History by Christopher Lopez https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q Made with the best of intentions en-us 2017-08-28 03:45:34 UTC 2017-08-28 04:10:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Jamestown 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033491 The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.]]> 2017-08-28 03:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033491 John Smith 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033539 Captain John Smith, Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely.]]> 2017-08-28 03:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033539 Pocahontas 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033568 Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.]]> 2017-08-28 03:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033568 Indentured servant 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033616 Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter]]> 2017-08-28 03:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033616 Bacon’s Rebellion 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033645 Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.]]> 2017-08-28 03:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033645 Toleration Act of 1649 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033678 The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the ActConcerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City.

]]> 2017-08-28 03:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033678 Olaudah Equiano 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033714 Olaudah Equiano, known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African in London, a freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade.]]> 2017-08-28 03:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033714 Slave codes 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033757 Slaves codes were state laws established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners. Slave codes placed harsh restrictions on slaves' already limited freedoms, often in order to preempt rebellion or escape, and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.]]> 2017-08-28 03:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033757 Puritan’s 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033820 The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.]]> 2017-08-28 03:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033820 Pilgrims 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033863 The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.]]> 2017-08-28 03:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033863 Immigrants 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033938 a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.]]> 2017-08-28 03:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183033938 Mayflower Compact 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034000 The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints", and adventurers and tradesmen, most of whom were referred to by the Separatists as "Strangers".]]> 2017-08-28 03:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034000 Squanto 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034050 Tisquantum, whose name was variously spelled in 17th-century documents and is commonly known as Squanto today, was one of the last of the Patuxet, a Native North American people living on the western ]]> 2017-08-28 03:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034050 John Winthrop 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034115 John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England, following Plymouth Colony.]]> 2017-08-28 03:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034115 Anne Hutchinson 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034164 Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.]]> 2017-08-28 03:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034164 Peter Stuyvesant 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034192 Peter Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.]]> 2017-08-28 03:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034192 Quakerz 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034340 Some of these early Quaker ministers were women. They based their message on the religious belief that "Christ has come to teach his people himself", stressing the importance of a direct relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and a direct religious belief in the universal priesthood of all believers.

]]> 2017-08-28 03:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034340 William Penn 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034406 William Penn was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania]]> 2017-08-28 04:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034406 Staple crops 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034455 Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world's most popular food crops. In fact, these crops are often the basis for food staples. A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population's diet.]]> 2017-08-28 04:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034455 Town meeting 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034512 a meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business.]]> 2017-08-28 04:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034512 English Bill of Rights 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034561
The Meaning and Definition of the English Bill of Rights: The 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James ...
]]> 2017-08-28 04:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034561 Triangular trade 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034605 The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British ]]> 2017-08-28 04:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034605 Middle Passage 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034705 The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.]]> 2017-08-28 04:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034705 Great Awakening 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034748 The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism.]]> 2017-08-28 04:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034748 Enlightenment 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034774 The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, The Century of Philosophy.]]> 2017-08-28 04:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034774 Pontiac 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034837 The Pontiac brand was introduced by General Motors in 1926 as the companion marque to GM's Oakland division, and shared the GM A platform. It was named after the famous Ottawa chief who had also given his name to the city of Pontiac, Michigan where the car was produced.]]> 2017-08-28 04:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034837 Samuel Adams 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034938 Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States]]> 2017-08-28 04:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034938 Committees of Correspondence 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034982 The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society.]]> 2017-08-28 04:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183034982 Stamp Act of 1765 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035015 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22,1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.]]> 2017-08-28 04:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035015 Boston Massacre 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035065 The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob]]> 2017-08-28 04:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035065 Tea Act 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035157 Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London ]]> 2017-08-28 04:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035157 Boston Tea Party 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035230 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.]]> 2017-08-28 04:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035230 Intolerable Act 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035310 The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.]]> 2017-08-28 04:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035310 authority 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035342 a person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere.


]]> 2017-08-28 04:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035342 factors 304931 https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035463 a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression.]]> 2017-08-28 04:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/304931/yaexl1odit9q/wish/183035463