12/22 Flashcards
people on a journey for religious freedom
Pilgrim
the mistreatment or punishment of certain popel because of their beliefs
Persecution
a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony 41 men signed this before they left the ship
Mayflower Compact
people who wanted to purify the Anglican Church
Puritan
an elected assembly of 130 freemen who could vote run my John Winthrop
General court
recognition that other people have the right to different religious opinions
Religious toleration
a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters.
Town meeting
the man who founded Providence, Rhode Island in 1636 and was banished from Massachusetts by Governor Winthrop.
Roger Williams
the woman who settled in Portsmith, Rhode Island and was banished from Massachusetts by Governor Winthrop for heresy.
Anne Hutchinson
when you go against your religion
Heresy
the man who left Massachusetts and founded Hartford, Connecticut and set up the “Fundamental orders of Government” or the “Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.”
Thomas Hooker
a document that gave all land owning males the right to vote (even not church members) and limited the Government’s power.
Fundamental Orders of Gov’t
a man who left massachusetts and founded New Hampshire
John Wheelwright
colony in which the owner or proprietor owned the land and controlled the government.
Proprietary colony
a colony that was controlled directly by the King.
Royal colony
the Society of Friends and was founded by george fox. They believed that everyone was equal in God’s eyes even women and were protestant reformers and quaked with fear of the lord.
Quaker
numbers of German-speaking protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Dutch
a crop sold for money at market
Cash crop
a document that provided religious toleration to all Christians in 1649 Sir George Calvert
Act of Toleration
a plant used to make blue dye that grew in south carolina
Indigo
a person who owes money
Debtor
laws for slaves which denied them their rights
Slave code
the belief that one race is superior to another.
Racism
(Lord Baltimore) the man who was granted a charter by King Charlers I to set up a proprietary colony which he called Maryland where catholic’s could worship freely.
Sir George Calvert
The man who founded Georgia and took debtors to from England to settle in Georgia.
James Oglethorpe
a rich area of good land from farming in the Southern Colonies.
Tidewater region
west of tidewater at the base of the appalachian mountains with thick forests where Scotland, Germany, and Ireland settled.
Back country
the boss of the slaves
Overseer
upper class in society in colonial society
Gentry
the class made up of small business owners, independent farmers, artisans.
Middle class
a 1730 and 1740 religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards.
Great Awakening
a person who learns a trade or craft from a master.
Apprentice
schools where women opened their home to teach children.
Dame school
growth of scientific knowledge in 1600s in Europe that spread to the colonies in the 1700s.
Enlightenment
the act of publishing a false statement that may unjustly damage a person’s reputation
Libel
an african American poet who wrote “The 10th Muse” and Lately Sprung Up in America.
Anne Bradstreet
an enslaved African American woman who was a poet who lived in Boston and wrote “To a Lady on the Death of her Husband’.”
Phyllis Wheatley
A man from England who wrote the “Two Treatises on Civil Government” and believed that everyone was entitled to “Life, Liberty, and Property.”
Locke
a french man who wrote “The Spirit of the Laws” and came up with the idea that a government should be separated into powers, with separate branches: Legislative, Executive, Judicial.
Montesquieu
a man who was put on trial for Libel because he printed a story that criticized the Governor of New York in 1734.
Zenger
and economic theory that a nation’s Power depends on it’s wealth or amount or gold.
Mercantilism
goods sent out of a country
Export
goods brought into a country
Import
a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies proposed by King Charles.
Navigation Acts
a nickname for New England merchants and traders
Yankee
the colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies
Triangular trade
a group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws.
Legislative
in 1688, the movement that over threw King James II and brought his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens
Glorious Revolution
a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.
Bill of Rights
a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
English Bill of Rights
Where parliament makes the important decisions and the royalty are merely figureheads New England became this after the Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
he led the great awakening
Jonathan Edwards
