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chapter one
puritanism, the colonial experience, & the revolution
| front | back |
|---|---|
| charter | written contract issued by a govn't, giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
| joint-stock comarny | a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
| indentured servant | a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America |
| Jamestown | the 1st permanent English settlement in North America |
| House of Burgesses | created in 1619, the 1st representative assembly in the American colonies |
| Jonh Smith | a soldier and adventurer. method- "he that will not work, shall not eat" injured in 1609 in a gunpowder explotion and returned to England |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas to improve relationship between Eglish colonists and the Powhatan in 1614 |
| proprietors | nobles who start colonies |
| Pilgrims | members of a group that rejected he Church of England, sailed to America, and found the Plymouth County |
| puritans | members of a group from England that settled the massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England |
| Anne Hutchinson | beleived that a person could worship God w/o the help of a church, minister or Bible, she challenged church authority |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, whihc called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government |
| Roger Williams | minister in Salem, MA, founded 1st Baptist Church in America. opposed force attendance @ church and the English taking Native American lands by force. |
| REASONS FOR COMING TO THE NEW WORLD [economic] | 1. earcn a better living (get rich) 2. own land (Rule of Primogeniture--> first generation) 3. enclosure movement 4. city life is unpleasent (no running water, thrown waste onto the streets) |
| REASONS FOR COMING TO THE NEW WORLD [political] | 1. share in government 2. national power |
| REASONS FOR COMING TO THE NEW WORLD [religions] | 1. Church of England (the Anglican Church) -- king was said to have divine powers over the church 2. ppl resist church- persicuted 3. Puritans- wanted to "purif" the church 4. separatists (Quebec) 5. Spread religion |
| proprietyary colony | a colony with a single owner |
| Quakers | a person who beleived all ppl shouldlike in peace and harmony |
| James Oglethropre | founded Gerogia as refuge for debaters |
| William Penn | large land owner in American. joined quakers |
| Royal colony | a colony ruled by govenors appointed by a king |
| Peter Stuyvesant | new govenor of New Amsterdam |
| "City Upon the Hill" | puritans wanted to set a standarf of living. and example for the whole world to look at. |
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