People
Colonies
New England Terms
Middle Terms
Southern Terms
100
German who denounced the authority of the priests and popes. In 1517 nailed his 95 thesis against Catholic doctrine to the door of Wittenburg's cathedral
Who is Martin Luther?
100
What is pictured below?
What is Virginia?
100
People who had seen their conversion and lived lives of holy behavior
What are Visible Saints?
100
Big feudal estates granted to promoters who would settle 50 people on them
What are Patroonships?
100
Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops
What are Plantations?
200
Elected thirty times as the Pilgrim governor.
Who is William Bradford?
200
4 colonies banded together- all Puritan- step toward American unity
What is the New England Confederation?
200
A group of extremely devout Puritans who were angered that they, the "visible saints" were forced to share pews with the damned in England
What are Separatists?
200
English explorer- employed by the Dutch to explore the New World
Who is Henry Hudson
200
a system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought as sold like property.
What is Chattel Slavery?
300
disliked by wretched bachelors for friendly relations with Indians
Who is William Berkeley?
300
Plymouth merged with this colony in 1691.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
300
The oldest college in America, which reflected Puritan commitment to an educated ministry.
What is Harvard?
300
Moniker given to the Middle Colonies due to their large production of grain.
What are the Bread Colonies?
300
The dues of a master to his indentured servant after the servant's period of indentured servitude.
What are Freedom Dues?
400
Led a 1676 rebellion of frontiersmen (wretched bachelors) against Berkeley's friendly relations with Indians
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
400
This colony implemented slave codes from Barbados early in its history.
What is South Carolina?
400
Couldn't be saved by good actions, so the truly saved need not obey the laws of God or man
What is Antinomianism?
400
Companies controlled by the Dutch to explore
What are the Dutch East and West India Companies?
400
Passage paid for laborers=right to acquire 50 acres of land.
What is the Headright System?
500
1681 secured land, now known as Pennsylvania from Charles II.
Who is William Penn?
500
This colony was originally part of Massachusetts Bay Colony but became a colony itself after a royal intervention.
What is New Hampshire?
500
Allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church
What is Half-Way Covenant?
500
Official name for the Quakers
What is Religious Society of Friends?
500
Ignited resentments of landless former servants and pitted the frontiersmen against the gentry of the plantations; caused gentry to seek out African slaves
What is Bacon's Rebellion