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John Smith
English explorer who helps provide law and order to the Jamestown colony.
Lord Calvert
Founder of the Maryland colony.
William Penn
Quaker founder of the Pennsylvania colony.
John Rolfe
Agriculturalist who develops a cash crop of tobacco in Jamestown helping create a profitable colony.
Powhatan
Native tribe living along the James River near Jamestown.
Puritans
Religious group in New England desiring to purify the Anglican Church of its Catholic traditions.
Separatists
Similar to Puritans; however, they wish to break away from the Anglican church.
John Winthrop
Puritan founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wishing to create a “City on a Hill.”
Nathaniel Bacon
Virginia Settler challenging the laws of the Virginia Governor William Berkeley.
Jonathan Edwards
First Great Awakening preacher known for his “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon.
George Whitefield
Powerful speaker and English Preacher during the First Great Awakening encouraging Christian beliefs throughout the colonies.
Roger Williams
Separatist who was banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his dissenting views.
Anne Hutchinson
A woman banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her dissenting views.
John Peter Zenger
New York journalist accused of libel for his critical views of the governor but later acquitted. His acquittal was seen as support for freedom of the press.
Act of Toleration
A law passed in Maryland allowing religious freedom for any Christian group that believed in the divinity of Jesus.
Holy Experiment
Quaker colony of Pennsylvania.
Jamestown
The first permanent English colony founded in Virginia, 1607.
Mayflower Compact
Governing document for the Plymouth colony.
King Philip's War
Fierce battles between the New England colonies and the local Natives led by Metacom (King Philip).
Bacon’s Rebellion
Rebellion of back-country Virginia settlers protesting the harsh, aristocratic policies of Governor Berkeley.
Joint Stock Company
An organization of investors seeking profits from exploration.
Mercantilism
Economic system based on a favorable balance of trade between the mother country and its colonies in order to maintain gold and silver within the empire.
Navigation Acts
Laws passed by England to uphold the economic policy of mercantilism.
Headright System
Law passed by England to encourage settlement in the new world by offering settlers fifty acres of land for every individual they brought to the new world.
Triangular Trade
System of trade between the New World, Europe, and Africa in which resources and rum were traded for manufactured goods and slaves.
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