Sean Roberts
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1. Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. The uprising was a protest against Native American raids on the frontier, as well as policies of favoritism shown by the Royal Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. It was one of the first times that poor whites and poor blacks were united in a cause.
2 James Edward Oglethorpe (December 22, 1696 – June 30, 1785) was a British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer in Britain, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtor's prison, in the New World.
3.The Mayflower Compact was an agreement among the passengers of the Mayflower that they would make laws in their new colony to benefit the colony. It is significant, because up until that time, monarchs made the laws, and the people who had to obey them had in input on those laws.
4. A Puritan of 16th and 17th-century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety. Puritans felt that the English Reformation had not gone far enough, and that the Church of England was tolerant of practices which they associated with the Catholic Church.
2 James Edward Oglethorpe (December 22, 1696 – June 30, 1785) was a British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer in Britain, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtor's prison, in the New World.
3.The Mayflower Compact was an agreement among the passengers of the Mayflower that they would make laws in their new colony to benefit the colony. It is significant, because up until that time, monarchs made the laws, and the people who had to obey them had in input on those laws.
4. A Puritan of 16th and 17th-century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety. Puritans felt that the English Reformation had not gone far enough, and that the Church of England was tolerant of practices which they associated with the Catholic Church.