against the Native Americans on the frontier
Bacon's Rebellion
John Locke's Natural Rights include
Life, Liberty, Property
Got banished from Mass Bay colony in 1636 for his belief in separation of church and state. Eventually founded RI colony
Roger Williams
cash crop that made a profit and saved Jamestown
Tobacco
He is credited with bringing Tobacco to the Colony of Jamestown
John Rolfe
Which group of non-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers except (Germany, Scots, Irish, Russians, Dutch)
Russians
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Preacher
Johnathan Edwards
Helped establish a settlement at Portsmouth RI, after being banished from Mass Bay Colony in 1637 for violating Puritan laws forbidding women to preach. (Later Dies in New York)
Anne Hutchinson
Movement after a Civil War in England in 1630's drove some 15,000 more settlers to Mass Bay Colony known as......
Great Migration
Colonists from which European nation generally had the most cooperative relations with American Indians?
France
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, was founded by
A joint stock company
Which colony revolved around clustered villages with farmlands around them?
New England
The 3 Ms of MMMercantilism
Money, Markets, Materials
This Enlightenment Philosopher developed the idea of the Separation of Powers
Baron De Montesqieu
A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay area were (....stayed not by choice)
indentured servants
During the Colonial period, Quakers were known for
Religious Toleration
Which act guaranteed that the British government would have a financial share of all colonial exports
Navigation Acts
This Act Guaranteed toleration of all Christians in Maryland. First document of religious freedom in America.
Act of Toleration
Renewed interest in religion, marked by the popularity of charismatic traveling preachers
The Great Awakening
Separatists who sailed to New England on the Mayflower to escape religious persecutions in England
Pilgrims
18th century economic theory that encouraged European powers to establish colonies to supply raw materials and markets for European goods.
Mercantilism
Agreement signed by Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620; set up a basic system of government for the new colony
Mayflower Compact
Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682; colony was a haven for Quakers and other persecuted religions
William Penn
1st elected legislature assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619; representatives set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legislative acts
House of Burgesses