US History MidTerm study

• King James I established a settlement with a royal charter.
• Members of different native americans tribes tried to capture british forts and tried to attack british settlements.
• Powhatan was chief of the Algonquians, helped the colonists by giving them corn in exchange for copper.
• John Smith saved the settlers from death, issued a no work no food policy.
• Pocahontas was Powhatan's daughter who married John Rolfe in return for a treaty of peace.
• John Rolfe introduced a form of tobacco to Virginia and was a leading colonist.
• Led to the survival of Jamestown.
• Sir Francis Drake brought tobacco to England and it led to the first profit from Virginia.
• Opechancanough was Powhatan’s brother, led a rebellion against the colonists.
• Calvet Family were very powerful family that supported the english king.
• John Calvin led the ideas of the calvinist and the Puritans.
• William Bradford led the pilgrims to Plymouth.
• John Winthrop established the city on a hill which is known as Salem.
• Benjamin Franklin is a successful printer who wrote almanacs and books along with the enlightenment.
• Jonathan Edwards was an evangelical preacher who used the image of an angry god to inspire listeners to repent for their sins.
• Robert Dinwiddie was the governor of virginia who sent troops to evict the french.
• Pontiac was the chief who led pontiac’s rebellion
• George Washington young military officer
• Thomas Hooker was the founder of hartford, was a minister that disagreed with the policy of restricting suffrage to male church members.
• Roger Williams belonged to the congregation of Salem and believed in the separation of the church and state, purchased Land from the near to the narragansetts and founded the town of Providence
• Roger Williams believed that the colonists didn't have a right to Native American land.
• Anne Hutchinson is the wife of a minister who criticized some of the minister's teachings was excommunicated and moved to Rhode Island.
• William Penn was the founder of Pennsylvania and created this separate government called The Society of Friends run by Quakers
• wanted Pennsylvania to be a holy experiment with religious freedom.
• Joint-Stock Company is a company run by a group of investors who share the profits and loans
• The Virginia Company was the first permanent english settlement in North America
• Headright grants were large plantations offered in exchange for more settlers to come to Virginia.
• House of Burgesses was colonial Virginia's representative assembly.
• Burgesses were landowners elected to be a part of the house of burgesses.
• Royal colony is an English colony with direct control from the king.
• Proprietary colony granted to a group or individual by the crown.
• An Indentured Servant is an individual who contracted to serve a master for a period of 4-7 years in exchange for travel to America
• Freedom dues were tools indentured servants were given to help them start life after they were freed
• The Mayflower Compact was a framework for self-government.
• Massachusetts bay Company was the colony of massachusetts bay
• The Salem witch trials was a time where Women were distrusted during a series of Witchcraft scares
• The women who mostly were accused were unmarried childless or were assertive and independent
• Fort Duquesne is a French Fort captured by the English
• Instead of farming, New England colonists had trading fishing and artisans
• The New England colonies had good education and healthy environment