Mrs. Lahey- Mr. Karaban Colonial Test
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- John Peter Zenger
- A New York editor whose trial for seditious libel backfired on the government; the jury found that truth was a defense for libel.
- Connecticut
- A northern colony
- Bifocals
- glasses that can be used for reading and seeing objects far away at the same time
- Virginia
- A southern colony
- MayFlower Compact
- this document established the first bases in the new world for written rights
- slaves
- peolpe who are owned and forces to work by someone else. The lowest form of the social class in the colonies.
- Puritans
- Had the idea to make public schools in Boston. Wanted to separate from the Church of England.
- John Rolfe
- He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
- Roger Williams
- A puritan who becomes banned from Massachusetts for his radical speaking saying that the puritans were wrong to take land form the Natives without payment. He later establishes providence, also known Rhode Island
- Indentured Servant
- A migrant to British colonies in the Americas who paid for passage by agreeing to work for a set term ranging from four to seven years. (p. 486)
- Gentry
- The upper class of society in the colony
- Anne Hutchinson
- a Puritan who taught religious tolerance. Her prominence was remarkable because women were second class citizens in Puritan society. She fled to Rhode Island.
- libel
- publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation
- Jamestown
- first permanent colony for the British, original settlers suffered from disease, economy stabled after tobacco was cultivated; this colony was burnt to the ground twice
- Delaware
- A middle colony
- Enlightenment
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- John Winthrop
- He gave the speech "city upon a hill" in 1629. The idea of creating a utopian alternative to Old England
- Patroon
- Landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled like a king over large areas of land
- Pocahontas
- a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)
- Great Awakening
- a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
- William Penn
- Founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681 and shocked his family by joining the Quakers.
- John Edwards
- Preacher in New England who helped set off the Great Awakening
- Pilgrims
- a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Newcomers to America who wanted nothing but to practice their religion freely.
- Benjamin Franklin
- An outstanding enlightenment figure who embraced the nothion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reasoning.