How different European colonies developed and expanded
Transcontinental trade
Interactions between American Indians and Europeans
Slavery in the British colonies
Colonial society and culture
🔵 1619 House of Burgesses
🔵 1620 Mayflower Compact
1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded
🟢 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
1692 Salem Witch Trials
🟢 1739 Stono Rebellion
⭐ 1754-1763 French and Indian War
🟢 Joint-Stock Company
Puritans
Pilgrims
Virginia Company
⭐ Indentured Servitude
John Winthrop
🟢 Mayflower Compact
Half-Way Covenant
Maryland Toleration Act
Middle Colonies
New England Colonies
Southern Colonies
🔵 Roger Williams
🔵 Anne Hutchinson
Bacon's Rebellion
⭐ Slave Codes
Metacom
🔵 Navigation Acts
🟢 Middle Passage
⭐ American Enlightenment
🟢 Salutary Neglect
⭐ Great Awakening
Zenger Trial
🟢 John Locke
🔵 Liberalism
Republicanism
Johnathan Edwards
George Whitefield
House of Burgesses: It was the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies. It was part of the governing body of Virginia, consisting of 2 elected representatives from each county.
Mayflower Compact: First agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded: Settled by about eleven thousand Puritans under the guidance of Governor John Winthrop. Winthrop declared that "we shall be as a city upon a hill," in which the Puritans of the Bay Colony would build a model religious community based on Puritan beliefs and values.
Bacon's Rebellion: An uprising that took place in Colonial Virginia. Nathaniel Bacon and his army of farmers, indentured servants, and slaves attacked Jamestown and demanded the governor's resignation.
Salem Witch Trials: A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. The trials resulted in the executions of 20 people, most of them women.
Stono Rebellion: The largest uprising of enslaved people in the colonies. A group of slaves burned buildings and killed people as they tried to escape to freedom in Florida. Local militia stopped them.
French and Indian War: The war was fought between the French and Indian allies against the British and their Indian allies. The war started in America and extended to Europe, where it was called the Seven Years' War. France diverted many resources to fighting the Prussians.
Definition: A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
Significance: They improved the economic status of colonies as more people contributed since it was now a lower risk.
Definition: A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.
Significance: They founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Definition: Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Significance: They established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Definition: English joint-stock company that received a charter from King James I that allowed it to found the Virginia colony.
Significance: This allowed for the Virginia colony which led to Jamestown.
Definition: A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination.
Significance: They were cheaper laborers who work mostly for plantations which increased sales pf cash crops like tobacco.
Definition: Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill".
Significance: Created a basis for an established religion that remained in Massachusetts.
Definition: A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good.
Significance: It was the first document to establish self-government.
Definition: A Puritan church document; In 1662, the Half-way 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; Women son made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations.
Significance: This lessened the difference between the "elect" members of a church from the regular members which led to more women leading.
Definition: Act that was passed in Maryland that guaranteed toleration to all Christians, regardless of sect but not to those who did not believe in the divinity of Jesus. Though it did not sanction much tolerance.
Significance: Meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers.
Definition: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Significance: Trade centers.
Definition: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
Significance: Trade (fishing, lumbering, and subsistence farming), mixed economy.
Definition: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Significance: Southern and plantations.
Definition: A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state was banished in 1636.
Significance: Founded the colony of Rhode Island to the South.
Definition: a Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island.
Significance: She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Definition: A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land and transitioned to salve labor.
Significance: This allowed them to gain more land and transition into slave labor.
Definition: Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.
Significance: It kept slaves from running away or rebelling and marked the start of codification of slavery.
Definition: Aka King Philip, Native American ruler, who in 1675 led attacks on colonial villages throughout Massachusetts.
Significance: Led one of the most costly wars of resistance in New England history, known as King Philip's War.
Definition: Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England.
Significance: These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Definition: A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
Significance: Supplied the New World with its major workforce and brought enormous profits from trading with other countries.
Definition: Revolution in thought in the eighteenth century that emphasized reasons during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.
Significance: It introduced new ways of thinking, especially regarding government.
Definition: An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies.
Significance: It allowed the colonies to create and maintain foreign trade relationships, which resulted in their economic growth and prosperity.
Definition: Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.
Significance: It helped prepare the colonies for the American Revolution.
Definition: New York libel case against John Peter Zenger. Established the principle that truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel.
Significance: It became a symbol of the American commitment to freedom of the press.
Definition: 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.
Significance: He laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism.
Definition: A political ideology that emphasized rule of law, representative democracy, rights of citizen, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes.
Significance: Emphasizes individual rights and freedoms and a limited role for government.
Definition: The belief that government should be based on the consent of the people.
Significance: Played a major role in the development of America's system of government, as it was the basis of now the government should be ran.
Definition: Helped start the Great Awakening and wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
Significance: He is a window into a critical period in American history and was a shaper of spiritual life in America.
Definition: English clergyman who was known for his ability to convince many people through his sermons. He involved himself in the Great Awakening in 1739 preaching his belief in gaining salvation.
Significance: Ignited the Great Awakening which changed the way people experienced God.
First elected legislative assembly.
First agreement for self-government in America.
Founded by John Winthrop and was meant to be a religious colony based on Puritan beliefs.
Nathaniel Bacon, farmers, indentured servants, and slaves attacked Jamestown demanding the governor's resignation.
Hearings and prosecutions of accused witchcraft in Massachusetts.
Largest uprising of enslaved people as they burned buildings and killed people while trying to escape to freedom.
Between the French and Indian allies against the British and their Indian allies. This war went into Europe and is also called the Seven Years' War.
Shareholders that contribute money and receive share of the profits and debts which improved economic status.
Wanted to purify the Church of England and they founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
English Protestant who established Plymouth Colony.
Join-stock company that received charter tat allowed them to found the Virginia colony and therefore Jamestown.
Worker bound by agreement to work for specific years for free passage to overseas destination.
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and created a basis for an established religion.
A contract in which they agreed to have fair laws an was the first document to established self-government.
A Puritan church document that lessened the difference between the "elect" members of a church.
Guaranteed toleration to all Christians but not to those who did not believe in the divinity of Jesus.
Trade centers.
Trade such as fishing, lumbering, and subsistence farming, mixed economy.
Plantations and slaves.
Clashed with Puritans over separation of church and state so he founded the colony of Rhode Island.
Puritan that questioned authority and disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts, she was banished and helped form Rhode Island.
Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon that attacked in an attempt to gain more land and transition into slave labor.
Laws that controlled African American rights.
Native American ruler that led an attack on colonial villages named King Philip's War.
Laws that governed trade between England and colonies which made colonists mad because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Brought enslaved Africans and brought profit.
Introduced new ways of thinking, especially regarding government.
English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in colonies.
Religious revival and new Protestant churches were established.
Truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as liber and was a symbol for commitment to freedom of the press.
Opposed the Divine Right of Kings and that we have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.
Emphasized individual rights and freedoms and a limited role for government.
Belief that government should be based on the consent of the people.
Helped start the Great Awakening and wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
Convinced many people through sermons and was involved in Great Awakening.