APUSH 1.2

Half-Way Covenant

Allowed baptism and a "halfway" membership in the church. Ancestry, not religious conversion, became the pathway to inclusion among the elect.

William Penn

Founded Pennsylvania as a colony of spiritual freedom, believed the Indians and colonists could live in harmony, established the west jersey concessions (religious liberty, broad suffrage, elected assembly)

Puritans

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

Great Migration

Puritan emigration to Massachusetts (Represented less than 1/3 of English emigration.)

Squanto

Rescued from slavery by a local priest, learned english in London, returned to Massachusetts. Served as an interpreter for the pilgrims, taught them where to fish and how to plant corn, forged an alliance with Massasoit.

Quakers

Society of friends, believed in equality and liberty, repudiated slavery, pacifists

Celilius Calvert

Son of king Charles I. Proprietor of Maryland with full, free, and absolute power.

King Philip's War

1675. longest and bloodiest conflict between settlers and natives in 17th century, native Wampanoags under KIng Phillip ( Indian Chieftain) resisted England settlement on their land, attacked/destroyed English settlements. English joined with iroquois to defeat them

Roger Williams

Believed in separation of church and state, established the colony of rhode island (became a beacon of religious freedom)

Thomas Hooker

Established hartford and new haven, which became the colony of Connecticut

John Winthrop

First puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Believed that true freedom depended on subjection to authority.

Mayflower Compact

First written frame of government in the united states, where the adult men going onshore agreed to obey just and equal laws put in place by representatives they chose.

John Rolfe

He was an English settlers at Jamestown, married Pocahontas, successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cured it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony

Anne Hutchinson

Held religious meetings in her home, was put on trial for violating puritan doctrine, and banished. Died in NYC in an indian war.

Metacom

The Wampanoag leader (known to colonists as King Philip) considered by colonists to have been the leader of the bloody 1675 Indian uprising in southern New England.

Mercantilism

The government should regulate the economy to promote national power.

Navigation Acts

The most valuable colonial goods (tobacco, sugar) had to be transported in english ships and sold initially in english ports, and imports had to go through england and pay taxes first.