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8031925566congregationalismChurch and town organization independent (no state control) and non-hierarchical; Citizenship = church membership (covenant); New England and Middle colonies; Puritans, Quakers, Baptists, etc.0
8031925567covenantAgreement between church members to form an independent church congregation; Membership was tied to citizenship.1
8031925570Destruction of the Spanish Armada16th century England vs. Spain naval war; Marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire and opened the path for the British Empire to flourish.2
8031925571CalvinismA major branch of Protestantism; The credo of many American foundational settlers including English Puritans, Scottish Presbyterians, French Hugenots, and Dutch Reformed Church in America3
8031925572Barbadoslocated in Caribbean; where the settlers in Carolina come from4
8031925573Joint Stock CompanyA commercial venture in which multiple shareholders invest and spread risk; e.g. Hudson's Bay Company, Virginia Company, Dutch West India Company5
8031925574Hudson's Bay Companyone of the Joint-stock companies founded in England for the purpose of trapping and fur trading.6
8031925575Navigation ActsA series of economic regulations set by England starting in 1651 in order to gain control over its' colonies; Inspired by merchantilist policies7
8031925576Queen ElizabethA.K.A. Virginia, the "virgin" queen; An ambitious ruler, she secured the Protestant Reformtation in England and reigned during the destruction of the Spanish Armada, Drake's circumnavigation, the English Renaissance (Shakespeare!), and the beginning of the British Empire.8
8031925577Sir Walter RaleighA dashing courtier favored by Queen Elizabeth; Launched the first English colony in the New World in 1585 on Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia (present day North Carolina); The colony was a failure due to England's preoccupation with war with Spain.9
8031925578Roanoke colonyLocated in present day North Carolina; Known as "The Lost colony" established by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585, disappeared during the first Anglo-Spanish War.10
8031925579Virginia Company of LondonA joint-stock company that established the first enduring English colony in the New World at Jamestown.11
8031925580Plantation economylarge scale agriculture worked by slaves, especially sugar and tobacco plantation.12
8031925581Chesapeake BayLarge estuary between Maryland and Virginia; Site of both Jamestown and St. Marys.13
8031925582JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America; Founded in 1607 as a joint-venture of the Virginia Company.14
8031925583MarylandProprietary colony established on the Chesapeake Bay; George Calvert and Lord Baltimore were its proprietors; Established as a Catholic haven in the largely Protestant British Americas.15
8031925584Powhatan confederacyA group of native American tribes in 17th century that settled in Virginia and came into conflict with the Virginia colonists.16
8031925587"starving time"Jamestown winter of 1609 to 1610; Only 60 of the 400 colonists survived because they didn't found plants or the methods to grow crops; Most colonists were gentlemen "adventurers" who refused to work or didn't know how to grow crops.17
8031925588House of BurgessesThe first representative legislative body formed in 1619 in Virginia; Evolved into a "planter oligarchy" that represented the wealthy plantation owners, and a competitor to the Parliament in London.18
8031925589Maryland Acts of TolerationIn 1649, passed in Maryland, guaranteeing rights to Christians of all denominations; A measure to protect Maryland's Catholics.19
8031925590Headright SystemNew immigrants were enticed to come to the New World with the offer of 50 arces (1 arce= 4047m2)20
8031925591Bacon's Rebellion1676 rebellion of discontent landless servants in Virginia; Exposed the weakness of the indentured servant system to the ruling planter oligarchy, who thereafter relied more and more on African slaves.21
8031925592Lord BaltimoreCatholic proprietor of the colony of Maryland; Permitted religious freedom to all Christian colonists in a mesure to protect Catholics.22
8031925593John RolfeVirginia "father of tobacco"; Husband of Pocahontas.23
8031925594Indentured servantPotential England immigrants sign a contact with wealthy Virginians to work for a certain years in the New World in exchange of the passage over the Atlantic.24
8031925595VirginiaThe first colony of the British Empire; Established during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I.25
8031925596QuebecFrench major colony in Canada.26
8031925597Jesuit"Society of Jesus"; Catholic missionaries.27
8031925598HuguenotsFrench Protestants28
8031925601PilgrimsTraveler on a holy journey; Puritan separatists who first settled Plymouth in New England29
8031925602PuritansA group of English Reformed Protestants who sought to "purify" the Church of England30
8031925603ProtestantismThe "reformed" Christian faith that emerged from Martin Luther's 16th century protests against the corruption and control of the Catholic Church; A major religious and political force in the English colonies of the New World.31
8031925604Town hall meetingA form of direct democratic rule, used principally in New England where most or all the members of a community come together to participate in direct democratic government.32
8031925605Congregational churchProtestant churches practicing congregationalist church governance; The independence of each congregation in New England mirrored the independence of each town and its political organization.33
8031925606Royal charterA formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.34
8031925607CharterThe grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified; 3 types: Royal, Commercial, Proprietary.35
8031925608Plymouth colonyFounded by a group of Separatists who came to be known as the Pilgrims; the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region,https://o.quizlet.com/YWD0OaZqPqntAaSERr.dQA_m.jpg36
8031925609Roger WilliamsA Puritan, an early proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state; he was expelled from the colony of Massachusetts and began the colony of Providence Plantation.37
8031925610ProvidenceColony established by the puritan dissenter Roger Williams; Later merged with Portsmouth to form the colony of Rhode Island.38
8031925611Anne HutchinsonAn important participant in the Antinomian Controversy; banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and formed Portsmouth (later merged into Rhode Island).39
8031925612John WinthropOne of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; his vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development.40
8031925613MayflowerThe ship that transported the first English Separatists—Pilgrims—in 1620.41
8031925614SeparatistPuritans who felt needed to separate from the Church of England.42
8031925615"city upon a hill"In the 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity" preached by Puritan John Winthrop. Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be "as a city upon a hill", the ideal community, watched by the world.43
8031925616Mayflower CompactThe first governing document of Plymouth Colony, written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists.44
8031925617Salem Witch TrialsA series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693; Religious fear that resulted from unrest in the colonies.45
8031925618slave codesSeries of laws in southern plantation colonies that established Africans as lifelong slaves and a cornerstone of the plantation economy.46
8031925619King Philip's WarAKA Metacom's War; Savage conflict between New England colonists and local Indian tribes; Both sides resorted to brutal massacre tactics; Defeat of Indians resulted in white land expansion.47
8031925620Middle ColoniesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; Dominated by Quakers.48
8031925621Supreme gonverner of Anglican ChurchThe Supreme Governor of the Church of England is a title held by the British monarch that signifies titular leadership over the Church of England; Since the English Reformation under the Tudors, the monarch has been the head of the church; One of the major problems Puritans, Quakers, and other groups had with the Anglican church.49
8031925623South CarolinaPlantation colony established by the eight nobles (lords proprietor) after the restoration of King Charles II; Mostly rural plantations, but has primary settlement at Charles Town.50
8031925627Philadelphia"The city of brotherly love" established by William Penn; It was by far the largest and most important city in the English colonies on the eve of the Revolution.51
8031925628mercantilismThe driving economic philosophy of the colonial powers in the 17th and 18th centuries; Colonial competition was a zero-sum game; Trade imbalances (more imports than exports) were evil; Colonies served the mother country and were not allowed to compete economically.52

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