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7480050473congregationalismChurch and town organization independent (no state control) and non-hierarchical; Citizenship = church membership (covenant); New England and Middle colonies; Puritans, Quakers, Baptists, etc.0
7480050474covenantAgreement between church members to form an independent church congregation; Membership was tied to citizenship.1
7480050475Richard HakluytEnglish writer who extravagantly exhorted his countrymen to undertake the colonization of the New World after defeat of the Spanish Armada.2
7480050476Sir Francis DrakeThe most famous of the "sea dogs" (English Privateers); Plundered his way all around the planet; Financially supported by Queen Elizabeth; Knighted by queen because defying Spanish protest.3
7480050477Destruction 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.4
7480050478CalvinismA major branch of Protestantism; The credo of many American foundational settlers including English Puritans, Scottish Presbyterians, French Hugenots, and Dutch Reformed Church in America5
7480050479Barbadoslocated in Caribbean; where the settlers in Carolina come from6
7480050480Joint Stock CompanyA commercial venture in which multiple shareholders invest and spread risk; e.g. Hudson's Bay Company, Virginia Company, Dutch West India Company7
7480050481Hudson's Bay Companyone of the Joint-stock companies founded in England for the purpose of trapping and fur trading.8
7480050482Navigation ActsA series of economic regulations set by England starting in 1651 in order to gain control over its' colonies; Inspired by merchantilist policies9
7480050483Queen 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.10
7480050484Sir 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.11
7480050485Roanoke 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.12
7480050486Virginia Company of LondonA joint-stock company that established the first enduring English colony in the New World at Jamestown.13
7480050487Plantation economylarge scale agriculture worked by slaves, especially sugar and tobacco plantation.14
7480050488Chesapeake BayLarge estuary between Maryland and Virginia; Site of both Jamestown and St. Marys.15
7480050489JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America; Founded in 1607 as a joint-venture of the Virginia Company.16
7480050490MarylandProprietary 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.17
7480050491Powhatan confederacyA group of native American tribes in 17th century that settled in Virginia and came into conflict with the Virginia colonists.18
7480050492Lord De La WarrGovernor of Jamestown; "he shall not work shall not eat"19
7480050493Anglo-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.20
7480050494"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.21
7480050495House 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.22
7480050496Maryland Acts of TolerationIn 1649, passed in Maryland, guaranteeing rights to Christians of all denominations; A measure to protect Maryland's Catholics.23
7480050497Headright SystemNew immigrants were enticed to come to the New World with the offer of 50 arces (1 arce= 4047m2)24
7480050498Bacon'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.25
7480050499Lord BaltimoreCatholic proprietor of the colony of Maryland; Permitted religious freedom to all Christian colonists in a mesure to protect Catholics.26
7480050500John RolfeVirginia "father of tobacco"; Husband of Pocahontas.27
7480050501Indentured 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.28
7480050502VirginiaThe first colony of the British Empire; Established during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I.29
7480050503QuebecFrench major colony in Canada.30
7480050504Jesuit"Society of Jesus"; Catholic missionaries.31
7480050505HuguenotsFrench Protestants32
7480050506Metis PeopleDescendant of French and indigenous people33
7480050507Fundamental 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.34
7480050508PilgrimsTraveler on a holy journey; Puritan separatists who first settled Plymouth in New England35
7480050509PuritansA group of English Reformed Protestants who sought to "purify" the Church of England36
7480050510ProtestantismThe "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.37
7480050511Town 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.38
7480050512Congregational churchProtestant churches practicing congregationalist church governance; The independence of each congregation in New England mirrored the independence of each town and its political organization.39
7480050513Royal charterA formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.40
7480050514CharterThe 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.41
7480050515Plymouth 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.jpg42
7480050516Roger 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.43
7480050517ProvidenceColony established by the puritan dissenter Roger Williams; Later merged with Portsmouth to form the colony of Rhode Island.44
7480050518Anne HutchinsonAn important participant in the Antinomian Controversy; banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and formed Portsmouth (later merged into Rhode Island).45
7480050519John 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.46
7480050520MayflowerThe ship that transported the first English Separatists—Pilgrims—in 1620.47
7480050521SeparatistPuritans who felt needed to separate from the Church of England.48
7480050522"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.49
7480050523Mayflower CompactThe first governing document of Plymouth Colony, written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists.50
7480050524Salem 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.51
7480050525slave codesSeries of laws in southern plantation colonies that established Africans as lifelong slaves and a cornerstone of the plantation economy.52
7480050526King 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.53
7480050527Middle ColoniesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; Dominated by Quakers.54
7480050528Supreme 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.55
7480050529JamaicaAn 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.56
7480050530South 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.57
7480050531"buffer colony"A colony established to serve primarily as a defensive boundary against a competing colonial power; California and Georgia, for example.58
7480050532North CarolinaA relatively poor and underdeveloped colony settled by landless squatters from Virginia59
7480050533"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.60
7480050534Philadelphia"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.61
7480050535mercantilismThe 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.62
7480050536New NetherlandDutch colony in Northern America; Established as a trading center; Later taken by the English and renamed New York.63
7480050537Gullah 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.64

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