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Jamestown 1607 - First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia Company. Captain John Smith - Saved Jamestown 1610. Brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas. First Africans - brought to Virginia as slaves, 1619. Virginia House of Burgesses - 1619. First elected legilative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia. Served as an early model of elected government in the New World. Mayflower Compact - 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. Great Migration - Puritans go to Massachusetts, 1630s-40s; due to belief that the Church of England was beyond reform. 15,000 Puritans escape religious persecution and economic hard times. Roger Williams - established Rhode Island, 1636; Believed in 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. Anne Hutchinson's - banishment in 1637. religious dissenter---heritic--- who challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her ideas became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law. She was latter expelled, with her family and followers, and settled at Pocasset ( now Portsmouth, R.I.) Pequot War - English won at Mystic Massachusetts, 1637, The Bay colonists wanted to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed.King Philips War, 1676 - Puritan war against the Wampanoag and Metacom (ie. King Philip) over land. William Penn - Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance. Salem Witch Trials, 1692 - Wave of hysteria swept through Massachusetts regarding outrageous religious convictions and proposed witchcraft. 150 people arrested, 26 convicted. this changed the dynamics of wealth because the wealthy were accused of witchcraft more often than the poor. James Oglethorpe - established Georgia, 1732. Buffer against Spanish Florida. Recruited debtors. Unsuccessful for awhile b/c he was strict, place for honest debtors (the poor who were in debtor's prison). Jonathan Edwards - sparked the 1st Great Awakening, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", He preached anew the traditional ideas of Puritanism related to sovereignty of God, predestination, and salvation by God's grace alone. He had vivid descriptions of Hell that terrified listeners.