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| 212473394 | 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 latter expelled, with her family and followers, and went and settled at Pocasset ( now Portsmouth, R.I.) | |
| 212473395 | John winthrop | As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world. | |
| 212473396 | Quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania | |
| 212473397 | antinomianism | the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) | |
| 212473398 | james oglethrope | A colonist that got a charter from King George II and wanted that colony a new place where deptors will have a new freash start. The colony's name is Georgia. He outlawed slavery, no plantations but small farms, and limited the size of granted land. | |
| 212473399 | john smith | Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter | |
| 212473400 | bacon's rebellion | an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year. The uprising was a protest against the governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. | |
| 212473401 | Mayflower compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. | |
| 212473402 | navigation acts | Series of laws passed by England on its colonies that basically restricted colonies from buying imports from anywhere else but England. Based heavily on the theory of Mercantilism. Writs of assistance (search warrants) were issued in the 13 colonies as a means of enforcing the Navigation Acts. Became another primary reason for the outbreak of the American Revolution. | |
| 212473403 | 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. | |
| 212473404 | theocracy | government run by religious leaders | |
| 212473405 | virginia house of burgesses | 1619, first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia. Served as an early model of elected government in the New World. | |
| 212473406 | william bradford | A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks. |
