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Charles II

monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Restoration colonies

one of the land grants given by King Charles II, Pennsylvania

Carolina Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

adopted in 1669 by the eight lords proprietor which included land between Virginia and Florida

manorial system

economic and social system, all legal and economic power belonged to lord of the manor

Quakers

members of a family of religious movements known as the Religious Society of Friends, dissenters, less inclined to be violent they were pacifists , viewed natives as PEOPLE, quake (shake) during intense religious practices. Refused to "worship" people of higher classes, believed all people were children of God . Refused to pay taxes. Persecuted in England. Gov. was willing to let them go to colonies, helped them to make money, need $, trying to populate.

William Penn

English real estate entrepreneur, Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, and future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Wanted a place for Quakers to practice their beliefs freely. PA was ethnically diverse.

Quaker Society

family of religious movements, unifying doctrine was the priesthood of all believers

George Fox

English Dissenter & Founder of the Religious Society of Friends, preached that spirituality was not found through the church, didn't need them to talk to God.

Margaret Fell

founder of the Religious Society of Friends known as the "mother of Quakerism"

"inner light"

Light of God, Light of Christ, Christ within, That of God, Spirit of God within us, Light within, inward light and inner light are related phrases commonly used within the Religious Society of Friends as metaphors for Christ's light shining on or in them

"Frame of Government"

of Penn. was a constitution for the Province of Pennsylvania

Henry Hudson

English sea explorer and navigator, made attempts to find a Northwest Passage to Cathay.

Dutch West India Company

Chartered company of Dutch merchants

Patroonships

Landholders w/ with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherlands. Worked like a feudal system. (SC and Virginia)

New Sweden

Swedish colony near Delaware River
blue laws: laws designed to restrict or ban some religious practices

James Oglethorpe

British general, member of parliament, founder of Georgia.
"buffer colony" : colony that keeps 2 or more areas distant from each other

War of Spanish Succession

(1701-14) major European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death in 1700 of the infirm and childless Charles II, the last Habsburg King of Spain.

Iroquois aggressively neutral

From 1667 to the 1680s the Iroquois maintained friendly relations with the French, and during this time Jesuit missions were established among each of the five tribes. Iroquois aggression and expansion, however, eventually brought them into conflict with the French and, at the same time, into closer alliance with the English.

Treaty of Utrecht

signed in 1713, put an end to the War of Spanish Succession (1701-13). The war resulted from a dispute over who should inherit Spain and its possessions after its Habsburg rulers became extinct in 1700.