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| 14882340046 | Walter Raleigh | Founder of England's first American colony. (Roanoke, it failed) |  | 0 |
| 14882340047 | Elizabeth I | English Queen during golden age. Reestablished Protestantism as the state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada. |  | 1 |
| 14882340048 | Treaty of Tordesillas | a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. |  | 2 |
| 14882340049 | Pocahontas | a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown. Marriage to John Rolfe = first interracial union in america= Peace settlement ending the Anglo-Powhatan War |  | 3 |
| 14882340050 | John Rolfe | He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. |  | 4 |
| 14882340051 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 1588 by Elizabeth 1 of England, English naval supremacy. |  | 5 |
| 14882340052 | John Smith | Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. |  | 6 |
| 14882340053 | Jamestown | Founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London.Elected Captain John Smith as their leader. |  | 7 |
| 14882340054 | Thomas Dale | Made governor of Jamestown after John Smith, stern, didn't believe in laziness, created daily schedule |  | 8 |
| 14882340055 | John Calvin | INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: emphasized predestination and he rejected the medieval Church. He believed that the church and state should be united under the Calvinist faith. |  | 9 |
| 14882340056 | John Winthrop | Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a "city upon a hill" (covenant theology) |  | 10 |
| 14882340057 | Peter Stuyvesant | The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (Netherlands), hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664. |  | 11 |
| 14882340058 | Anne Hutchinson | A religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her ideas became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law. She was later expelled, with her family and followers, and went and settled at Rhode Island, killed by Indians. |  | 12 |
| 14882340059 | King Phillips War | Started over land ownership disagreements. The War Between the Puritans and the Pequot, Narragansett,Wampanog, and Nipmunk Indians. armed indians in raiding NE towns, Eng & allies won, survivors fled N, increase Indian hate |  | 13 |
| 14882340060 | Roger Williams | He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs. |  | 14 |
| 14882340061 | Dominion of New England | 1686-The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros) Charters and self rule were revoked, and the king enforced mercantile laws. The new setup also made for more efficient administration of English Navigation Laws, as well as a better defense system. |  | 15 |
| 14882340062 | New England Confederation | New England colonists (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth) formed this in 1643 as a defense against local Native American tribes and encroaching Dutch. The colonists formed the alliance without the English crown's authorization. |  | 16 |
| 14882340064 | William Penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) |  | 17 |
| 14882340066 | Glorious Revolution 1688 | Bloodless overthrow of King James II. Established William and Mary as the new leaders. |  | 18 |
| 14882340067 | Great Puritan Migration | Many Puritans migrated from England to North America during the 1620s to the 1640s due to belief that the Church of England was beyond reform. In 1630 group of Puritans led by John Winthrop founded MA Bay Colony. |  | 19 |
| 14882340069 | Bacon's Rebellion | Indentured servants in Virginia revolt against gov and landowners (origionally over lack of protection from Indians on frontier). burn Jamestown. look to African slaves as less troublesome source of labor. |  | 20 |
| 14882340070 | Middle passage | the Atlantic crossing (middle portion of the triangular trade) that brought African slaves to the Americas |  | 21 |
| 14882340071 | Salem Witch Trials | Several accusations of witchcraft led to sensational trials in Salem, Massachusetts at which Cotton Mather presided as the chief judge. 18 people were hanged as witches. Terrible mistake, shows social tensions, decline of Puritanism. |  | 22 |
| 14882340072 | half way covenant | response to decline of Puritanism. The Puritan practice where by parents who had been baptized but had not yet experienced conversion could bring their children before the church and have them baptized. Weakened distinction between "elect" and others; dramatizied the difficulty of maintaining religious devotion |  | 23 |
| 14882340073 | headright system | Parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. |  | 24 |
| 14882340074 | Leisler's rebellion | uprising in late 17th century colonial New York, in which militia seized control of lower New York from 1689 to 1691. The uprising, which occurred in the midst of Britain's "Glorious Revolution," reflected colonial resentment against the policies of King James II. Royal authority was restored in 1691 by British troops sent by James' successor, William III. |  | 25 |
| 14882340075 | Triangular Trade | Illegal trade created to generate money to buy English goods.The backbone of New England's economy during the colonial period. Ships from New England sailed first to Africa, exchanging New England rum for slaves. The slaves were shipped from Africa to the Caribbean (this was known as the Middle Passage, when many slaves died on the ships). In the Caribbean, the slaves were traded for sugar and molasses. Then the ships returned to New England, where the molasses were used to make rum. |  | 26 |
| 14882340076 | First Great Awakening | 1st grassroots American social movement. Series of revivals making church more emotional. Old lights (against) new lights (for). Results: democratic, new denominations (Methodist and Baptists), more choice, colleges, old clergy loses prestige |  | 27 |
| 14882340077 | George Whitefield | Most influential New Light speaker during first Great Awakening |  | 28 |
| 14882340078 | Jonathan Edwards | New Light preacher who started the first Great Awakening |  | 29 |
| 14882340079 | John Peter Zenger | "Zenger case", Newspaperman thrown in jail for accusing his colony's governor of wrongdoing, Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found innocent. |  | 30 |
| 14882340081 | Phyllis Wheatley | 1st important African American writer. Abolitionists later point to her as proof that they are intellectually equal. |  | 31 |
| 14882340082 | William Pitt | The Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies, and this is why England won the war. |  | 32 |
| 14882340083 | Treaty of Paris 1763 | Ended the French and Indian (7yrs) war. Britain dominated, French kicked out of N America |  | 33 |
| 14882340089 | Mercantilism | economic theory, colonies exist for benefit of mother country, collect gold and silver, buy more goods that you sell |  | 34 |
| 14882340104 | Navigation Acts | Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries. |  | 35 |
| 14882340113 | Ben Franklin | A delegate from Pennsylvania and proposed the "Albany Plan of the Union" as a way to strengthen colonies. Sent to france to get alliance (LOVED by people there), negotiated Treaty of Paris, part of Constitutional Convention, etc. |  | 36 |
