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33 Cards in this Set
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Glorious Revolution
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the events of 1688--89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 - 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Joint- stock company
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A company that pooled people's saving to increase investment and reduce risk.
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Richard Hakluyt
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Was an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works
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Avarice
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extreme greed for material wealth.
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John Smith
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English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas
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Sir John Rolfe
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was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.
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Sir Edwin Sandys
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was an English statesman and one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia .
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Viginia Company
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The Virginia Company refers collectively to a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on April 10 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.
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Headright
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A headright is a legal grant of land to settlers
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House of Burgesses
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the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia
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Sir George Calvert
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Proprietor Governor of Newfoundland
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Separatists
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a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
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William Bradford
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was an English leader of the Separatist settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
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Mayflower Compact
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A signed agreement to ensure peace between the two groups carried by the Mayflower to America.
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Squanto
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A Patuxet Indian who endured slavery in Spain before returning to America via England.
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Puritans
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a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
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John Winthrop
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obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles for the Massachusetts Bay Company and led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630.
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Congreationalism
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system of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing
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Antinomianism
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the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws
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Peter Stuyvesant
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the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England
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George Fox
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English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
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Freeman
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a person who is not a serf or a slave
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Roger Williams
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English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism
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Anne Hutchinson
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American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)
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William Penn
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Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania
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Charter of Liberties
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The Charter of Liberties, also called the Coronation Charter, was a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his ascension to the throne in 1100.
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted in March 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land in between what is now Virginia and Florida.
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James Oglethorpe
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James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) was a British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia
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