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Sep 22, 1550
Huguenots
French Protestants who were members of the Reformed Church established by John Calvin. -
Powhatan
Paramount chief of Tsenacommacah at the time of the English settlers landing at Jamestown. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
22 members elected by the colony to make up a representative government. -
Plymouth Plantations
102 men, women, and children sailed on the Mayflower to the New World to create the second English settlement. -
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John Winthrop
Governor in Massachusetts, elected 12 times. -
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Pequot Wars
Armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and thier Native American allies. -
Roger Williams
English Protestant theologian who in 1636 founded colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. He started the first Baptist Church in America and organized the first attempt to prohibit slavery in the original 13 colonies. -
Anne Hutchinson
Wife of a Puritan colonist who challenged authority of Puritan ministers and was banished to what is now Rhode Island. -
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Metacomet
Native American leader referred to as King Philip. King Philip’s War in 1675-1678 in which the colonists were successful, was a war between the colonists and Native Americans over land between the two groups. -
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Bacon's Rebellioin
Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
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Slave Codes
Defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. These codes gave slave-owners absolute power over the enslaved -
Glorious Revolution
The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau. -
Cotton Mather
A Puritan minister who was influential in the Salem Witch Trials. -
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Massachusetts Bay Company
English Settlement on the East coast of North America in the 17th century. -
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Quakers
Religious Society of Friends who began a religious movement. -
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Great Awakening
Evangelical religious movement that resulted in the growth of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches. -
John Peter Zenger
German American printer, editor, and publisher, and journalist in New York City. In 1733, he printed a newspaper highly critical of the new governor, William Cosby, and was accused of libel, after eight months in prison a jury found him not guilty and that the truth was a viable defense against libel. -
Stono Rebellion
Armed slave rebellion which resulted in the Negro Act of 1740, which restricted slave assembly, education, and movement. -
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George Whitefield
English Anglican preacher who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and the American colonies. -
William Penn
Founded Pennsylvania
