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John Smith Captain who led the Jamestown colonists and took control of ruling the colony at one point to help teach them work ethic
Pocahontas Chief Wohunsonacock’s daughter, married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe and help maintain peace between the natives and colonists
Nathaniel Bacon wealthy frontier planter and Virginia colonists who led a rebellion of former indentured servants
Bacon’s Rebellion Led by Nathaniel Bacon, a uprising of former indentured servants who protested their feelings about Virginia’s assembly ignoring their concerns about taxes, lack of farm land available and attacks from native, included an attack on Jamestown
William Bradford Pilgrim leader who helped establish the Mayflower Compact after they landed in Plymouth
Mayflower Compact A contract signed by the Pilgrims who came to Plymouth to establish fair laws and govern the general good, signed November 1620
Squanto Patuxet Indian who helped the Pilgrims in Plymouth area, spoke English and taught the colonists how to farm
Great Migration tens of thousands of English men, women and children who left England due to economic, political and religious problems and moved to the colonies
John Winthrop Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, believed that they had made a covenant with God to build an ideal Christian community in the Americas.
Thomas Hooker minister who decided to leave Massachusetts and help found Connecticut, he also helped draft the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Roger Williams Puritan minister who called for his church to leave Massachusetts and, they formed a new settlement: Providence, RI
Anne Hutchinson had radical religious beliefs and was forced to leave Massachusetts and formed a new settlement: Portsmouth, RI
Cecilius Calvert given a charter King Charles I to found the colony of Maryland, a place for English Catholics escaping persecution
Quakers ‘Society of Friends’, supported non violence and religious tolerance for all people, originally in New Jersey, left to found Pennsylvania.
William Penn King Charles II granted land to him to find a new colony for the Quakers
James Oglethrope King George II granted him a charter to find the colony of Georgia for poor English citizens
Privy Council a group of royal advisors who set English policies in the colonies
Parliament England’s national lawmaking body
House of Burgesses the assembly’s second house in the colony of VA, the first being the Council of State
Glorious Revolution the overthrow of King James II and the removal of Edmund Andros as governor of the Dominion of England by colonists
Middle Passage name of voyage that brought over around 10 million Africans to be slaves in the colonies
Great Awakening a widespread Christian movement involving sermons and revivals that emphasized faith in God
Jonathan Edwards One of the leaders of the Great Awakening, gave dramatic sermons urging sinners to seek forgiveness
George Whitefield British minister involved in the Great Awakening
Gilbert Tennent Minister involved in the Great Awakening that split the Presbyterian Church into two groups: Old Side and New Side
Scientific Revolution New ideas about the universe, especially in mathematics and astronomy
Galileo Galilei leading figure in the Scientific Revolution, demonstrated that planets revolve around the sun
Issac Newton leading figure in the Scientific Revolution, explained how objects on Earth and in the sky behaved, father of physics
Benjamin Banneker Astronomer and surveyor, free African American from Maryland, also predicted eclipses
Benjamin Franklin famous colonial scientist, publisher of Poor Richards Almanac, proved lightening is a form of electricity
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