Chapter 1-2 (#21-39) Flashcards
Permanent and absolute tenure of property with freedoms to dispose of it at will
Freehold
The royal governor of Virginia
Sir William Berkeley
A series of raids and massacres in Indian’s villages against Governor Berkeley’s orders, led by Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion
The first agreement for self-government in 1620 in America
Mayflower Compact
Non-separatists who wished to adopt reforms to purify the Church of England
Puritans
Governor Winthrop’s vision for Massachusetts Bay colony as a model colony
“City upon a hill”
Companies made up of investors who bought the right to establish plantations from the king
Joint-stock companies
A church system set up by the puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in which each local church served as the center of its own community
Congregationalist
A purely democratic form of government common in the colonies (most prevalent in New England)
Town Meeting
Created the colony of Rhode Island in 1644
Roger Williams
The unauthorized puritan minister of a dissident church discussion group and lion settler, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Netherlands
Anne Hutchinson
Series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of Witchcraft
Salem Witch Trials
Owner of a colony (Ex: Lord Baltimore)
Proprietor
The Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people saved and some to be damned
Predestination
Developed by the puritans of New England from 1646 to 1675 in an effort to convert the local Native American tribes to Christianity
Praying Towns