Vocab Unit 1 Flashcards
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It allowed unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children; hypocritical and showed a weakening of religious zeal among Puritans.
The Halfway Covenant
First Permanent English colony in the new world.
Jamestown
The journey of West Africans being moved to the Caribbean to begin their lives as slaves in the New World.
Middle Passage
It was a mass immigration of about 30,000 Puritans to the New World to escape from the English Civil war.
The Great Migration
The trade of goods, crops, and diseases between the New and Old World societies after 1492
Columbian Exchange
Spain’s system of labor in the New World essentially made the Natives into serfs.
Encomienda System
This violent Virginia Rebellion in 1676 marked the shift from using indentured servants to using slaves.
Bacons Rebellion
This noble was given the proprietary colony of Georgia which was designed as a buffer between English territory in North America and Spanish territory in Florida.
Oglethorpe
It was the first written form of government in the colonies was put together on a Pilgrim ship prior to landing at Plymouth.
The Mayflower Compact
He was the first leader of the Puritans who landed in Massachusetts. He established the theocratic settlement at Boston with the intention of making a, “City upon a Hill.”
Jonathan Winthrop
Calvinist doctrine that God had foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned. Though their fate was irreversible, Calvinists sought to lead sanctified lives in order to demonstrate to others that they were in fact members of the “elect.”
Predestination
This system allowed for fifty acres of prime tobacco land to be given to anyone paying the passage of any person coming to America.
Headright System
He was a New York printer tried for seditious libel against the state’s corrupt royal governor; his acquittal set an important precedent for freedom of the press.
John Peter Zenger
An economic belief that there is only limited wealth in the world and colonies must be exploited in order to enrich the mother country.
Mercantilism
Belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or man; most notably espoused in the colonies by Anne Hutchinson.
Antinomianism
English adventurer who took control of Jamestown in 1608 and ensured the survival of the colony by directing gold-hungry colonists toward more productive tasks. He also sang and danced while Pocahontas talked to trees.
John Smith
These individuals settled on the frontier; as far away from the English as possible. They were the most self sufficient and least loyal of the English settlers.
Scots-Irish
This was passed by Lord Baltimore to allow for the peaceful coexistence of all religions, primarily Catholics.
Act of Toleration
Set of laws beginning in 1662 defining racial slavery; established the hereditary nature of slavery and limited the rights and education of slaves.
Slave Codes
This woman was exiled from Massachusetts Bay colony for questioning predestination; she helped to found Rhode Island.
Anne Hutchinson
Religious group known for their tolerance, emphasis on peace, and idealistic Indian policy, who settled heavily in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Quakers
This Quaker leader established Pennsylvania. He then went on to try to create a Quaker utopia there.
William Penn
A series of witchcraft trials were launched in this town after a group of adolescent girls claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town; twenty individuals were put to death before the trials were put to an end by the governor of Massachusetts.
Salem
Armed conflict between royalists and parliamentarians, resulting in the victory of pro-Parliament forces and the execution of Charles I.
The English Civil War
