Colonial America Test

Benjamin Franklin

An outstanding enlightenment figure who embraced the nothion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reasoning.

Mayflower Compact

this document established the first bases in the new world for written rights

John Edwards

Preacher in New England who helped set off the Great Awakening

Ben Franklin

Scientist and inventor. Invented bifocals, odometer, and elecrtricity experiments.Most popular publication was Poor Richard's Almanac. Published clever quotes. Example of Enlightenment spirit.

Pocahontas

a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)

Anne Hutchinson

a Puritan who taught religious tolerance. Her prominence was remarkable because women were second class citizens in Puritan society. She was killed by Indians in New York.

Puritans

a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Enlightenment

a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions

Great Awakening

a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s

John Peter Zenger

A New York editor whose trial for seditious libel backfired on the government; the jury found that truth was a defense for libel.

Roger Williams

A puritan who becomes banned from Massachusetts for his radical speaking saying that the puritans were wrong to take land form the Natives without payment. He later establishes providence, also known Rhode Island

John Winthrop

He gave the speech & quote "city upon a hill" in 1629. The idea of creating a utopian alternative to Old England

John Rolfe

He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.

Jamestown

first permanent colony for the British, original settlers suffered from disease, economy stabled after tobacco was cultivated; this colony was burnt to the ground twice

Puritans

had the idea to make public schools in Boston

Slaves

people who are owned and forces to work by someone else.