History Terms
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- Puritan
- A member of the group that wanted to eliminate all traces of Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England
- Massachusetts Bay
- Winthorp and friends obtained a royal charter for joint-stock enterprise, the Massachusetts Bay Company
- Pilgrims
- Separatists; a member of one of the Puritan groups that, denying the possibility of reform within the church of England, established their own independent congregations
- Mayflower Compact
- An agreement in which they created a civil government and pledged loyalty to the king
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- A written body of laws by which the connecticut settlers would govern themselves
- Roger Williams
- Founder of Providence, Rhode Island
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- English navigator
- Jamestown
- 1607 town named after King James
- Maryland
- Catholics
- Pennsylvania
- Quakers
- William Penn
- Founder of Pennsylvania
- Southern colonies
- Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virgina,
- New England
- Rhode Island, COnnecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Middle Colonies
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York
- French Islands and Spanish Islands
- I don't know really but i'll find out soon enough
- Harvard
- 1636; United States' first private college
- Half-way convent
- A convent mad between the Puritan church and it's members. Stated that in order to become a member you didn't have to go through the grillings.
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Led by planter Nathaniel Bacon because of the hostility between tribes and frontier planters
- John Peter Zenger
- German writer who wrote for the New York Weekly Journal; defendant in a famous trial which set a precedent for freedom of the press
- French and Indian War
- A conflict in North America lasting from 1754 - 1763, that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain. ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain
- Proclamation of 1763
- An order which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
- Treaty of Paris of 1763
- Ended the French and Indian War
- Thomas Paine
- Author of Common Sense, a 47 page essay published in pamplet form attacking King George and the monarchy
- Intolerable Acts
- A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
- Stamp Act
- A 1765 law in which parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
- "No Taxation without Represention"
- colonist sentiment as a result of British Parliament issuing the direct/indirect raxes on the colonial people
- virtual represenation
- What the British told the colonists they had. COlonists did not have actual diplomats as representatives
- Actual Representation
- Colonists wanted actual representation that were chosen by the people to express colonial opinions in Parliamentary decisions