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| Definition and Significance of Charter Colony: | a colony, as Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, chartered to an individual, trading company, etc., by the British crown. |
| Definition and Significance of Virginia Company of London: | The Virginia Company was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by King James I with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. |
| Definition and Significance of Jamestown: | A British settlement established on the James River in Virginia in 1607, abandoned when the colonial capital was moved to Williamsburg at the end of the 17th century. |
| Definition and Significance of Powhatan Indians: | A confederacy of Native American peoples of eastern Virginia in the 16th and 17th centuries, with present-day descendants in the same area. |
| Definition and Significance of John Smith: | An english explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631). |
| Definition and Significance of Pocahontas: | American Indian; daughter of Powhatan, an Algonquian chief in Virginia. According to John Smith, she rescued him from death at hands of her father. In 1612, she was seized as a hostage by the English, and she later married colonist John Rolfe. |
| Definition and Significance of Starving Time: | The Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was a period of forced starvation initiated by the Powhatan Confederacy to remove the English from Virginia. The campaign killed all but 60 of the 500 colonists during the winter of 1609-1610. |
| Definition and Significance of John Rolfe: | John Rolfe 9c. 1585 - 16220 was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export corp in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas. |
| Definition and Significance of indentured Servants: | An indentured servant was a worker, typically a laborer or tradesman, under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities. |
| Definition and Significance of Head-right System: | System set up by the London company in 1618 that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia, or paid the way for someone else. |
| Definition and Significance of Virginia House of Burgesses: | Burgess originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh. It later came to mean an elected or appointed official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons. |
| Definition and Significance of Anglo-Powhatan Wars: | The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century. The First War started in 1610, and ended in a peace settlement in 1614. |
| Definition of Significance of Church of England: | Anglican Church: the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head. |
| Definition of Significance of Puritans: | One who practices or preaches a more rigorous or professedly purer moral code than that which prevails. Began with the 16th and 17th century Protestant group that opposed the ceremonies of the Church of England as unscriptural. |
| Definition of Significance of Pilgrims Mayflower Compact: | An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws. |
| Definition of Significance of Plymouth Bay: | Plymouth Bay is the name of a small, well-protected bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the western shore of larger Cape Cod Bay along the coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
| Definition of Significance of William Bradford: | William Bradford (April 30, 1823 - April 25, 1892) was an American romanticist painter, photographer and explorer, originally from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, near New Bedford. |
| Definition of Significance of Squanto: | Tisquantum (better known as Squanto) (c. 1580s – November 1622) was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. |
| Definition of Significance of Massasoit: | (c.1580–1661), chief of the Wampanoag Indians; father of King Philip. He signed a peace treaty with the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1621 and remained a friend to white settlers. |
| Definition of Significance of Massachusetts Bay Company: | The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. |
| Definition of Significance of Great Migration: | The Great Migration is the debut album from Wu-Tang affiliate producer and rapper Bronze Nazareth, released through Dreddy Kruger's Think Differently imprint on Babygrande Records. |
| Definition of Significance of General Court: | The Maryland Constitution of 1776 renamed the Provincial Court as the General Court, which was divided geographically into the General Courts of the Eastern and Western Shores. |
| Definition of Significance of John Winthrop | (born Jan. 22 [Jan. 12, Old Style], 1588, Edwardstone, Suffolk, Eng.—died April 5 [March 26], 1649, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. |
| Definition of Significance of A model of christian charity: | "A Model of Christian Charity" is a 1630 sermon by early American colonist John Winthrop, who wrote this piece while on board of the Arabella. |
| Definition of Significance of visible saints: | Prosperity theology (also known as prosperity doctrine, the health and wealth gospel, or the prosperity gospel) is a religious belief found among "tens of millions" of Christians centered on the notion that God provides material prosperity. |
| Definition of Significance of predestination: | Predestination is a religious concept, which involves the relationship between God and God's creation. The religious character of predestination distinguishes it from other ideas about determinism and free will. |
| Definition of Significance of protestant work ethic: | The Protestant Work Ethic (or the Puritan Work Ethic) is a concept in sociology, economics and history, attributable to the work of Max Weber. |
| Definition of Significance of congressional church: | (Christianity / Protestantism) any evangelical Protestant Christian Church that is governed according to the principles of Congregationalism. In 1972 the majority of churches in the Congregational Church in England and Wales voted. |
| Definition of Significance of roger williams: | Williams: English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683). |
| Definition of Significance of providence: | Providence was a large sidewheel steamer launched in 1866 by William H. Webb of New York for the Merchants Steamship Company. The first of Narragansett Bay's so-called "floating palaces","The Floating Palaces, 'Providence' and 'Bristol'", Newport Mercury. |
| Definition of Significance of Anne Hutchinson: | Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group. |
| Definition of Significance of Antinomianism: | a religious movement which believes that only the spiritual 'law of Faith' (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation; and which is 'against' all other practical 'laws' being taught as being essential for salvation; and refering to them as legalism. |
| Definition of Significance of Thomas Hooker: | (born , probably July 7, 1586, Markfield, Leicestershire, Eng.—died July 7, 1647, Hartford, Conn. [U.S.]), prominent British American colonial clergyman and a founder of Hartford, sometimes called “the father of American democracy.” |
| Definition of Significance of Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: | The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1638/39 OS (January 24, 1639 NS). The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. |
| Definition of Significance of Pequot War: | So-called war consisting of clumsy plundering by Massachusetts troops and raids by Pequots in 1637. The colonists eventually won the alliance of rival tribes and waged a ruthless campaign. The war tipped the balance of military power to the English. |
| Definition of Significance of Metacom: | Metacom (ca. 1639 - August 12, 1676), also known as King Philip or Metacomet, or occasionally Pometacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War. |
| Definition of Significance of King Philip's War: | (1675–77) The first large-scale military action in the American colonies, pitting various Indian tribes against New England colonists and their Indian allies. Marked by heavy slaughters on both sides (including killings of women and children). |
| Definition of Significance of Henry Hudson: | Hudson: English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611). |
| Definition of Significance of New Netherlands: | New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the seventeenth-century colonial province on the East Coast of North America of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula. |
| Definition of Significance of Patroonship: | an Anglicized Dutch term referring to a grant of land and political authority (a fief) awarded to an individual, a patroon, who had the obligation to settle fifty colonists within four years. |
| Definition of Significance of Peter Stuyvesant: | Peter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 - August 1672), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. |
| Definition of Significance of Quakers: | (quakerism) the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry |
| Definition of Significance of William Penn: | Son of an Admiral who had supported the restoration, Penn joined the Quakers in 1662 after he was thrown out of college for associating with Puritans. His trial, with William Meade, for preaching at an unauthorized Quaker meeting. |
| Definition of Significance of Proprietary Colony: | A proprietary colony is a colony in which one or more private land owners retain rights that are normally the privilege of the state, and in all cases eventually became so. |
| Definition of Significance of Maryland Act of Toleration: | The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. |
| Definition of Significance of Royal Colony: | The British Overseas Territories are fourteen territories of the United Kingdom which, although they do not form part of the United Kingdom itself, fall under its jurisdiction. |
| Definition of Significance of James Oglethorpe: | James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) was a British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer in Britain, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prison. |
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