History Study Gd. 2
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- Proprietary colony
- colony where governer has right to set whatever rules laws etc he wants
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- colony founded in Massachusetts established in 1630 by puritans
- Lord Baltimore
- owned marlyand made it Englands first proprietary colony , proprietor could govern colony however he wished
- Starving Time
- time in Jamestown when people ate rats, dogs, people, almost everyone died
- Restoration
- when parliament elected a king for the first time is known as
- Powhatan Confederacy
- group of indians led by chief powhatan which traded with the english
- Council of the INdies
- to govern new world spanish king created council which advised him and watched over all colonies.
- Virginia Company
- Charter by James I of england for investors so they could plant colonies in virginia
- Giovanni da Verrazano
- french explorer sent by Kng Francis I of France to find Northwest Passage
- Francisco Pizarro
- SPanish army captain who explored south americas west coast. IN 1526 he landed in Peru and took over the incas
- Maryland Toleration Act
- Lord Baltimore supported king against parliament which caused civil war with protestants so he made this act in 1649 that granted religious toleration to all christians in MAryland and was intended to protect catholics
- Fundamental orders of Connecticut
- Massachusetts and Conneticut joined together to form their own government system writing the first constitution . It allowed all men to vote
- Headright System
- system by virginia company to get settlers to sponser other settlers in return they get 50 acres
- Jacque Cartier
- french explorer sent by King, mapped St. Lawrence River
- Walter Raleigh/ Roanoke
- had Queen Elizabeth send two charters to the outer banks founding them and she named them after him
- Rene-Robert Cavalier de Las Salle
- french, first to travel to end of mississippi river and claimed louisiana
- Malinche
- woman translator with the spanish cortez liked her and had her baptized giving her a new name Marina
- House of Burgesses
- the new virginia government including a governer, 6 councilers, and 20 representatives 2 from each colonys 10 towns
- Protestant Reformation
- after the dispute between henry VIII protestantism was spreading everywhere causeing people to convert
- Martin Luther
- German monk who started the Protestant Reformation
- Joint-stock companies
- pooled the money of many investors this enabled the company to raise large amounts of money for big projects
- Squanto
- native american who helped Pilgrims at Plymouth rock grow corn and survive and started a peace treaty with his tribe the Wampanoag
- Jeronimo de Aguilar
- a shipwrecked sailor who was picked up in the Yucatan Peninsula by Hernan Cortez who knew the local language and helped Cortez conquer the people of Yucatan
- Great MIgration
- because of the economic depression in England growing worse and worse many people left the country by 1643 20000 settlers had left and arrived in New England
- Lord De La Warr
- Appointed leader of Jamestown by virginia company who saved the settlers during the harsh winter and famine after john smith had left
- Anne Hutchinson
- a woman who arrived in boston , devout puritan, she claimed to know which ministers had salvation and was exiled she then founded her own colony Portsmouth
- Enclosure movement
- landowners in england realized they should breed sheep to make money so they converted their estates into sheep farms by enclosin their land and evicting the tenants, created thousands of poor unemployed beggars
- Jon Rolfe
- Colonist who experimented with tobacco and started selling it
- John Winthrop
- A wealthy attorney, stockholder in massachusetts bay company and was convinced there was no future in england for puritans and led many puritans to the New World "newengland"
- Louis Joliet and Jacque
- French fur trader and jesuit priest, mapped the mississippi river
- Seperatists
- group of puritans who broke from Anglican Church to form their own congregations
- Hernan Cortes
- spanish explorer who traveled to cuba, and mexico. Where he would overtake the Aztec civilization.
- Puritans
- People who wanted to purify the church
- James Oglethorpe
- a wealthy member of Parliament thought there were too many people in prison in england so he asked King George for colony where poor could start over .
- Samuel de Champlain
- french royal geographer to help colonize North American , helped establish Noca Scotia
- Roger Williams
- 1631, young minister who arrived in Boston became a teacher in salem, he challenged puritan authority and in 1635 he was exiled and he went to form his own colony which would be called providence
- William Bradford
- Plymouth colony leader who talked about how they first constructed a common house ad then how a plague swept through the colony sparing only 50 settlers
- John Calvin
- suggested neither kings or bishops should control church ( against protestats) Many of the first english settlers shared his ideas
- John Smith
- Captain in Jamestown who became allies with Chief Powhatan and led Jamestown
- William Penn
- Admiral Penns son who inherited all his money and the king was in debt to he was a quaker . 1680 he petitioned the king for a grant of land between NEw York and MAryland to settle the debt.
- Conquistadors
- spanish conquerors and warriors. Men who led the expeditions sent by Cortes
- "CIty on a Hill"
- John winthrop calls himself and the puritans this on the ship to New England because of what they are doing everyone will be watching them
- Encomienda System
- After defeating the Aztec Cortez would reward his men with control over some of the Aztecs towns
- Anglican Church
- the catholic church in england became this.... after the reformation
- Jamestown
- founded by virginia company in virginia on the James river