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Vocabulary Unit 1
AP American History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A contract that bound all the passengers on the Mayflower to obey the decisions of the majority. | Mayflower Compact |
| an original settler in a region/people who wanted to separate from the Church of England. | Pilgrims/Separatists |
| A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks. | William Bradford |
| a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline | Puritans |
| 1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony. The colony established political freedom and a representative government. | Massachusetts Bay |
| A voluntary movement of 1000 European Puritans to Massachusetts Bay. | Great Migration |
| A model to inspire all humankind. The hope of Puritans escaping to America. Developed by John Winthrop in his sermon of 1630, but hardly ever appeared by other founders. | City Upon a Hill |
| 1629 - He became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, and served in that capacity from 1630 through 1649. | John Winthrop |
| the final stage to the Puritan conversion process. Beginning with discovery that one deserved damnation, then it progressed from despair to hope. You had to have a believable experience with God to be saved and become a saint. | Converted Saint |
| She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639. | Anne Hutchinson |
| 1635 - He left the Massachusetts colony and purchased the land from a neighboring Indian tribe to found the colony of Rhode Island. Rhode Island was the only colony at that time to offer complete religious freedom. | Roger Williams |
| The Half-way Covenant applied to those members of the Puritan colonies who were the children of church members, but who hadn’t achieved grace themselves. The covenant allowed them to participate in some church affairs. | Halfway Covenant |
| 1643 - Formed to provide for the defense of the four New England colonies, and also acted as a court in disputes between colonies. | New England Confederation |
| A series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft. | Salem Witch Trials |
| Established 1606 on the southern tip of Chesapeake Bay. The first English colony. | Jamestown |
| 1619, Virginia - the first legislative body in Colonial America. Later the other colonies would adopt it. | House of Burgesses |
| Any of certain colonies that were granted to an individual group by the British Crown and that were granted full rights of self-government (Maryland and Pennsylvania) | Proprietary colonies |
| A colony charted to an individual, trading company, etc., by the British Crown (Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island) | Charter colonies |
| A colony administered by a royal governor and council appointed by the British Crown, and having a representative assembly elected by the people (New York) | Royal colonies |
| He received a land grant from King Charles II and used it to form a colony that would provide a safe haven for Quakers. His colony, Pennsylvania, allowed riligious freedom. | William Penn |
| Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many colonists felt that he was a dictator, and that caused the colony to break down and for him to lose his position as governor. | James Ogelthorpe |
| Set up a unified government for the towns of Connecticut area (Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield). Considered by some the first written constitution of the West. | Fundamental Orders |
| 1649 - Ordered by Lord Baltimore after a Protestant was made governor of Maryland at the demand of the colony's large Protestant population. The act guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians. | Act of Toleration |
| founded in 1636 by a grant from the Massachusetts general court. Followed Puritan beliefs. Established to train boys to become ministers. | Harvard College |
| People who could not afford passage to the colonies. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, they would serve that person for a set length of time (usually 7 years) and then would be free. | Indentured servants |
| Parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. | Headright System |
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