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| Roanoke Island was colonized in the year ____________ and is located in _____________ |
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| Jamestown was colonized in the year ___________ and is located in ___________ |
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| Pilgrims found Plymouth Plantations in the year _________ in ____________ |
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| Puritans founded ______________ in the year ___ |
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| Massachusetts Bay Colony ... 1630 |
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| Bacon's Rebellion occurred in __________ in the year _________ |
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| King Philip's War occurred in __________ in the year ______ |
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| The Salem Witch Trials occurred in ________________ in the year _________ |
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| Salem, Massachusetts ... 1692 |
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| The Protestant church that King Henry VIII established as England's official church in the sixteenth century; also known as the Anglican church |
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| English Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England |
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| The lawmaking branch of the English government, composed of the House of Lords, representing English nobility, and the House of Commons, an elected body of untitled English citizens. |
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| The exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government. |
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| The events in 1688 that resulted in the removal of James II from the throne of England and the crowning of the Protestant monarchs William and Mary. |
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| A person who organizes and manages a business enterprise that involves risk and requires initiative |
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| A business financed through the sale of shares of stock to investors, who share both the profits and the losses from a risky venture |
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| Colonies owned by an individual or group of individuals who determined how settlement would take place and the rules and laws under which the colonists would live |
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| Colonies under the direct authority of the king or queen |
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| An official document in which a sovereign or governing body grants rights or privileges |
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The first permanent English settlement in America; it was founded in Virginia in 1607
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| English colonist at Jamestown who imposed military discipline when disease and famine threatened the settlement |
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| Virginia Company program under which colonists who paid their own expenses or the expenses of another person got 50 acres of land per settler in return |
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| The representative lawmaking body of Virginia; it was established bu the Virginia Company in 1618 |
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| A person who farms land owned by someone else and pays rent either in cash or by giving up a share of the crops |
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| Authorization to carry out a particular task or duty |
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| People who take the law into their own hands |
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A revolt of backcountry farmers against the colonial government of Virginia; it was triggered by inland taxes and strife with the Indians, and collapsed after the death of Nathaniel bacon.
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| Someone obligated to compulsory service for a fixed period of time, usually from four to seven years, most often agreed to in exchange for passage to the colonies. A labor contract called an indenture spelled out the terms of the agreement. |
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| English Protestants who chose to leave the Church of England because they believed it was corrupt |
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A small group of Separatists who left England in search of religious freedom and sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620. (route #3)
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| Pilgrim leaders who organized the Mayflower journey and became governor of the Plymouth colony |
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| An agreement drafted in 1620, when the Pilgrims reached Cape Cod, granting political rights to all male colonists willing to abide by the colony's laws |
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| A Patuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to survive in America and acted as a translator |
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| English Puritan who was one of the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony and served as its first governor |
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| The movement of Puritans from England to America in the 1630s; it was caused by political conflict in England and by the fear of persecution. |
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| A person who was granted full membership in a Puritan church after testifying to an experience of "saving faith" |
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| A system in which people or things are ranked one above another |
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| Members of the Religious Society of Friends, a Protestant sect; Quakers believe in the equality of men and women, refuse to bear arms, and seek divine inspiration from the "inner light" within each individual. |
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| A person who publicly dissents from an officially accepted doctrine or religion |
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| A minister who was banished from Massachusetts for criticizing the Puritan leaders of the colony; in 1636 he founded Providence, a community based on religious freedom. (Providence is in Rhode Island) |
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| A religious leader who was banished from Massachusetts in 1637 because of her heretical beliefs |
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| An American Indian people inhabiting eastern Connecticut; when the Pequots resisted colonial expansion, the Massachusetts bay colonists declared war on them |
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| War between settlers and Indians in New England from 1675 through 1676; it ended after the Wampanoag chief Metacomet was killed. |
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| An agreement that gave partial membership in Puritan churches to the children of church members even if they had not had a "saving faith" experience |
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| The limitation of voting rights to people who owned certain kinds of property |
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| Members of a Calvinist sect that eventually became the established church of Scotland; in the seventeenth century, it was sometimes opposed by Scotland;s rulers. |
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| English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681 |
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| A gathering of Quakers for reflection and silent or oral prayer |
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| Owners of small landholdings who were entitled to vote |
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| Products such as timber, tar, resin, pitch, and turpentine, used in the building of wooden ships. |
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| Englishman who established the colony of Georgia as an asylum for debtors |
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