APUSH Key Term quiz- Chapter 2/3

Edict of Nantes

Edict of Nantes

• 1598

• Limited toleration to french protestants

• in France

Voyageurs

• singing/paddle swinging

• recruited Indians to fur buisness

• French Explorers

Protestant refromation

• religious conflict in Europe broke with Roman Catholic Church in 1530

Roanoke Island

• off coast of Virgina

• established in 1587

• lost colony

• financed by Raleigh

• all settlers disapeared

• failed British settlement

Spanish Armada

• English defeated Spanish navy

• marked start of English dominance of the seas

Primogeniture

• only eldest sons were eligible to inherit land estates

Joint Stock Company

• forerunner of modern corporation

• gather savings from middle class to support finance colonies

Virgina Company

• joint stock company

• transported people who founded Jamestown

Charter

• document given to the founders of a colony by the monarch

Jamestown

• 1st permanent english settlement

• Tobacco popular

First Anglo-Powhatan War

• pitted the English settlers at Jamestown against an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians led by Powhatan

Second Anglo-Powhatan War

• fought from 1622 until 1632

• pitting English colonists in Virginia against the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco, led by Opitchapam and his brother

Iroquois Confederacy

• Consisted of Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, the Cayagas and the Senecas.

Elizabeth I

• Protestant Queen of England, made Protestism dominant in England

Sir Francis Drake

• Pirated Spanish ships for gold.

• Circumnavigated the globe

Sir Walter Raleigh

• organized an expidition that first landed in 1585 on NC's Roanoake Island

James I

• English King that granted the charter to the Virginia Colony.

Captain John Smith

• 1605, took over Jamestown and whipped the colonists into discipline

Powhatan

• Indians near Jamestown

Pocahontas

• "saved" John Smith as a sign of peace between the two groups

• Married to John Rolfe which ended the first anglo powhatan war

Lord de la Warr

• English leader at the time (Delaware)

• given orders by Virginia Company to start war (First Powhatan War)

John Rolfe

• married Pocohantas

• prosper with tobacco

Hiawatha

• United Iroquois confederacy

House of Burgesses

• the first legislative body in colonial Virginia

Act of toleration

• legal document that allowed all Christian religions in Maryland

Barbados Slave Code

• established that black slaves would be treated as chattel property in the island's court.

Calvinism

• Set of beliefs that the Puritans followed

• John Calvin preached virtues of simple worship, strict morals, pre-destination and hard work

Predestination

• Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned

Puritans

• group of religious reformists who wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church

Separatists

• Puritans that wanted to separate from England

Mayflower Compact

• contract made by the voyagers on the Mayflower

• form a simple government where majority ruled.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

• One of the first settlements in New England

• major Puritan colony

Great English Migration

• migration of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands

antinomianism

• a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law

• created by Anne Hutchinson

Fundamental Orders

• first constitution (Conn) in the colonies and was a beginning for the other states' charters and constitutions.

Pequot War

• an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts and their Native American allies

New England Confederation

• Formed to provide for the defense of the four New England colonies

Navigation Laws

• colonies were only allowed to trade with England.

Dominion of New England

• New England, in conjunction with New York and New Jersey, consolidated under the royal authority - James II

• Charters and self rule were revoked

Glorious Revolution

• a bloodless coup in which James II was replaced on the throne in late 1688 by his daughter Mary and her husband

Salutary neglect

• British policy of ignoring the american colonies

Quakers

• believe in equality of all peoples

• Settled in Pennsylvania.

James Oglethorpe

• Founder and governor of the Georgia colony

Lord Baltimore

• Established Maryland as a haven for Catholics

William Bradford

• Leader of the Seperatist Pilgrims who established the first English colony in Massachusetts

John Winthrop

• 1st Governor of Massachusettes Bay Colony

• Puritan

• didn't like religious dissenters like Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson

• didn´t believe in following gods plan

• Banished from the Puritan Colony

Roger Williams

• Founded Rhode Island

Sir Edmund Andros

• Governor of the Dominion of New England

William Penn

• Prominent Quaker activist who founded Pennsylvania

• established friendly relations with neighboring Indian tribes

• promises of economic opportunity and ethnic and religious toleration