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AM history test 01
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Protestant reformation | a Christian reform movement in Europe which is generally deemed to have begun with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. |
| Puritans | a denomination of Christianity that believes that people are predestined for heaven or hell but in order to go to Heaven they must purify the soul. |
| VA company | The Virginia Company was formed with a charter from King James I in 1606. It had the power to appoint the Council of Virginia, the Governor and other officials, and the responsibility to provide settlers, supplies and ships for the venture. |
| Bacons Rebellion | an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part |
| slavery | Slavery in the United States had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607. |
| indentured servent | a laborer 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. |
| New England Primer | the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in colonial American and the early days of United States history. |
| Jamestown | located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14, 1607.[1] It is commonly regarded as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America. It is where the VA company head quarters was |
| King Philip's war | an armed conflict between Indians and colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676. It continued in northern New England even after King Philip was killed, until a treaty was signed at Casco Bay, Maine in April 1678. |
| theocracy | a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler |
| tobacco | the souths main money maker |
| William Bradford | an English leader of the Separatist settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John Carver died. |
| covenant chain | an alliance between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British colonies of North America. Their councils and subsequent treaties concerned colonial settlement, trade, and acts of violence between the Iroquois and the colonists. |
| indians | the first settlers in America |
| house of burgesses | the legislative branch for the new colonies based out of Virginia |
| Anne Hutchinson | a settler in MA & RI. The minister of a church. Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women and men. comes up w/ own theories. some offended the colonies. After a trial before a jury of officials: banished from her colony. |
| enclosure movement | large landowners closed off the land in England and small farmers lost their jobs. |
| Chesapeake Bay | Captain John Smith of England explored and mapped the bay between 1607 and 1609. The bill passed by voice vote in the House of Representatives and in the Senate |
| head right grants | This type of land grant was similar to the others, except for the consideration involved. Some colonies attracted settlers by granting land to those who paid the passage for someone else to enter the colony from the Old World. |
| Massachusetts Bay | The first 400 settlers under this new charter departed in April 1629. Most, but not all of the members of the Company were Puritans, and events during the spring and summer of 1629 convinced them that many others would be attracted to such a colony. |
| john winthrop | led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630, and joined the Massachusetts Bay Company later that year, and then was elected their governor in October 1629 |
| small pox | brought over by Europeans and killed off all the indians. |
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