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John Smith

Set rules for Jamestown

Powhatan

North American tribes in Virginia

Virginia House of Burgesses

First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America

John Winthrop

Puritan Lawyer, Founded Massachusetts Bay Colony

Great Migration

Movement of African-American slaves from the South to the West

Roger Williams

Protestant theologian who was an early part of religious freedom and the separation of church and state

William Penn

An English real estate entrepreneur and early Quaker. Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. Also supported democracy and religious freedom, and had a good relation with the Lenape Indians.

James OgleThorpe

British General, Member of Parliament, and founded Georgia. Wanted to resettle the poor of Britain in the New World.

Triangular Trade

A three piece trade between America, England, and Africa. African slaves went to America, American crops and goods went to England, and English manufactered goods went to Africa.

Ben Franklin

A founding father, thought of as " the first American", major figure in the American Enlightenment. Inventor and scientist.

Great Awakening

a religious movement among the American colonial protestants in the 1730s and 1740s`

John Peter Zenger

A journalist in New York. Printed the New York Weekly Journal. Was a defendant in a landmark legal case.

Cortez

Spanish conquistador that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

Virginia Company

a Joint Stock company that establishes settlements on the coast of North America

Starving Time

A period of starvation in the winter of 1609-1610. 60-500 Colonists died.

Headright System

Created in 1618 Jamestown, a headright was 1-1000 acres, was made to attract new settlers to the region and bring workers

Puritans

Main leaders of emigration to New England in 1629

City on a Hill

John Winthrop's speech about Christian charity

Holy Commonwealth

Puritism

King Philips War

Conflict between the Native Americans of present-day New England and the English colonists and their native allies. English win when Philip was asassinated, the remaining Indians faced servitude and disease.

Anne Hutchinson

A Puritan spiritual adviser, important in the Antinomian Controversy

Quakers

The Society of Friends, had missionary efforts in the Americas, became involve in Pennsylvania politics.

Plantation/cash crops

Tobacco, rice, indigo

Bacon's Rebellion

An armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley

Manifest Destiny

Inevitable expansion of the U.S

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