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Colonial Era Vocabulary
 

Week 1

Mercantilism

Prince Henry the Navigator

Christopher Columbus

Amerigo Vespucci

Ferdinand Magellan

Hernando Cortez

conquistadors

Ponce de Leon

John Cabot

Jacques Cartier

Samuel de Champlain

Henry Hudson

Quebec

Week 2

Reformation

Elizabeth I

Sir Walter Raleigh

Roanoke

Jamestown

John Smith

Virginia Company

Spanish Armada - 1588

Puritanism

Congregationalists

Separatist - Pilgrim

Mayflower Compact

John Winthrop

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Maryland Toleration Act

Week 3

Oliver Cromwell

Restoration

Huguenots

William Penn

Quaker

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon

Mercantilism

Navigation Acts

Lords of Trade

Dominion of New England

Glorious Revolution of 1688

Plantations

Bacon's Rebellion

New England Town

Speculator

Dissenter

Anglican Church

Great Awakening

George Whitefield

Jonathan Edwards

Old Lights and New Lights

Age of Reason

John Locke

Enlightenment

Quebec

Marquette and Jolliet

War of the League of Augsburg - King William'sWar

War of the Spanish Succession - Queen Anne's War

War of the Austrian Succession - King George's War

Albany Congress - Albany Plan of Union

Seven Years War - French and Indian War

Montcalm and Wolfe - the Plains of Abraham

Week 4

Pontiac's Rebellion

Currency Act, Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Quartering Act

Patrick Henry

Sons of Liberty

Declaratory Act

Samuel Adams

James Otis

John Adams

Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Townshend Acts

John Dickinson - "Letters from a Farmer"

Boston Massacre - 1770

Gaspee

Intolerable Acts

Tea Act of 1773

Quebec Act

Committees of Correspondence

First Continental Congress

General Thomas Gage

Concord/Lexington

Second Continental Congress

Thomas Paine - Common Sense

John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence

Cornwallis

Benedict Arnold

Hessian

Saratoga

John Paul Jones

Valley Forge

Benjamin Franklin in Paris

Yorktown

Peace of Paris, September 3, 1783