Colonial Government and Laws
Representative parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia, establishing a precedent for government in the English colonies.
What is House of Burgesses?
Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on the teachings of John Calvin.
What is Calvinism?
Established by non-separating Puritans, it soon grew to be the largest and most influential of the New England colonies.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Began with an Indian attack on Newbern, North Carolina.
What is Tuscarora War?
Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping.
What are Navigation Laws?
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.
What is Barbados Slave Code of 1661?
Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned.
What is predestination?
Migration of seventy thousand refugees from England to the North American colonies, primarily New England and the Caribbean.
What is Great English Migration?
Defeated by the south Carolinians in the war of 1715-1716.
What is Yamasee Indians?
Armed conflict between royalists and parliamentarians, resulting in the victory of pro-Parliament forces and the execution of Carles I.
What is English Civil War?
Passed in Maryland, it guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those, like Jews and atheists, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ.
What is Act of Toleration?
Intense religious experience that confirmed an individual's place among the "elect", or the "visible saints."
What is conversion?
Belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or man; most notably espoused in the colonies by Anne Hutchinson.
What is Antinomianism?
Frontier farmers who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement.
What are squatters?
Administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all of New England, New York, and East and West Jersey.
What is Dominion of New England?
Drafted by settlers in the Connecticut River Valley, document was the first "modern constitution" establishing a democratically controlled government.
What is Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds.
What are Puritans?
Series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River Valley.
What is Pequot War?
In politics, a territory between two antagonistic powers, intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them.
What is buffer?
Relatively peaceful overthrow of the unpopular Catholic monarch, James II, replacing him with Dutch-born William III and Mary, daughter of James II.
What is Glorious Revolution?
Agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth.
What is Mayflower Compact?
Small group of Puritans who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England.
What are Seperatists?
Series of assaults by Metacom, King Philip, on English settlements in New England.
What is King Philip's War?
Weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut led by Puritans for the purposes of defense and organization, an early attempt at self-government during the benign neglect of the English Civil War.
What is New England Confederation?
Unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of Navigation Laws.
What is salutary neglect?