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Mercantilism

enhanced positions of capitalists, increased competition, nation as a whole was the principal actor in the economy

Martin Luther

Protestant Reformation in Germany 1517, excommunicated by pope in 1520, not revolting trying to reform

John Calvin

predestination was central to Puritan faith of early New England, French Theologian, rejecting human institutions

Jamestown

first English settlement in New World in Virginia 1607, failed before for 30 years, under Queen Elizabeth 1

Captain John Smith


"headright system"

50-acre grants of land, new settlers could acquire, paying for immigrant=additional headrights, the larger the family the more land, 1 shilling per headright a year

Sir William Berkeley

Virginia 1642, governor, virtual autocrat, prohibited white settlement

Bacon's Rebellion

Bacon disagreed with Berkeley's politics, killed Indians, led towards enslaved blacks

Plymouth colony

create community-based on spreading the gospel of the kingdom of christ

Anne Hutchison

powerful religious figure in her own right, support from merchants, young men, Winthrop reelection prevented, accused of heresy, defy clerical authority, convicted of sedition and banished

Stono Rebellion

South Carolina in 1739, app. 100 Africans rose up, seized weapons, killed whites and attempted to escape south to Florida

"primogenture"

the passing of all inherited properly to firstborn son

Great Awakening



began in the 1730s, climax 1740s, break away from constraints and renew relations with God

Enlightenment

suggested people had control over their lives and control their societies, world could be explained and could be structured along scientific lines, didn't challenge religion

Jonathan Edwards

New England congregationalist, a deeply orthodox Puritan, attacked the new doctrines, preached a new the Traditional Puritan ideas of the absolute sovereignty of God, predestination and salvation by God's grace alone