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French Protestants who were members of the Reformed Church established by John Calvin.
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Paramount chief of Tsenacommacah at the time of the English settlers landing at Jamestown.
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22 members elected by the colony to make up a representative government.
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102 men, women, and children sailed on the Mayflower to the New World to create the second English settlement.
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Governor in Massachusetts, elected 12 times.
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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.
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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.
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Wife of a Puritan colonist who challenged authority of Puritan ministers and was banished to what is now Rhode Island.
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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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Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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Defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. These codes gave slave-owners absolute power over the enslaved
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The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau.
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A Puritan minister who was influential in the Salem Witch Trials.
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English Settlement on the East coast of North America in the 17th century.
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Religious Society of Friends who began a religious movement.
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Evangelical religious movement that resulted in the growth of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches.
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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.
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Armed slave rebellion which resulted in the Negro Act of 1740, which restricted slave assembly, education, and movement.
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English Anglican preacher who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and the American colonies.
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Founded Pennsylvania
