ANNE HUTCHINSON

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America, but decided to move to a better area and was killed in a storm on his way home

John Cabot

English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage

John Smith

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia

King Philip's War

1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.

Anne Hutchinson

A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.

Puritans

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

Primogeniture

A system of inheritance in which the eldest son in a family received all of his father's land. The nobility remained powerful and owned land, while the 2nd and 3rd sons were forced to seek fortune elsewhere. Many of them turned to the New World for their financial purposes and individual wealth.

Ponce de Leon

Discovered Florida

John Wesley

English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)

Quakers

English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania

London (Virginia) Company

Group of London investors who obtained charter, and sent ships to Jamestown, 2 crash, others got sick 1609-10 winter was "starving time". Months later they started to sail back but met De La Warr's English ship and turned back. Warr was brutal. Governor Dale starts incentivizing w/private property, which is successful, creating expansion and new settlements.

Roger Williams

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.

Christopher Columbus

He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

John Rolfe

Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia

Separatists

People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known as Pilgrims.

John Winthrop

Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill"

Conquistadores (20)

Sixteenth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires. (3 Gs)

Columbian Exchange

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

City on a Hill (John Winthrop)

believed Puritans had a covenant with God to lead new religious experiment in the New World; his strong leadership helped the colony to succeed

"Antinomianism" means

taking license to sin because of divine grace