29226944 | Roanoke | (1585-1587) Island off the coast of North Carolina; site of 1st abortive English colony | |
29226945 | Virginia Company (Joint Stock Company) | Formed in 1606; purpose: to establish colonies all along the Atlantic coast of America | |
29226946 | John Winthrop | (1588-1649) English colonist in America and 1st governor of Massachusetts; "City upon a hill" | |
29226947 | William Penn | (1644-1718) English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania; famous for being nice to Native Americans and religiously tolerant | |
29226948 | Plymouth | town off the SE side of Massachusetts; settled by Pilgrims as the 1st permanent colonial settlement in New England | |
29226949 | Jamestown | former village near the mouth of the James River in Virginia; founded on May 14, 1607 by a group lead by Cpt. Christopher Newport | |
29226950 | John Rolfe | A leader of the Jamestown Colony and husband of Pocahontas | |
29226951 | Halfway Covenant | designed to protect the position in the church of well-born children | |
29226952 | Iroquois 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 | |
29226953 | Great Awakening | an extensive religious revival movement in the 1700s; bitter controversies between the Old Lights and the New Lights | |
29226954 | George Whitefield | (1714-1770) Methodist evangelist; founder of Calvinistic Methodism | |
29226955 | Johnathon Edwards | (1703-1758) American theologian whose sermons began the Great Awakening | |
29226956 | Navigation Acts | (between 1660-1672) passed by the English Parliament to promote and protect English industry and commune against foreign trades | |
29226957 | James Oglethorpe | (1696-1785) Founded colony of Georgia in 1732 | |
29226958 | William Bradford | (1590-1657) 2nd governor of Plymouth Colony | |
29226959 | Indentured Servant | a 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 | |
29226960 | Mayflower Compact | An agreement written by the inhabitants of Plymouth that formed the basis for their government | |
29226961 | (Sir) George Calvert | (1580?-1632) First Lord of Baltimore | |
29226962 | House of Burgesses | the lower house of the colonial legislature of Maryland, Virginia or W. Virginia | |
29226963 | Roger Williams | Universally admired minister who was exiled in 1635 and established Providence, Rhode Island | |
29226964 | Anne Hutchinson | "Pious and respectable woman" who claimed to have received direct revelations; banished in 1638, built town or Narragansett | |
29308968 | Holy Experiment | William 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 _________." | |
29308969 | Mercantilism | governmental control was exercised over industry and trade in accordance with the theory that national strength is increased by a preponderance of exports over imports | |
29308970 | Phyllis (Phillis) Wheatley | First slave, first African and third woman to publish a book of poetry | |
29308971 | Triangular Trade | The Atlantic slave trade that became part of a prosperous trading cycle | |
29308972 | Middle Passage | the passage across the Atlantic from W. Africa to the W. Indies or American that was the route of the former slave trade | |
29446203 | Toleration Act | denoted 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 | |
29446205 | Poor Richards Almanack | collection of practical and humorous information first published in 1732 by Benjamin Franklin under the pen name Richard Saunders | |
29446206 | Benjamin West | (1738-1820) American painter who founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 in England | |
29446207 | John Singleton Copley | (1738-1815) American painter who was elected as an associate at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1776 | |
29446208 | Albany Plan | each colony would send delegates to an American continental assembly, presided over by a British governor-general | |
29446209 | Thomas Hooker | (1586?-1647) English Puritan clergyman who was a prominent figure in framing the Fundamental Orders | |
29727278 | Corporate Colonies | British colonies in the United States whose governments were trading-company charters or were modeled upon charters | |
29727279 | Headright System | introduced as a means to solve the labor shortage in the Virginia Company | |
29727280 | Salem Witch Trials | trials that occurred during the years 1692 and 1693 in the eastern counties of colonial Massachusetts in which people were accused of being witches | |
29727281 | Fundamental Orders, Conn. | the laws provided for a self-governing colony whose inhabitants were to owe their allegiance to the colony rather than to England | |
29727282 | Restoration Colonies | one of a number of land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England in the latter half of the 17th century | |
29727283 | Edmund 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 | |
29727284 | Salutary Neglect | British 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 | |
29727286 | Proprietary Colonies | political power was held by a single individual or small group of individuals who had received a land grant from the king of England |
AP U.S. History IDs 1587-1750s
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