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| German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation |
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| The efforts of the self-described "reformers" who objected to ("protested") the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Catholic Church |
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| 16th and 17th century English royal families; ruled England from 1485 to 1603; the first king was Henry VII - he became king after the battle of Bosworth Field, which ended the War of the Roses; King Henry VIII is probably the most famous King that England has ever had - he married six times and had two of his wives beheaded; he had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth and a son, Edward. When Elizabeth I died without having children, James I, son of Mary Queen of Scots became the first King of both England and Scotland |
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| He was Lord, and later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of France. Besides his six marriages, he is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was the youngest surviving child of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. |
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| Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and shewas declared illegitimate. |
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| Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585 and was named after Queen Elizabeth |
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| The seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U.S |
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| Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders |
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| The first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America, following several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. |
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| Consisted of a worker, usually from a foreign country, agreeing to work for a specific time, usually about 7-8 years, to pay off his costs of travel to the new country. Pay would be minimal during those 7-8 years, and might only include housing, food and training. The worker might also receive land for himself at the end. Indentured servitude was most popular in the early Virginia colony in the 1600s, when many workers were needed to farm tobacco. Bacon’s Rebellion made unpopular |
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| Introduced in Virginia, gave each head of household the right to fifty acres of land for himself and fifty additional acres for each adult family member of servant that he brought to America. |
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| An uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. |
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| In 1619, at Jamestown, Virginia, approximately 20 captive Africans are sold in the British North American colonies. |
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| Embraced the idea that every worshiper should experience God directly through faith, prayer, and study of the Bible – rather than through services and rituals conducted by church priests. |
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| The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Before departing the ship, the Pilgrim men signed a agreement in which they created a civil government and pledged loyalty to the king. |
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| The second permanent English settlement in North America, was founded in 1620 by settlers including a group of religious dissenters commonly referred to as the Pilgrims. |
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| A 1637 conflict in which the Pequot nation battled Connecticut colonists and their Narragansett allies. |
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| Sometimes called Metacom War; a conflict, in the years 1675 – 1676, between New England colonists and Native American groups allied under the leadership of the Wampanoag chief Metacom |
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| In 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdom |
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| A Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers. The first settlement was made at Fort Orange (now Albany, New York) in 1624, although the colony centered on New Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan Island after 1625-1626; was annexed by the English and renamed New York in 1664. |
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