Important People
Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of New Netherland.
Conquered New Sweden in 1655.
Roger Williams
Founder of the Rhode Island colony.
Duty
A mortal or legal obligation/ a responsibility.
Mr. T's favorite subject
History
Anne Hutchinson
Founded Rhode Island after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony.
John Smith
Took control of Jamestown and built a fort in 1608.
William Penn
Founded the Pennsylvania colony.
Slave codes
Laws to control slaves.
Indigo
A plant used to make blue dye.
Jamestown
The first colony in America set up in 1607 along the James river in Virginia.
Indentured Servants
Servants who signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America.
John Winthrop
Founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Gentry
Well born people of high social class.
Triangular trade
A multilayer system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country and by its exports to another.
Roanoke
First permanent English settlement in North America.
Pocahontas
Married John Rolfe in 1614.
Daughter of Powhatan leader.
John Mason
Charter
A document giving permission to start a colony.
Tobacco
The leaves of cultivated tobacco prepared for use in smoking, chewing or as snuff.
Puritans
Protestants who wanted to reform the church of England.
Francis Drake
Known for his circumnavigation of the world in one expedition from 1577- 1580. English explorer, sea captain, sea dog, slave trader and politician.
James Oglethorpe
Founder of the Georgia colony.
Cash crops.
A crop produced for its commercial value.
Mr. T's new dog's name
Josie
Pilgrims
A member of a Puritan separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas.