| A | B |
|---|
| Croatoan | indian tribe that lives in VA |
| starvings time | time in Jamestown when conditions were bad |
| "bride ships" | ships that brought women to Jamestown |
| indentured servants | worked 4-7 years in return for land, board, and eventually freedom |
| Bacon's Rebellion | led by Nethaniel Bacon (1676) burned Jamestown down |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | first representative assembly, set a precident (1619) |
| Magna Carta | (1215) first form of law, signed by king John |
| Maryland | a haven for Catholics, named after Queen Maria |
| Toleration Act | (1649) allowed religious freedom to any christian group |
| Georgia | debtors haven, James Oglethorp |
| Puritans, Seperatists, and Quakers | all religiously persecuted in england |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Puritans, 1630-1640 20,000 Puritans came to the colony |
| Rhode Island | started by Roger Williams, bought it from N. Americans, religious freedom in Rhode Is. |
| Ann Hutchinson | banished b/c she challenged the Bible, began another settlement in Portmouth(Rhode Is.) |
| New York | in 1664 Duke of York takes over New Amsterdam |
| patroons | Dutch, made land by the river unobtainable |
| "Pen's Woods" | haven for Quakers, Pennsylvania, William Penn |
| social mobility | ability to move up socialy |
| gentry | landowner |
| "children of the devil" | Native Americans |
| Great Awakening | religious revival in 1740's |
| General School Act | (1647)if 50 families in a colony there must be a school |
| Enlightenment | intelectual movment in Europe |
| John Locke | natural rights, right to revolt |
| John Peter Zenger | charged for libel, charged governor with corruption in an article |
| "bread colonies" | southern colonies, Germans |
