904580881 | Prince Henry | Portugal | |
904580882 | Columbus | Italy 1492 | |
904580883 | Amerigo Vespucci | "nuevo mundo" 1499 - 1501 voyage | |
904580884 | Pedro Cabral | finds S. America claims Brazil | |
904580885 | Samuel de Champlain | father of Canada | |
904580886 | Henry Hudson | (Netherlands) Hudson River | |
904580887 | King Henry VIII | left Roman Catholic Church launched English Protestant church | |
904580888 | Queen Elizabeth I | Protestant rivalry with Spain intensified when became queen disliked by Catholic Irish and Spain | |
904580889 | Sir Walter Raleigh | tobacco ****** CLARIFY | |
904580890 | Francis Duke | 1580 circumnavigated world returned with profit | |
904580891 | Spanish Armada | "invisible armada" defeated by England --> Spain declined end of spanish dominance --> ensured England's naval dominance in N. Atlantic | |
904580892 | enclosure movement | poor people land --> "enclosed" as private property of wealthy | |
904580893 | primogeniture | eldest son inherits estate | |
904580894 | contributing facts to colonization | unemployed farmers - no land overpopulation of England primogeniture - younger sons got no land joint stock company - financial means | |
904580895 | Virginia Company of London | got charter from King James I for settlement charter guaranteed same rights as if in England | |
904580896 | Jamestown | 1607 -problems: malaria, lac of supplies, can't drink swamp water, wasted time looking for gold instead of building, planting, fishing -saved by Captain John Smith's leadership - no work, no eat rule | |
904580897 | Captain John Smith | saved Jamestown implemented rule: no work, no eat | |
904580898 | "starving time" | Jamestown winter of 1609-10 settlers raided nearby Indians for food and supplies | |
904580899 | Lord De la Warr | Jamestown --> military regime settlers forced to stay declared war on Indians 1614 peace settlement - ended First Anglo-Powhatan War | |
904580900 | Second Anglo-Powhatan War | English victory, banished Indians | |
904580901 | John Rolfe | father of tobacco industry | |
904580902 | House of Burgesses | 1st representative assembly in America 1619 | |
904580903 | 1624 | charter was revoked Virginia --> royal colony under James I's control | |
904580904 | Maryland | -established by Lord Batlimore -refuge for fellow Catholics -Huge estates (catholic owners) surrounded by small farmers (protestant-resentful) -main crop: tobacco -white indentured servants | |
904580905 | Act of Toleration | 1649 Maryland protect religious rights of all Christians/Catholic minority - not Jews or atheists | |
904580906 | West Indies | tobacco = poor man's crop sugar = rich man's crop, main agriculture | |
904580907 | Barbados Slave Code | 1661 West Indies control/limit their rights | |
904580908 | Carolinas | major exports: slave Indians, RICE, indigo annihilated Savannah Indians trouble with Florida | |
904580909 | North Carolina | 1712 - separated from SC -Migrants from VA- poorer, own small farms, not religious -resisted authority, independent-minded -democratic, least aristocratic -crushed Tuscarora Indians | |
904580910 | South Carolina | defeated and dispersed Yamasee Indians | |
904580911 | Georgia | 1733 buffer colony- protect from Florida (Spain) and Louisiana (France) haven for debtors/prisoners no plantation economy restrictions on black slavery | |
904580912 | James Oglethorpe | Georgia prison reform repelled Spanish attacks | |
904580913 | Plantation Colonies | MD, VA, NC, SC,GA tobacco and rice slave labor few, large landholders strong aristocrat - not NC or GA sparse population dominant faith: church of England some religious tolerance | |
904580914 | Northern colonies | religious devotion | |
904580915 | Southern colonies | worldly wealth - tobacco | |
904580916 | Calvinism | -Martin Luther's ideas --> John Calvin (wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion) --> Calvinism (dominant theology) -predestined -more extreme than King Henry VIII (TOTAL purification) | |
904580917 | Separatists | Selective Calvinists and Puritans broke away (Separated) from Church of England fleed to Holland (1608) --> "Dutchification"-->America (VA)--> Mayflower 1620--> Plymouth Bay | |
904580918 | Fall 1621 | First Thanksgiving Day stable socially and economically | |
904580919 | William Bradford | governor (30 times) - Plymouth feared non-Puritan settlers' corruption | |
904580920 | 1629 | Charles I dismissed Parliament, persecuted Puritans | |
904580921 | Archbishop William Laud | highly orthodox, persecuted Puritans | |
904580922 | John Winthrop | Massachusetts first governor (for 19 yrs) feared democracy | |
904580923 | Massachusetts | prospered-trade, fish, lumber (shipbuilding) covenant w/ God- agreement to build holy society | |
904580924 | Congregational Church | "freemen" - adult male Puritans - anually elected gov and assistants women and unchurched men = voteless all colonists paid taxes for church right to hire/fire minister and set his salary clergymen - no formal political office | |
904580925 | doctrine of covenant | purpose of government enforce God's laws | |
904580926 | "sumptuary laws" | aka "blue laws" repressive no drinking, no kissing in public, etc | |
904580927 | Anne Hutchinson | claimed that holy life does not equal salvation and that the truly saved don't need to bother with obeying the laws of God or man - antinomianism (against law) 1638 - banished moved to NY then RI | |
904580928 | Roger Williams | minister with radical ideas 1635 - banished for "dangerous opinions" moved to RI built Baptist Church established COMPLETE freedom of religion no oaths, worship attendance, taxes for state church | |
904580929 | Rhode Island | "sewer" for the "lord's debris" where the unwanted resided | |
904580930 | Fundamental Orders | 1639 constitutional document democratic principles | |
904580931 | Pequot War | English VS Pequot tribe 1637 annihilated tribe | |
904580932 | King Philip's War | Wampanoag chieftain: Massaoit his son: Metacom ("King Philip" to english) - alliance with other tribes - assault on English villages 1675-76 Indians were defeated | |
904580933 | New England Confederation | 1643 MA (Bay Colony + Plymouth) and Connecticut (New Haven + scattered valley settlements) exclusively Puritan purpose: defend against foes (Indians French, Dutch) | |
904580934 | Effect of Colonial defiance (during Charles II) | King Charles II gave charter to Connecticut - legalized squatter settlements revoked MA's charter |
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