The Final 150 Part 1 Flashcards
Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?
To acquire new land and spread Christianity
Virginia Company
The joint stock company that established James town
Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso writes that Jamestown “is where the British Empire began.”
John Smith
Born in 1579 or 1580 in Lincolnshire, England, John Smith eventually made his way to America to help govern the British colony of Jamestown. After allegedly being saved from death by Pocahontas, he established trading agreements with native tribes.
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Native American notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
John Rolfe
John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband
Tobacco
Tobacco was the biggest crop for America back when England first came over
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley
Plymouth Colony
A colony where the pilgrims lived when they came over
Pilgrims
a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
Mayflower
The Mayflower was the ship that transported the first English Separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
William Bradford
William Bradford was an English Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire, who later moved to Leiden in Holland, and then in 1620 migrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower.
Squanto and Samoset
The first Indian to greet the Pilgrims, Samoset fostered goodwill and trade with the Europeans. He introduced the white men to Squanto, an emissary of the great Wampanoag chief, Massasoit, who facilitated the long-term peace between the Pilgrims and Massasoit.
Puritans
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century in and around the broad opening of Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost predecessor colony.
John Winthrop
John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England, following Plymouth Colony.
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams weren’t the only Puritans ostracized for their radical beliefs. Mary Dyer was a friend of Anne Hutchinson and stood by Anne when she was banished from the colony. Mary and her family moved to Rhode Island and years later Mary became a Quaker.
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693
William Penn
William Penn was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Quakers
The religious event is sometimes called a Quaker meeting for worship or sometimes called a Friends church service. This religious tradition arose among Friends in the United States, in the 19th century, and in response to the many converts to Christian Quakerism during the national spiritual revival of the time.
Pacifists
a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.
James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony
By this time any ideas of Georgia’s being a haven for debtors in English prisons had long … James Oglethorpe defended the new colony of Georgia militarily, holding the titles of general and James …
The first great awakening
The first wave of religion (Christianity) that was in America
Triangular Trade
Trade that was a triangle in shape which gave the US a lot of slaves
Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
Join or die cartoon was about him telling America that if we don’t come together as one, then we will die
John Peter Zenger Trial
It organizes opposition and can help revolutionary ideas spread. The trial of John Peter Zenger, a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who printed a publication called The New York Weekly Journal.
Cause of French and Indian War
The colonists called it the French and Indian War, and it permanently shifted the global balance of power. By the mid-18th century, both the British and French wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory.
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain’s acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
