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10991185355congregationalismChurch and town organization independent (no state control) and non-hierarchical; Citizenship = church membership (covenant); New England and Middle colonies; Puritans, Quakers, Baptists, etc.0
10991185356Destruction 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.1
10991185357CalvinismA major branch of Protestantism; The credo of many American foundational settlers including English Puritans, Scottish Presbyterians, French Hugenots, and Dutch Reformed Church in America2
10991185358Barbadoslocated in Caribbean; where the settlers in Carolina come from3
10991185359Joint Stock CompanyA commercial venture in which multiple shareholders invest and spread risk; e.g. Hudson's Bay Company, Virginia Company, Dutch West India Company4
10991185360Navigation ActsA series of economic regulations set by England starting in 1651 in order to gain control over its' colonies; Inspired by merchantilist policies5
10991185361Queen 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.6
10991185362Sir 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.7
10991185363Roanoke 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.8
10991185364Virginia Company of LondonA joint-stock company that established the first enduring English colony in the New World at Jamestown.9
10991185365Plantation economylarge scale agriculture worked by slaves, especially sugar and tobacco plantation.10
10991185366Chesapeake BayLarge estuary between Maryland and Virginia; Site of both Jamestown and St. Marys.11
10991185367JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America; Founded in 1607 as a joint-venture of the Virginia Company.12
10991185368MarylandProprietary 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.13
10991185369Powhatan confederacyA group of native American tribes in 17th century that settled in Virginia and came into conflict with the Virginia colonists.14
10991185370Anglo-Powhatan Wars1614-1644; Series of wars between English Virginia Company settlers and local Indian tribes; "Irish tactics" used; Settled by Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe; Led to the banishment of Chesapeake Indians and English encroachment of land.15
10991185371"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.16
10991185372House 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.17
10991185373Maryland Acts of TolerationIn 1649, passed in Maryland, guaranteeing rights to Christians of all denominations; A measure to protect Maryland's Catholics.18
10991185374Headright SystemNew immigrants were enticed to come to the New World with the offer of 50 arces (1 arce= 4047m2)19
10991185375Bacon'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.20
10991185376Lord BaltimoreCatholic proprietor of the colony of Maryland; Permitted religious freedom to all Christian colonists in a mesure to protect Catholics.21
10991185377John RolfeVirginia "father of tobacco"; Husband of Pocahontas.22
10991185378Indentured 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.23
10991185379VirginiaThe first colony of the British Empire; Established during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I.24
10991185380QuebecFrench major colony in Canada.25
10991185381Jesuit"Society of Jesus"; Catholic missionaries.26
10991185382HuguenotsFrench Protestants27
10991185383Fundamental Orders of ConnecticutFirst written constitution in the New World (and all of Western Tradition); established townhall style of government similar to much of Puritan New England.28
10991185384PilgrimsTraveler on a holy journey; Puritan separatists who first settled Plymouth in New England29
10991185385PuritansA group of English Reformed Protestants who sought to "purify" the Church of England30
10991185386ProtestantismThe "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
10991185387Town 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
10991185388Congregational 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
10991185389Royal charterA formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.34
10991185390CharterThe 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
10991185391Plymouth 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
10991185392Roger 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
10991185393ProvidenceColony established by the puritan dissenter Roger Williams; Later merged with Portsmouth to form the colony of Rhode Island.38
10991185394Anne HutchinsonAn important participant in the Antinomian Controversy; banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and formed Portsmouth (later merged into Rhode Island).39
10991185395John 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
10991185396MayflowerThe ship that transported the first English Separatists—Pilgrims—in 1620.41
10991185397SeparatistPuritans who felt needed to separate from the Church of England.42
10991185398"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
10991185399Mayflower CompactThe first governing document of Plymouth Colony, written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists.44
10991185400Salem 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
10991185401slave codesSeries of laws in southern plantation colonies that established Africans as lifelong slaves and a cornerstone of the plantation economy.46
10991185402King 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
10991185403Middle ColoniesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; Dominated by Quakers.48
10991185404JamaicaAn island in Caribbean sea. Visited by Columbus in 1494 and Colonized by Spanish who enslaved or killed the Natives. Became a major sugar colony of the British Empire in the 17th century.49
10991185405South 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
10991185406"buffer colony"A colony established to serve primarily as a defensive boundary against a competing colonial power; California and Georgia, for example.51
10991185407North CarolinaA relatively poor and underdeveloped colony settled by landless squatters from Virginia52
10991185408"holy experiment"William Penn's term for the ideal government that would uphold religious freedom and attract virtuous settlers; Largely a Quaker ideal; Its failure was apparent after Penn's death when settlers came into conflict with natives and Quakers lost political power for advocating nonviolence in the face of Indian and competing colonial power threat.53
10991185409Philadelphia"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.54
10991185410mercantilismThe 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.55
10991185411New NetherlandDutch colony in Northern America; Established as a trading center; Later taken by the English and renamed New York.56
10991185412Gullah cultureBlack people off the coast of South Carolina; Speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and grammar; Their isolation is an example of how many Africans held onto their traditional culture despite enslavement and Christianization.57

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