A | B |
Evangelism | Great Awakening Spiritualism emphasizing emotional delivery of the Gospels |
Indentured servitude | Free passage to new world for 7 years of labor |
Joint-stock company | Group of investors who buy the right to make a colony |
Mercantilism | Economic theory, establish favorable balance of trade, mother country controls species |
Middle Passage | Shipment of slave to new world as part of triangular trade |
proprietary colony | Colony owned by a one or more individuals |
royal colony | Colony ruled the king |
salutary neglect | Lack of English Enforcement of Navigation Act |
tariffs | Tax on imported goods |
Bacon's Rebellion | Former indentured servant's revolt against Jamestown Gov't for failure to prevent Indian Raids |
Glorious Revolution | William and Mary ascent to the thrown demonstrating popular opposition to oppressive rule brings change |
Great Awakening | Religious Revival of 1730s brought Evangelism to the masses |
Great Migration | 1630s immigration of 20,000+ Puritans to Mass. Bay Colony |
King Philip's War | 1675-76 War Between New England Settlers and American Indians |
King William's War | 1689-97 War between Indians allied with the English and French Settlers |
Pequot War | 1637-38 War between Mass. Bay Colonist and Conn. American Indians |
Salem witchcraft trials | 1692 Prosecution of single women as witches |
starving time | 1609-1610 Jamestown hardship |
stono uprising | 1739 South Carolina Slave Revolt |
absolutists | Belief in unlimited power of the Monarch |
congregationalists | Puritans who wished to purify the Anglican Church |
Jonathan Edwards | Congregationalist Minister known for "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
Benjamin Franklin | Early American Inventor, Writer, Educator and Stateman |
Anne Hutchinson | Puritan Dissenter advocate of Antinomianism banned from Mass Bay Colony |
Pilgrims | Separatists who settled at Plymouth Rock |
Pocahontas | Wife of John Rolfe, famed member of Powhatan tribe |
Powhatan | Virginian Native American Tribe / Harassed / Harassed by Jamestown Settlement |
Sir Walter Raleigh | English Explorer, founder of 1587 failed settlement at Roanoke |
Separatists | Puritans who wanted to break away from the Anglican Church |
John Smith | Leader of Jamestown Settlement, enforced martial law |
George Whitefield | Methodist Preacher during Great Awakening |
Roger Williams | Founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation |
Charter colony | A type of colony typically owned by a Joint-Stock Company |
Chesapeake | Middle Atlantic region including Virginian and Maryland Colonies |
Jamestown | Founded by Joint Stock Company in search of Western Passage and Gold, saved by Tobacco |
the lower south | Carolinas, concentrated on cash crops, slaves 50%+ of population |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | Northern Puritan Colony based on concept of covenant and served a communal ideal |
Middle colonies | Most diverse colonies in terms of religion and economic activities |
New England | Congregationalist Colonies focused primarily on trade |
Dominion of New England | 1686-1689 defensive alliance to enforce Navigation Acts and Fight Indians |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1639 Constitution. First in New World |
Halfway Covenant | 1662 act providing partial membership in Puritan church of Children/Grandchildren of members |
Maryland Act of Toleration | Freedom of religion guarantee |
Mayflower Compact | 1620 Agreement acknowledging right to government derives from consent of the governed |
Navigation Act | 1651 Act required goods bought and sold only to England; non-English goods highly taxed |