Important People
This person accused of antinomian teachings and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded Portmouth.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Passed in Maryland, it guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed death to Jews and atheists, and those who denied the divinity of Jesus
What is the Religious Act of Toleration?
Rowdy protest against the British East India Company's newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade. Colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor, prompting harsh sanctions from the British Parliament.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds. Some of the most devout Puritans believed that only "visible saints" should be admitted to church membership.
Who are the Puritans?
A war between the bonded French and Native Americans and the colonies for expansion, taking place in 1754 to 1763, spreading to Europe in 1756 and becoming the 7 Years War, resulting in the victory of Europe and the gain of French Canada for the British
What was the French and Indian War?
Founded Maryland in 1634 to be a haven for Catholics away from Protestant England's persecution of Roman Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore?
Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping; the acts provided that only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports and that all goods destined for the colonies must first pass through England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
A clash between Bostonian protestors and locally stationed British redcoats, who fired on the jeering crowd, killing or wounding eleven, one of whom being Crispus Attucks. OC
What is the Boston Massacre?
Catholic missionaries who wanted to reform the Church.
Who were the Jesuits?
During the 1630's around seventy thousand refugees left England for the New World
What was the Great Migration?
A reverend who led a group of Boston Puritans to the Hartford area. Though, his last name does not entail his job.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
To help pay British troops after the 7 Years War, a tax on all legal documents and newspapers, had resistance in the colonies and was eventually repealed.
What is the Stamp Act?
Religious revival that swept the colonies. Participating ministers, most notably Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, placed an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality. A Second Great Awakening arose in the nineteenth century.
What is the Great Awakening?
Missionaries to the Americans
Who were the Franciscans?
An agreement to form a government and to submit to the will of the majority count depending on agreed upon regulations, signed by leaders of Pilgrims.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Credited for founding Quebec City. Was an explorer, map-maker, writer, and first governor of New France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
A British act placed on the colonists forbidding them from issuing paper money as legal tender, repealed in 1773 as an attempt to ease tensions between the British and colonies.
What is the Currency Act?
Series trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Puritans who split from the Church of England
Who were the Separatists?
Early slave revolt in South Carolina where 50+ slaves gathered arms to rise up against their masters and march to Spanish Florida. They were ultimately found and killed. :(
What was the Stono Revolution?
Spouse of Pocahontas. Father of the tobacco industry and economic saviour of the Virginia Colony.
Who is John Rolfe?
1766 British law stating that parliament and an absolute right to tax the colonies and to make laws that would be enacted in the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Second in a series of conflicts between the European powers for control of North America, fought between the English and French colonists in the North, and the English and Spanish in Florida.
What is Queen Anne's War?
French Protestant dissenters granted limited toleration under the Edict of Nantes. After King Louis XIV outlawed Protestantism in 1685, many fled elsewhere, including to British North America.
Who were the Huguenots?
War fought largely between French trappers, British settlers, and their respective Indian allies
What was King William's War?