Ch 2 Key terms Flashcards
Antimonianism
- teachings of Anne Hutchinson
- claimed that all ministers in Massachusetts were not among the elect
Bacon’s Rebellion
- Back country gentry militarily revolts against colonial government
- British soldiers defend established government
- leads to competition between East and West Landowners and shows potential instability in big population of free, landless men
Dominion of new England
- combined the government of Massachusetts with the governments of the rest of the new England colonies 1686
- Sir Edmund Andros was appointed the single governor; extremely rigid enforcement of navigation acts leads to his unpopularity
George and Cecilius Calvert
- Established Maryland
- at first wanted religious toleration, eventually dominated by Protestants
Jacob Leisler
New York extremist who briefly took over bc he resented colonial elite
James Oglethorpe
- founded Georgia
- parliament and military hero
- goal: create refuge for honest debtors and create military barrier vs Spanish south
- a lot of strict rules to maintain stability, ends up being counterproductive
John Smith
-imposed work and order on Jamestown
-organized raids on neighboring Indian villages to steal food
1608
John Winthrop
-lead the migration to New England with Massachusetts Bay Company charter
King Philip’s War
- Wampanoags vs English(Massachusetts) & Mohawks
- English win, Wampanoags severely weakened
- for a while, natives actually do well with raids and guns
- most prolonged and deadly encounter between whites and natives in 1600s
- CAUSE natives didn’t want English to love into their land and impose English law on them
Massachusetts Bay Company
Charter saying that colonists are responsible to themselves only, not a company official in England
Mayflower Compact
- pilgrims on Plymouth Rock don’t have a legal basis for staying there
- established civil government and proclaimed their allegiance to the king
Metacomet
- aka “King Philip”
- Wampanoag chieftain rose up to resist English to prevent them moving into native land and imposing English law
- begin King Philip’s War
Middle Grounds
Areas on the western borders of English colonies in which Europeans and Indians carved out ways of living together, with each side making concessions to the other.
Navigation Acts
- Colonies can only export to Britain
- Any countries sending goods to the colonies must pass through ships through Britain first
- Imposed duties on the coastal trade among the English colonies an provided for the appointment of custom officials for enforcement
Pequot War
- Pequot Indians vs English settlers in Connecticut Valley
- CAUSE: competition over trade with the Dutch in new Netherland & friction over land
- Pequot tribe almost wiped out
