Worlds Collide, 1450-1630 Flashcards
(40 cards)
In 1620, the first agreement for self-government in America was signed by 41 men on the Mayflower, which set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
Mayflower Compact
Pilgrim (Separatist) leader who was governor of the Plymouth colony for 30 years. He helped develop private land ownership and helped the colony survive.
William Bradford
Separatists who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed, so they fled to America and settled in Plymouth in 1620.
Pilgrims
Non-separatists who wanted to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and settled in Massachusetts Bay colony in 1629.
Puritans
In 1629, King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern this colony, which established political freedom and a representative government.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The national church of England founded by King Henry VIII, which included both Roman Catholic and Protestant ideas.
Anglican Church or Church of England
In 1629, led 1,000 Puritans to America to escape religious persecution and wanted to build an ideal Christian society.
John Winthrop
In 1630, persecution by King Charles I brought 25,000 Puritans to America to practice their religion.
Great Puritan Migration
This religion influenced both Pilgrims and Puritans, which rejected the authority of the Roman Catholic church and stressed predestination of every person. God chose who would be saved at birth.
Calvinism (John Calvin)
The church founded by the Puritans that stressed morality over church rituals.
Congregational Church
This company founded Virginia as a profit earning venture, but would eventually go bankrupt making Virginia into a royal colony.
Virginia Company
This system was used by the Virginia Company in which 50 acres of land was granted to any man who would bring a servant and emigrate to America.
Headright System
Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.
John Smith
In 1619, John Rolfe (married Pocahontas) was an English settler who introduced this cash crop into Virginia, making it an economically successful colony.
Tobacco
In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in this American colony.
Virginia
In 1619, this became the first legislative body in colonial America, which would be adopted by other colonies.
House of Burgesses (Virginia)
A medieval inheritance law that awarded all of a father’s property to the eldest son.
Primogeniture
Chief source of labor in the plantation economies of Virginia and Maryland. Workers sign a contract in which their passage to the colonies would be paid in exchange for 4-7 years of labor.
Indentured Servant
Most powerful Native American political alliance that consisted of five nations: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk.
Iroquois Confederacy
During the years 1450-1600, there was a rebirth of classical learning, artistic and scientific activity, improvements in technology, and the wide use of the printing press.
European Renaissance
Exchange of foods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Europeans and Indians.
Columbian Exchange
Pope divides the Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal.
Papal Line of Demarcation
Spain got most of North and South America, while Portugal got parts of East Africa and Brazil.
Treaty of Tordesillas
First Spanish settlement in North America in 1565. (Florida)
St. Augustine
