APUSH vocab terms 22-41 Flashcards
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Corporate colonies
Land run by stockholders under permission of the King. Charters and land grants.
Royal colonies
A colony directly under the rule of England, with English laws
proprietary colonies
Land given to favored man to rule under orders of the king. They would pick how to run these areas.
Jamestown, 1607
the first permanent English settlement in North America. Named after King James
Captain John Smith
an adventurer, soldier, explorer and author. Through the telling of his early life, we can trace the developments of a man who became a dominate force in the eventual success of Jamestown and the establishment of its legacy
Headright system
This system rewarded anyone who conveyed himself, his family or any others to the colonies with 50 acres of land per head.
Plymouth colony/sepratist(pilgrims)
The separatists believed that the Church of England wasn’t reformed enough and that it contained too many Roman Catholic rituals.
Massachusetts Bay colony/Puritans
a reform movement that strove to purify the practices and structure of the Church of England in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. As dissidents, they sought religious freedom and economic opportunities in distant lands.
John Winthrop
was an early Puritan leader whose vision for a godly commonwealth created the basis for an established religion that remained in place in Massachusetts until well after adoption of the First Amendment. Created Boston and wrote about the “castle on the hill”
Great migration
The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Lord Baltimore is most noted for the founding of Maryland. Beyond that, he is known for creating religious freedom for all Christians within his North American colonies
Maryland act of toleration
The Maryland Toleration Act was significant because it is the first instance of the separation of church and state found in colonial America. The act had limitations including only tolerating religions in the Christian faith and being able to revoke the freedom of religion at any time. Let catholics worship
New England (region)
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Roger Williams
The political and religious leader Roger Williams (c. 1603?-1683) is best known for founding the state of Rhode Island and advocating separation of church and state in Colonial America. He is also the founder of the first Baptist church in America.
Anne Hutchinson
Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged male authority—and, indirectly, acceptable gender roles—by preaching to both women and men and by questioning Puritan teachings about salvation.
halfway covenant
the Halfway Covenant allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the “elect” members of the church from the regular members;
William Penn
William Penn (1644–1718), founder of Pennsylvania and one of the first champions of expressive freedoms in the American colonies, demonstrated how a free society could work and how individuals of different races and religions could live together in liberty and peace.
Quakers
Quakers are followers of a religious movement that began as an offshoot of Christianity in 17th century England. The movement emphasizes equal, inward access to God for all people. Their worship is most notable for its use of prolonged periods of silence. People in debt or imprisoned lived in georgia.
James Oglethorpe/Georgia
Championing the Oppressed. From 1722 to 1743, Oglethorpe served in the British House of Commons, gaining a reputation as the champion of the oppressed. He pressed for the elimination of English prison abuses and, in 1732, defended the North American colonies’ right to trade freely with Britain and the other colonies.
Virginia House of Burgesses
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. About 140 years later, when Washington was elected, the electorate was made up of male landholders.
Mayflower compact
It was a short document which established that: The colonists would remain loyal subjects to King James, despite their need for self-governance.
