Notes: Unit 1 Chapters 2-5

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Unit 1: Chapter 2

Religious conflict developed after King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s = start of the Protestant Reformation

Sir Walter Raleigh organized the first expedition that landed in 1585 on NC's Roanoke Island

colony mysteriously vanished

1588: "Invincible Armada" attempted to invaded England

storm destroyed it, beginning of the end of the end of Spanish imperial dreams

Primogeniture: only the eldest sons were able to inherit land estates

Joint-Stock Company: enabled investors to pool their capital

1606: Virginia Company received a charter from King James 1 to settle in the New World.

Main attraction: gold with strong desire o find a passage through America to the Indies

Charter: significant document; guarantees same rights as Englishmen to overseas settlers

Virginia Company ships landed near the mouth of the Chesapeake bay

May 24, 1607: settlement of Jamestown

Died from: Disease, malnutrition, starvation

Virginia was saved by Captain John Smith

Pocahontas = intermediary between the Indians and settlers

1st Anglo-Powhatan War = Lord de la Warr declared war on the Powhatan

2nd Anglo-Powhatan War = Native Americans last effort to dislodge the Indians

John Rolfe = father of the tobacco industry

Virginia's prosperity was built on tobacco

1619: first arrival of africans into the New World

House of Burgesses: an assembly that was the first of many mini parliaments and began self government

Barbados slave code: denied most fundamental rights to slave and gave masters complete control

Tuscarora War: Tuscarora Indians attacked and were crushed with hundreds of them being sold into slavery

Yamasee Indians = were also defeated and scattered after a similar altercation

Chapter 3

Martin Luther = German friar who iginited the fire of the protestant reformation

Calvinism: dominant theological credo to New England Puritans and other American settler

God is all-powerful and all-knowing

Humans are weak and wicked

Predestination: God knew who was going to heaven and hell and nothing could change the marked destiny

Conversion: the receipt of God's free gift of saving grace

Intense identifiable personal experience where God revealed their heavenly destiny

Puritans: total purification of the church

Separatists: vowed to break away entirely from the church

Great Migration: many refugees left England and went to the newly formed colonies

Antinomianism: high heresy where Anne Hutchinson stated that a holy life was not a sure sign of salvation and that the truly saved didn't need to obey the law of God or Man

Fundamental Orders: modern constitution which established a regime controlled by citizens

First Thanksgiving = 1621= Wampanoag chieftan signed treaty with Plymouth

Pequot War: after hostility b/w english and indian exploded English attacked a Pequot Village and virtually wiped out the tribe

King Philip's War: 1675 = Metacom assaulted english villages

Slowed westward march of English settlement

Drastically reduce New England Indian population

Navigation Laws: reflected the intensifying colonial rivalries. sought to stitch England's overseas possessions more tightly to the motherland by throttling American trade with other countries not ruled by England

Glorious Revolution: dethroned catholic King James, enthroned Protestant William III Mary II

Chapter 4

Head-right system: used to encourage importation of indentured servants and whoever paid the passage received fifty acres of land

Bacon's Rebellion 1676:

Causes: resented gov William Berkley friendly policies toward the Indians, Berkley refused to retailiate against Indian attacks

Effects: people were afraid of another rebellion so they sought new labor: Africans

New York Slave Revolt - 1712: 21 blacks were killed and 9 whites

South Carolina slave revolt - 1739: 50+ slaves tried to march along the Stono River to Spanish Florida

Chapter 6

Edict of Nantes: French Protestants granted limited toleration

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