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English/British Empire
Exhibited control in the form of dominions, colonies, mandates, and
territories. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent ruler during the
colonial period of this empire. French Rivalry + engaged in
Columbian Exchange.
Jamestown
First permanent English settlement; located in Virginia. Founded by
London Company
Mayflower Compact
Pilgrims/Separatists agreement: agreement to obey laws created by
the community and a profession of allegiance to the king
,Chesapeake colonies
Term for the colonies of Maryland and Virginia
Virginia colony
This colony was founded in 1607. First settlement was Jamestown.
Charter to stock company/royal. Tobacco was vital to its survival.
1619
The year when the first U.S representative assembly was
established - House of Burgesses (Jamestown, Virginia)
Bacon's rebellion
Colonial uprising that took place in 1676 in the Virginia colony, led
by Nathaniel Bacon. Virginians resented William Berkeley's friendly
policy
towards Native Americans. This was the first rebellion in American
colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part.
Maryland colony
Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, founded to be a place for
persecuted Catholics to find refuge, a safe haven, act of toleration
, Toleration Act
Guaranteed religious toleration to trinitarian Christians, but
decreed the death penalty to Jews and atheists and others who
didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ,
New England colonies
The term for the colonies of Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island, and New
Hampshire
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colony founded in 1630 by John Winthrop, part of the Great
Puritan
Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City
upon a hill"
John Winthrop
Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City
upon a hill"
, "City upon a hill"
Said by Winthrop; refers to the idea that Puritan colonists
emigrating to the New World were part of a special pact with
God to create a holy community: a model society to the
world/moral commonwealth
Salem Witch Trials
1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a Massachussetts Bay
puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and
stress. Spectral evidence was used frequently.
Rhode Island Colony
Self-governing colony founded by Roger Williams in 1636; granted
freedom for all religions and non-believers; religious toleration;
disestablishment, universal suffrage for white males w/property
qualifications; most
democratic
Disestablishment
Separation of church and state; no religion is officially supported by
the state/government; opposed tax-supported church