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29226944Roanoke(1585-1587) Island off the coast of North Carolina; site of 1st abortive English colony
29226945Virginia Company (Joint Stock Company)Formed in 1606; purpose: to establish colonies all along the Atlantic coast of America
29226946John Winthrop(1588-1649) English colonist in America and 1st governor of Massachusetts; "City upon a hill"
29226947William Penn(1644-1718) English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania; famous for being nice to Native Americans and religiously tolerant
29226948Plymouthtown off the SE side of Massachusetts; settled by Pilgrims as the 1st permanent colonial settlement in New England
29226949Jamestownformer village near the mouth of the James River in Virginia; founded on May 14, 1607 by a group lead by Cpt. Christopher Newport
29226950John RolfeA leader of the Jamestown Colony and husband of Pocahontas
29226951Halfway Covenantdesigned to protect the position in the church of well-born children
29226952Iroquois Confederacy(a.k.a. League of 6 Nations) Consisted of 6 tribes the Mohawk, the Onondoga, the Oneida, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora
29226953Great Awakeningan extensive religious revival movement in the 1700s; bitter controversies between the Old Lights and the New Lights
29226954George Whitefield(1714-1770) Methodist evangelist; founder of Calvinistic Methodism
29226955Johnathon Edwards(1703-1758) American theologian whose sermons began the Great Awakening
29226956Navigation Acts(between 1660-1672) passed by the English Parliament to promote and protect English industry and commune against foreign trades
29226957James Oglethorpe(1696-1785) Founded colony of Georgia in 1732
29226958William Bradford(1590-1657) 2nd governor of Plymouth Colony
29226959Indentured Servanta person bound by contract to serve someone else for a given length of time as an apprentice to a master of and immigrant to service in a colony
29226960Mayflower CompactAn agreement written by the inhabitants of Plymouth that formed the basis for their government
29226961(Sir) George Calvert(1580?-1632) First Lord of Baltimore
29226962House of Burgessesthe lower house of the colonial legislature of Maryland, Virginia or W. Virginia
29226963Roger WilliamsUniversally admired minister who was exiled in 1635 and established Providence, Rhode Island
29226964Anne Hutchinson"Pious and respectable woman" who claimed to have received direct revelations; banished in 1638, built town or Narragansett
29308968Holy ExperimentWilliam Penn's hope that, in America, he or someone could provide a refuge for Quakers and other persecuted people and to build an ideal Christian commonwealth. "There may be room there, though not here" he wrote to a friend in America, "for such a _________."
29308969Mercantilismgovernmental control was exercised over industry and trade in accordance with the theory that national strength is increased by a preponderance of exports over imports
29308970Phyllis (Phillis) WheatleyFirst slave, first African and third woman to publish a book of poetry
29308971Triangular TradeThe Atlantic slave trade that became part of a prosperous trading cycle
29308972Middle Passagethe passage across the Atlantic from W. Africa to the W. Indies or American that was the route of the former slave trade
29446203Toleration Actdenoted groups who separated from the Church of England
29446204(John) Peter Zenger(1697-1746) American journalist/publisher born in Germany who was an apprentice to William Bradford
29446205Poor Richards Almanackcollection of practical and humorous information first published in 1732 by Benjamin Franklin under the pen name Richard Saunders
29446206Benjamin West(1738-1820) American painter who founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 in England
29446207John Singleton Copley(1738-1815) American painter who was elected as an associate at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1776
29446208Albany Planeach colony would send delegates to an American continental assembly, presided over by a British governor-general
29446209Thomas Hooker(1586?-1647) English Puritan clergyman who was a prominent figure in framing the Fundamental Orders
29727278Corporate ColoniesBritish colonies in the United States whose governments were trading-company charters or were modeled upon charters
29727279Headright Systemintroduced as a means to solve the labor shortage in the Virginia Company
29727280Salem Witch Trialstrials that occurred during the years 1692 and 1693 in the eastern counties of colonial Massachusetts in which people were accused of being witches
29727281Fundamental Orders, Conn.the laws provided for a self-governing colony whose inhabitants were to owe their allegiance to the colony rather than to England
29727282Restoration Coloniesone of a number of land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England in the latter half of the 17th century
29727283Edmund Andros(1637-1714), English governor of New York from 1674 to 1681; He also served as governor of Maryland in 1693-94 and of the island of Guernsey in 1704-6
29727284Salutary NeglectBritish did not strictly enforce commerce laws with the colonies
29727285"City Upon A Hill""....we must consider that we shall be as a ________, (and that) the eyes of all people are upon us.."~John Winthrop
29727286Proprietary Coloniespolitical power was held by a single individual or small group of individuals who had received a land grant from the king of England

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