1. First successful English colony.
-The exchange of goods and ideas between different cultures. This occurred between the Europeans and Native Americans they encountered in the 15th and 16th centuries.--
First attempted colony by the British in the New World. Site was found abandoned after a two year period. Located near the North Carolina coast.
First successful English colony.
Leader of the Jamestown colony who organized an efficient system of labor.
First elected assembly in the colonies. Was in Jamestown, Virginia. Was a representative form of democracy.
Columbian Exchange
Lost Colony
Jamestown
John Smith
House of Burgesses
First law that guaranteed a colonist the right to practice their religion freely. Passed in Maryland in 1649.
Group of religious refugees who came and established Massachusetts Bay Colony to practice their own religion. They were very intolerant of other views about religion. John Winthrop said they should be a “City upon a Hill”.
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Said the Puritans should be a “City upon a Hill for the world to see.”
Left the Puritan colonies because of his belief in the Separation of Church and State. Founded Rhode Island.
Puritan woman who was banished because of her religious views. Went to Rhode Island.
Toleration Act
Puritans
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Quaker who founded a colony in the U.S. His colony allowed all groups of people to come and practice their own religions as they wished.
Period of religious revival in the early colonial period.
Great preacher of the Great Awakening. Gave the sermon titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
English philosopher who wrote about the natural rights of man and social contract theory.
life, liberty, and Property. These rights were discussed by the English philosopher John Locke. Jefferson used the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
William Penn
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
John Locke
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Natural Rights
Theory of Locke’s that a people and their gov’t have a contract with each other, and if that contract is broken then you have the right to change your gov’t.
War between the British and the French over control of North America. Result was the total control of the U.S. and Canada by the British.
British law that prohibited colonist from crossing the Appalachian Mountains. Meant to protect colonist from Indian attacks and to keep British defense expenses to a minimum. Colonist thought it blocked their growth.
Law that required colonists to pay a tax on all official documents.
Famous idea which explains the reasoning for many of the colonial protests of British taxation during the pre-Revolutionary period.
French and Indian War
No Taxation without Representation
Social Contract
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act
Pre-Revolutionary War group that led the colonists in boycotts and protests of British policies. Samuel Adams was one of its vocal leaders.
Colonial protest in 1770 that ended with the shooting of 5 colonists by British troops. Widely denounced in the colonies as an act of British oppression and aggression.
Colonial Protest of the Townshend Act that created a monopoly on the selling of a particular product. Parliament reacted to this event by passing the Coercive or Intolerable Acts.
Act of Parliament that closed Boston Harbor, placed troops in the city, and took away the basic rights of colonists. It was passed as a reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Also called the Coercive Acts.
Beginning of the Revolutionary War. British marched to try and capture some stored weapons and colonial minutemen met them after being warned by Paul Revere. Apr. 1775
Coercive/ Intolerable Acts
Sons of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Lexington and Concord
Revolutionary War battle where colonist proved they could inflict serious damage to the British.
Leader of the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. President of the Constitutional Convention. First President of the United States.
People who remained committed to the British during the Revolutionary War.
Someone who wanted the colonies to be free and independent of Britain.
Attempt by the Continental Congress to make peace with King George. It was refused and helped lead to the Revolutionary War.
Bunker Hill
George Washington
Loyalists
Patriot
Olive Branch Petition