Chapter 4 - English Colonization

1620- Founded in ________, Massachusetts by Separatists.

1636- ________ is founded to educate ministers.

1619- 1st representative assembly established in ________ to protect property + rights.

________- Puritans coming to America fleeing religious persecution.

________ have equal rights to Englishmen to England.

During her reign: Established Protestantism in England; defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588; maintained peace inside her previously divided country; and created an environment where the arts flourished.

An English explorer, sea captain, privateer, naval officer, and politician

An English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer, and a favorite courtier of the English Queen Elizabeth I

The right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son

A business owned by its investors, with each investor owning a share based on the amount of stock purchased

A Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England

1st permanent English settlement, with one of the longest continuous histories among the American states, dating from the settlement of Jamestown in the early 17th century

The first governor of Virginia appointed by the Virginia Company of London

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia

A contract between two individuals, in which one person worked not for money but to repay an indenture, or loan, within a set time period

Allowed people — considered legal property — to be bought, sold and owned forever

An English colonial venture in America from 1620 to 1691 at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith

Originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

The first English chartered colony whose board of governors did not reside in England

A spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged male authority—and, indirectly, acceptable gender roles—by preaching to both women and men and by questioning Puritan teachings about salvation

An English-born American Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island

Founded by Lord Baltimore as a refuge for Roman Catholics

An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"

An English writer and religious thinker belonging to the Religious Society of Friends, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

Founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers