History Chapter 2
House of Burgesses?
Advisory & legislative body was the first self-governing assembly in the Mew World
The belief that outward obedience to scripture is unnecessary to show an inner relationship with?
Antinomianism
Who enforced discipline necessary for the survival of Jamestown?
Captain John Smith
Why did English believers become frustrated with the a Church of England?
Church of England embraced aspects of the reformation while continuing several Roman Catholic practices.
Joint-stock companies?
Investors shared profits without sharing liabilities
The first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
Headrights?
Land grants
Thomas hooker moved three congregations into the Connecticut River valley forming what was called the?
River colony
An indenture was?
A work contract
A colony that was governed by a trade company was a?
Charter colony
Royal colonies?
Controlled directly by the crown = King & councilors appointed governor directly.
The man who dreamed of a "wilderness Zion" in Massachusetts was?
John Winthrop
Proprietary colony?
King appointed a proprietor or proprietors (ultimately responsive to the king) to govern a colony
Charter?
Legal grant for existence
King James I granted charters to what companies, permitting to colonize Virginia?
London & Plymouth Companies
What political document guaranteed certain basic rights to some Englishmen?
Magna Carta
The contract of government drawn up by those on the Mayflower was the?
Mayflower Compact
Charter colony?
One governed by a trade company that received it authorization from the king
Holy experiment refer to the state of?
Pennsylvania
Powhatan's daughter? / Who did she marry?
Pocahontas / John Rolfe
Indian chief?
Powhatan
Reasons to English came to America?
Religious & political freedom, adventure, land & wealth
The settlers from scrooby, England, who moved to holland & finally settled in Massachusetts were called the?
Separatists
Precious stink was a description of this first American cash crop.
Tobacco
Englishman that tried to establish a colony on Roanoke Island?
Walter Raleigh
"Starving time"?
Winter of 1609-10. 90% of the colony died.
Indenture?
Work contract
