Unit 1 test Flashcards
This is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
colonialism
These were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they declared independence in 1776 and together formed the United States of America.
the 13 colonies
these were a series of laws passed in 16th-century England that had the basic object of establishing some sort of religious orthodoxy within the Church of England.
acts of uniformity
These were a series of laws passed in 16th-century England that had the basic object of establishing the monarch of England as the head of the Church of England.
acts of supremacy
This is a term used to describe cruel and oppressive rule by a government or leader.
Tyranny
In government, this is the term used to describe a legislative body that represents the electorate. These positions can be filled by state appointment or through democratic means.
Parliament
This term refers collectively to two joint-stock companies chartered under James I on April 10, 1606 with the goal of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.
The virginia company
These were the English Puritan settlers who came to North America on the Mayflower and established a colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts
. Pilgrims
These were Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries.
English dissenters
This is the condition of permitting people to worship according to the practices of any religion they choose.
Religious toleration
This was the king of England in the 16th century that established himself as the head of the Church of England.
Henry the 8th
these were pacifist religious dissidents who allegedly feared only God, but not animals or men.
Quakers
This was the set of religious practices that determined how English people were required to worship.
Common book of prayer
This was the primary founding member of the Quaker colony in Pennsylvania.
William penn
These were white Europeans who paid for their voyage to the New World by signing labor contracts.
indentured servants
These were coerced laborers that did an increasingly large portion of the agricultural labor in the Thirteen Colonies—particularly in the American South.
West african slaves
These colonies/this region initially relied on agriculture but soon transitioned to fishing and commerce due to the colder climate.
New england
his was the policy of relative noninterference with colonial social, economic, and political life by the English and later British Crown from roughly 1607-1754.
Salutary (Begin) Neglect
This was one of the first colonial representative assemblies, located in the Colony of Virginia.
House of burgesses
John Winthrop
1st Governor of The Massachusetts Bay Colony and as a leading Puritan founder of New England. This was the primary founding member of the Puritan colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts/ Plymouth Colony
where the Pilgrims settled to live by gods wishes
who was John Smith
Captain John Smith was a soldier and writer who is best known for his role in establishing the Virginia colony at Jamestown, England’s first permanent colony in North America.
John Rolfe
John Rolfe is credited by Ralph Hamor, then Secretary of Virginia, with the experiment of planting the first tobacco seeds that he obtained from somewhere in the Caribbean, possibly from Trinidad.
Settlement of Jamestown
May 14, 1607, Jamestown was surrounded by water on three sides (it was not fully an island yet) and was far inland; both meant it was easily defensible against possible Spanish attacks.
