unit 1 part 2 Flashcards
Virginia Company
The Virginia Company refers collectively to a joint stock company chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America
Powhatan
The Powhatan are a Native American people in Virginia. It may also refer to the leader of those tribes
John Smith
John Smith, Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely
Lord De La Warr
English-American politician, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called “Delaware”, were named.
John Rolfe
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 Virgini
Pocahontas
Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
Anglo- Powhatan wars
three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century.
headright system
referred to a grant of land, usually 50 acres, given to settlers in the 13 colonies. The system was used mainly in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland
indentured servants
a labor system where people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years
House of Bugesses
the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
Lord Baltimore
was the first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland
Barbados Slave Code
1661 was a law passed by the colonial English legislature to provide a legal base for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados.
Lords Proprietors
This charter issued by King Charles II of England proposed the formation of the Lords Proprietor and gave the lands of Carolina to the eight proprietors:
Fundamental constitutions of carolina
were adopted in March 1, 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida.
Charles Town
Charles Town, officially the City of Charles Town, is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and is also the county seat.
Tuscarora War
The Tuscarora War was fought in North Carolina during the autumn of 1711 until 11 February 1715 between the British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora Native Americans.
Yamassee War
The Yamasee War was a conflict between British settlers of colonial South Carolina and various Native American tribes
James Oglethorpe
a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.
Puritans
a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
Pilgrims (separatists)
a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, with the men commonly called Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith.
Mayflower Compact
the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by separatist Congregationalists who called themselves “Saints”
William Bradford
an English Separatist leader who grew up in Yorkshire, and later moved to Leiden, Holland, and helped found the Plymouth Colony. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact while aboard the Mayflower in 1620
MBC
an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century. The settlement was located in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston
John Winthrop
a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
city on a hill
admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be “as a city upon a hill”, watched by the world
visible saints
A religious belief developed by John Calvin held that a certain number of people were predestined to go to heaven by God.
New Haven
New Haven, in the U.S. state of Connecticut, is the principal municipality in Greater New Haven,
Anne Hutchinson
a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony
Antinomian controversy
was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony’s ministers and magistrates against some adherents of the free grace theology
Roger Williams
a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian and later a Reformed Baptist, who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state
Glorious Revolution
also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau
Iroquois confederacy
confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America.
covenant chain
a series of alliances and treaties developed during the seventeenth century, primarily between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British colonies of North America, with other Indian tribes added
Quakers
are members of a group of religious Christian movements which is known as the Religious Society of Friends in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of North America;
William Penn
William Penn 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
Middle Colonies
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Bacon’s Rebellion
was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
Middle Passage
was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
half-way covenant
is a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose.
salem witch trials
were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693
king williams war
It was the first of six colonial wars fought between New France and New England along with their respective Native allies
Pueblo Revolt
also known as Popé’s Rebellion — was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,
Middle ground
an area of compromise or possible agreement between two extreme positions, especially political ones.
Queen Anne’s war
was known in the British colonies, was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England,
King George’s War
is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars.
creoles
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry
John Peter Zenger
a German American printer and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal
Great Awakening
an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.
George Whitefield
was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies
Stono Rebellion
was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed.
The Atlantic World
history of the interactions among the peoples and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean rim from the beginning of the Age of Exploration to the early 21st century. The Atlantic slave trade continued into the 19th century, but the international trade was largely outlawed in 1807 by Britain.
navigation acts
a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later.
staple crops
Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world’s most popular food crops
fundamental orders of connecticut
The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers.
massasoit
was the sachem, or leader, of the Wampanoag, and “Massasoit” of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
Pequot War
was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies which occurred between 1634 and 1638
King Phillips war
the First Indian War, Metacom’s War, Metacomet’s War, or Metacom’s Rebellion, was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England
New England Confederation
commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven
Edmund Andros
English colonial administrator in North America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. Wikipedia
dominion of new england
was an administrative union of English colonies in the New England region of North America
