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| 1630316661 | Anne Hutchinson | Powerful religious figure in Boston. She also addressed the proper role for woman in the Puritan society. | 0 | |
| 1630316662 | Antinomianism | Greek word meaning "hostile to the law" it has been used as a debasing against Christian thinkers are people who put their belief and justification by faith | 1 | |
| 1630316663 | Bacon's Rebellion | Starting in 1676 as Indian started raiding plantations, this Virginian and other landholders started an unauthorized assault on the Indians and threaten to attack the capital of Virginia if help was not given. | 2 | |
| 1630316664 | Dominion of New England | King Charles II attempted to increase his power in Massachusetts by taking away its authority over New Hampshire When Kings James came to power he joined the government of Massachusetts with the rest of New England states and appointed a single Gov. Sir Edmund Andros to govern the region. | 3 | |
| 1630316665 | George Calvert | He had the vision to create a colony, to dabble in real estate but mainly as a retreat for the English Catholics who were being strongly abused by the Anglican religion. Sadly he died before receiving a charter from the king. | 4 | |
| 1630316666 | Cecilius Calvert | George Calvert was his father. He was to hold his province as an absolute Lord. He and his brother invested heavily in their American possessions and had to attract settlers to make profit. He encouraged the immigration of Protestants. | 5 | |
| 1630316667 | Glorious Revolution | James II fled England and William of Orange and Mary assumed the throne. It resulted in Mary, a Protestant, ruling England. | 6 | |
| 1630316668 | Headright | This system encouraged family migration, because there would be more landholding for the family. Also, any settler who paid for the passage of another immigrant to Virginia would receive an additional grant of land. | 7 | |
| 1630316669 | Jacob Leisler | He was the leader of New York dissidents. He resented his exclusion and challenge the colonial elite. He raised the militia and proclaimed himself head of governor in New York | 8 | |
| 1630316670 | James Oglethorpe | He and his man we're driven primarily by military and philanthropic motives. He wanted to create a barrier between the Spanish colonies in Florida and English America. He also wanted to create a refuge for poor men and women in England to come and live so that they didn't have to go to debtors prison. | 9 | |
| 1630316671 | John Smith | He helped Jamestown survive extinction. He imposed work and order on the community. He also organized raids on Indian villages to steal food. | 10 | |
| 1630316672 | John Winthrop | The governor in New England, Winthrop, strong leader, organized and led a large sailing expedition that involves 17 chips and 1000 people, including mostly family groups. With him Winthrop carried the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company. This charter allowed colonists to be responsible to only themselves, instead of the company back in England. | 11 | |
| 1630316673 | King Phillips War | War between the Wampanoags and English settlers. The Wampanoag Indians were convinced that only our assistance could save them from being overtaken by the English. The natives for three years terrorized Massachusetts towns, causing 1000 deaths, which weakened both society and at the economy of Massachusetts. The settlers fought back with help from the Mohawk Indians by destroying native food supplies and killing Metacomet. The Wampanoags population depleted and they were powerless from this time on to resist English. | 12 | |
| 1630316674 | Massachusetts Bay Company | Puritans created a new enterprise to take advantage of the economic opportunities in America. They obtained a grant of land for most of the area that is now Massachusetts and New Hampshire | 13 | |
| 1630316675 | Mayflower compact | A Document 41 mail Puritans signed when they arrived at Plymouth. It established a civil government and proclaimed their allegiance to the King. | 14 | |
| 1630316676 | Metacomet | Chieftain known as"King Philip" to the white settlers. He was chieftain over the Wampanoags during Kind Phillips war. Metacomet's policy was not to use violence, he felt that he must attack English to prevent more conflict and during the attack a group of mohawks shot and killed him. | 15 | |
| 1630316677 | Navigation acts | The English navigation acts were a series of laws that restrict the use of foreign shipping for trade between England. | 16 | |
| 1630316678 | Quakers | Settled Pennsylvania with the hope of finding a home for their own religion and their own distinctive social order. | 17 | |
| 1630316679 | Quitrent | A tax or land tax to imposed on freehold or leased land by higher land owning authority, usually a government or it assigns. | 18 | |
| 1630316680 | Roger Williams | He called for a complete separation of church and state. Escaping from the theocracy of Massachusetts with many followers, he then founded the province of Rhode Island. | 19 | |
| 1630316681 | Sir William Berkeley | Governor of Virginia. Berkeley settled many border disputes with Indians after defeating an Indian uprising by promising that the white immigrants would not settle past a certain line in exchange for large piece of land. William continued to take more and more power to himself until he was essentially the autocrat of Virginia by the 1660's | 20 | |
| 1630316682 | Theocracy | Having little or no distinction between church and government. | 21 | |
| 1630316683 | House of burgesses | Delegates from Virginia's communities met to discuss local problems in the colonial. | 22 | |
| 1630316684 | William Bradford | A Puritan, William Bradford was a historian of his own endeavors and those of his people William Bradford let the members of the nonmembers of the Puritan church in the Mayflower to colonize America. | 23 | |
| 1630316685 | William Penn | Proprietor of the Pennsylvania colony. He dealt generously with the Indians who came to respect him. You supervise the construction of the colonies, the making rectangular road systems that would eventually become the normal. | 24 |
