Friday, January 22, 2010

1. Missionary- a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
2. Viceroy- a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
3. Northwest Passage - a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
4. Samuel De Champlain - French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor
5. charter – a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
6. joint stock company - an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock
7. Powhatan - North American Indian chief in Virginia, father of Pocahontas and founder of the Powhatan Confederacy
8. House of Burgess –
9. Royal Colony - a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
10. Proprietary Colony - any of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government.
11. Puritan - a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship
12. Separatist – a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
13. Pilgrim - a person who journeys, esp. a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
14. Mayflower Compact - an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
15. John Winthrop - English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
16. Pequot War – a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians under their chief, Sassacus, that resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
17. King Phillip’s War - was an armed conflict between Native american inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676.
18. Bacon’s Rebellion -an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.
19. Pocahontas - American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
20.Walter Raleigh - English explorer and writer, a favorite of Elizabeth I.
21. Indentured servant - the daughter of King Henry VIII, was born in 1533 and became Queen of England and Queen of Ireland until her death in 1603. Known as The Virgin Queen, since she never married, the New World’s Virginia was named for her.
22. Triangular trade - a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar
23. Magna Carta - the “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
24. English Bill of Rights – Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
25. Salutary neglect - was an undocumented, though long-standing British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. Prime Minister Robert Walpole stated that "If no restrictions were placed on the colonies, they would flourish
26. Mercantilism - mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
27. Navigation Act - any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
28. Enlightenment - a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.
29. Benjamin Franklin - 1706–90, American statesman, diplomat, author, scientist, and inventor.
30.George Washington - 1732–99, U.S. general and political leader: 1st president of the U.S. 1789–97.
French Indian War - A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was then underway in Europe. In a battle between British and French forces near Quebec City in Canada, the British gained control of all of Canada.
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32. Pontiac’s Rebellion - was a war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763).
Proclamation of 1763 -
33. Albany Plan of Union
34. Stamp Act
35. John Adams
36. Patrick Henry
37. Sons of Liberty
38. non-importation agreement
39. Boston Massacre
40. committee of correspondence
41. Boston Tea Party
42. Intolerable Acts
43. First Continental Congress
44. militia
45. Loyalist
46. Second Continental Congress
47. George Washington
48. Thomas Paine
49. Declaration of Independence
50.Thomas Jefferson
51. Natural Rights
52. Cornwallis
53. Yorktown
54. Saratoga

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