APUSH Ch 3 (The Rise of Colonial America 1650-1750)
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Massachusetts Bay colony
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1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.
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John Winthrop
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1588-1649 First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
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A Model of Christian Charity
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Winthrop's sermon which called for the need for the group to be \"a city upon a hill\" (1630)
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Cecilius Calvert
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was given a charter by King Charles I, founded Maryland (also known as \"Lord Baltimore\")
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Roger Williams
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He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
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Harvard College
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First college in New World. Established by Puritans to train ministers. (1636)
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Anne Hutchinson
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She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.
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Half-Way Covenant
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In 1662, Puritans permitted the baptized children of church members into a \"half-way\" membership in the congregation and allowed them to baptize their children; they still could not vote or take communion.
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Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette
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took a portage from the Mississippi to the Great Lakes
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King Philip's War
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1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness.
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Salem Witch Trials
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1692-1693 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress
