Vocab
Corporations where investors could pool their money and profits/losses were split according to the number of shares.
joint-stock company
Religious colony founded by two groups of pilgrims - the Separatists and the Puritans.
Massachusetts
Wampanoag Indian who spoke English and taught the pilgrims at Plymouth how grow food, hunt, and trade with the Indians.
Squanto
Members of the Anglican church who hoped to purify it of Roman Catholic practices.
Puritans
TRUE or FALSE
Pennsylvania did NOT allow religious freedom in their colony for anyone but Quakers.
FALSE
People who are traveling primarily for a religious purpose.
Founded by Henry Hudson for the Dutch in 1609, but eventually taken back by the English and renamed.
New York
First elected leader Plymouth who led them well, eventually calling for a feast of thankfulness to celebrate the first year.
William Bradford
A group that wanted to separate themselves from the Anglican Church.
Separatists
Name one of the three reasons New Jersey appealed to settlers.
1) Cheap land
2) Religious freedom
3) Self-government
Economic system that measured wealth by how much gold and silver a nation possessed.
Started as a joint-stock company colony, but was taken over by the king and grew tobacco as its primary cash crop.
Puritan pastor who was kicked out of Massachusetts for disagreeing with the Puritan beliefs and would buy land from the Indians to create Providence colony.
Rodger Williams
People who “trembled at the word of the Lord”, believed all were equal and all possessed the “inner light” telling them God’s will - not the Bible.
Quakers
TRUE or FALSE
New Hampshire formed out of a need for more space and received a royal charter from the King.
TRUE
Colonies given by the king to individuals and groups.
proprietary colonies
Originally gifted to eight noblemen by King Charles, they named this colony and its main city, Charleston, after the King, but would split in two in 1712.
Rich Quaker who was gifted land in the new world by King Charles II and would call it Sylvania which is Latin for “woodland”.
William Penn
Granted religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
Act of Toleration
GIVE ONE
Name one of the reasons the pilgrims at Plymouth were successful.
1) Not afraid to work
2) Had their families
3) Leaned on their faith
The first written Constitution in America.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Began as a proprietary colony because the King owed a rich Quaker family money.
Pennsylvania
James, brother of King Charles the II who would rename “New Amsterdam”.
Rodgers promoted this idea that the Church and the government should not be the same and should not control one another.
Separation of Church and State
TRUE or FALSE
Cotton was one of the major cash crops of the Carolinas.
FALSE