Study Guide for Examination 1

TERMS

John Cabot
Spanish Armada
Enclosure
Primogeniture
Queen Elizabeth I
Protestant Reformation
Mercantilism
“Sea Dogs”
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
Joint-stock companies
The Virginia Company of London
Jamestown
Tobacco
Headright system
House of Burgesses
Indentured servants
The Royal Colony of Virginia
mercantilism
The Navigation Acts
Indentured servant
Navigation Act of 1660
William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Puritans
The Puritan Migration
Pilgrims
The Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
“Model of Christian Charity”
Congregationalism
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Connecticut
New Haven
Proprietary Colonies
Royal Colonies
Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam
Loyalist
Fundamental Constitutions
James Oglethorpe
William Penn
Quakers
George Fox
“Inner Light”
Penn’s Charter
Delaware
The Glorious Revolution
William and Mary
The Bill of Rights (1689)
The Whigs
Bacon’s Rebellion
The Dominion of New England
Leisler’s Rebellion
Coode’s Rebellion
Pietism
Evangelicalism
Itinerant ministers
Theodore Jacob Frelinghuysen
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
“Old Lights” & “New Lights”
Baptists

POSSIBLE ESSAY TOPICS

• Religious ideals and values; prepare for comparison
• Whig political thought and its impact
• Comparing settlements

TERMS WITH GEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE

Given the nature of this course, it is important to be able to identify and locate on a map the original colonies and major settlements.  Do not be surprised if you receive a ma that does not contain state boundary lines and you are asked to point out key places or features.