APUSH Chapter 2

an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales

(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

Common law that established the birthright of the oldest son to inherit the family estate.

A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

practice of fencing or enclosing common lands into individual holdings

belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.

English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

This was the re-establishment of the monarchy in England under Charles II. Both houses of Parliament were restored but the religious tensions still were present in England

the revolution against James II. Pariament wins. Mary and Willliam of Orange rule. Grant the Massachusetts colony their charter back

granted Puritans, but not Catholics, the right of free public worship

First permanent English settlement in North America

Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia

Mayor of Jamestown, put all of the lazy people to work during the summer months so that they would have food during the winter

daughter of powhatan, acted as an intermediary between settlers and Indians

A man who came over to Virginia was given 50 acres, and was given an additional 50 for each person he brought or sent over

Governor of Virginia at the time of Bacon's rebellion

1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness.

A colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by a king or queen

founded the colony of Maryland as a refuge for Catholics; also known as Lord Baltimore

a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620

sub-group of the Puritans who vowed to break completely with the Church of England

Formal agreement made by 41 Pilgrim leaders prior to landing at Plymouth to abide by laws of their own devising.

An agreement between 2 nations, people,ect.

A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks.

Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization.

Colony settled by the Puritans. It was very strict and eventually becomes the city of Boston.

As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony,he was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.

He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.

She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.

A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut because he believed that the governor and other officials had too much power. He wanted to set up a colony in Connecticut with strict limits on government.

The expansion of English settlement led to wars against the native peoples. In this war, 700 Pequots were killed by the colonists and their Indian allies.

Series of assaults by King Philip on English settlements in New England. The attacks slowed the westward migration of New England settlers for several decades.

War in the Carolinas from 1711 through 1713 between the Tuscarora Indians and the colonists.

caused by the settlers charging Indians high prices and cheating them

Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland, even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)

a kinship system in which only the mother's relatives are significant

A vast Dutch feudal estates fronting the Hudson River in early 1600s. They were granted to promoters who agreed to settle 50 people on them.

a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam

a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations)

Artilcles written to give New Holland to the Brittish. Becomes New York

a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660