APUSH Period 2 - simplified

French explorer who had friendly business relations with Native Americans; mostly with beaver pelts

Englishman employed by the Dutch East India Company to find a Northwest Passage to Asia in 1609; sailed into New York Harbor

Town in Manhattan which the Dutch set as the capital of their New Netherland in 1625

August 1680; intended to drive out the Spanish so they could restore their independence.

The Protestant Church of England

Exclusive rights and privileges granted by Parliament

Charters allowed him to found colonies in North America at his own expense

In 1585, he sent ~100 male colonists to Roanoke

a small island off North Carolina’s coast considered to be part of Virginia

1676; demonstrated the problems of controlling former indentured servants

A new member of the House of Burgesses; helped fellow rural settlers form a citizens' militia

Virginia's governor; ruled the colony based on the interests of the wealthy tobacco planters.

Part of the Triangular Trade which transported Africans across the ocean to the New World.

Run by investors in London and King James I in 1606; it was granted the right to colonize and govern Virginia

Led alliance of Virginia Indians; carried out a massacre in Jamestown, killing 347 colonists in 1622

Virginian leader who introduced his fellow farmers to tobacco cultivation in 1611

A colony in which the crown allotted land and governmental command to one person (ex: Maryland)

Pilgrims drafted to establish a body that would lead the colony; the first written form of government in the modern-day US

Puritan families ventured across the Atlantic Ocean, seeking religious freedoms and new beginnings

Prominent Puritan leader who founded a settlement at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636

The first "constitution" in colonial America; established the Hartford government in 1639.

mandated elections in which male property owners and freemen could vote every three years

Founded Pennsylvania; where he promoted freedom of religion; and where American Indians and settlers would be able to coexist in peace

A wealthy reformer; founded Georgia in 1733 as a haven for those who were imprisoned in England

In 1651, Parliament passed this, which intended to replace Dutch control of international trade.

His sermons encouraged people to repent their sins and obey God's word in order to earn mercy.

Mass hysteria in Salem in 1692; 20 people executed, 5 died in prison; traditional Puritan image was damaged beyond repair