Unit 2 Flashcards
(35 cards)
Beaver Wars
Series of bloody conflicts, occurring between 1640s and 1680s, during which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region.
Virginia Company
A group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in 1607
House of Burgesses
The legislature of colonial Virginia. First organized in 1619, it was the first institution of representative government in the English colonies.
Indentured Servants
Individuals who contracted to serve a master for a period of four to seven years in return for payment of the servant’s passage to America.
Puritans
Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth’s reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church. Puritans led the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Pilgrims
Settlers of Plymouth Colony, who viewed themselves as spiritual wanderers
Separatists
Members of an offshoot branch of Puritanism. Separatists believed that the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed and hence were convince they must “separate” from it to save their souls.
Mayflower Compact
The first document of self-government in North America
Massachusetts Bay Company
A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay
Great Migration
Puritan emigration to North America between 1629 and 1643.
Proprietary Colony
A colony created when the English monarch granted a huge tract of land to an individual or group of individuals, who became “lords proprietor.”
Quakers
Members of the Society of Friends, a radical religious group that arose in the mid-seventeenth century. Quakers rejected formal theology, focusing instead on the Holy Spirit that dwelt within them
Frame of Government
William Penn’s constitution for Pennsylvania which included a provision allowing for religious freedom
Pequot Wat
Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of land and trade in eastern Connecticut
King Philip’s War
Conflict in New England (1675-1676) between Wampanoags, Narragnsetts, and other Indian peoples against English settlers; sparked by English encroachments on native lands.
Covenant Chain
An alliance between the Iroquois Confederation and the colony of New York which sought to establish Iroquois dominance over all other tribes and thus put New irk in an economically and politically dominant position among the other colonies.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Violent conflict in Virginia (1675-1676), beginning with settler attacks on Indians but culminating in a rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia’s government
Culpeper’s Rebellion
The overthrow of the established government in the Albermarle region of North Carolina by back county men in 1677
King William’s War
The first of a series of colonial struggles between England and France; these con flits occurred principally on the frontiers of northern New England and New York between 1689 and 1697
Seven Years’ War
War fought in Europe, North America, and India between 1756 and 1763, pitting France and its allies against Great Britain and its allies
Middle Passage
The voyage between West Africa and the New World slave colonies
Slave codes
A series of laws passed mainly in the southern colonies in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.
Great Awakening
Tremendous religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle Colonies and New England in the 1740s and then priding to the southern colonies.
mercantilism
Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth
