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1491-1754
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Act of Toleration | The Toleration Act 1689, also referred to as the Act of Toleration, was an Act of the Parliament of England. Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. |
| Aztecs | Member of the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was the first popular uprising in the American colonies. It was long viewed as an early revolt against English tyranny, which culminated in the war for independence one hundred years later. |
| Barbados Slave Code | The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, officially titled as An Act for the better ordering and governing enslaved peoples. |
| Bart Diaz | Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and demonstrate that the most effective southward route. |
| Ben Franklin | Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Founding Father. |
| Blue Laws | Religious laws. |
| Cash Crops | A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. |
| Charter Colonies | A colony, such as Virginia or Massachusetts, created by royal charter under the control of an individual, trading company, etc, and exempt from interference by the Crown. |
| Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain. |
| Church of England (Anglican) | The Church of England, or Anglican Church, is the primary state church in England, where the concepts of church and state are linked. |
| "City of God" | The City of God is marked by people who forgo earthly pleasure to dedicate themselves to the eternal truths of God. |
| "City upon a Hill" | The sermon is famous largely for its use of the phrase “a city on a hill,” used to describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay colony would shine like an example to the world . |
| Columbian Exchange | The Columbian Exchange is the term given to the transfer of plants, animals, disease, and technology between the Old World from which Columbus came and the New World which he found. |
| Congregational Church | It was a church system in which each local church served as the center of its own community. |
| Crusaders | Series of military expeditions made by Christian Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. |
| Dominion of New England | Colonial administrative union created by King James II in 1686. |
| Edmund Andros | Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion, was empowered to abolish existing legislative assemblies and rule by decree. |
| Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 Protestant Queen of England, made Protestism dominant in England. |
| Enclosure Movement | Push in 18th &19th centuries take land formerly been owned in common by members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it. |
| Fall line | Geographical region defined by the first waterfall encountered on a river. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | He discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean. (1480-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. |
| Ferdinando Gorges | |
| Francis Drake | English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596) |
| Francisco Coronado | Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them, Leads exploration through modern day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas searching for wealth and an empire to conquer; dies while searching. |
| Francisco Pizarro | A Spanish conquistador who went to the Incas and took Emperor prisoner and then killed him and took over the Inca empire. Columbian Exchange. |
| Fundamental Orders | |
| General Court | |
| George Calvert | |
| George Whitefield | |
| Glorious Revolution | |
| Great Awakening | |
| Great Puritan Migration | |
| Half-Way Convent | |
| Harvard College | |
| Headright System | |
| Henry the Navigator | |
| Henry VIII | |
| Hernando Cortes | |
| Hernando do Soto | |
| House of Burgesses | |
| "The Holy Experiment" | |
| HUguenots | |
| Humphrey Gilbert | |
| Hurons | |
| Incas | |
| Indentured Servants | |
| Iroquois Confederacy | |
| James Oglethorpe | |
| Jamestown | |
| John Calvin | |
| John Cotton | |
| John Mason | |
| John Peter Zenger | |
| John Rolfe | |
| John Smith | |
| John Winthorpe | |
| Joint Stock Company | |
| Jonathan Edwards | |
| King Phillip/s War | |
| Marco Polo | |
| Martin Luther | |
| Massachusetts School Laws | |
| Mayflower Compact | |
| Mercantilism | |
| Middle Passage | |
| Naval stores | |
| New England Confederation | |
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