Vocabulary
a person who makes a journey for religious reasons
What is a pilgrim?
The leader of the Jamestown Colony.
Who was Captain John Smith?
The first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia, established 1607?
In 1620 this was the first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by 41 men and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
What was The Mayflower Compact?
The ship on which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620.
What was The Mayflower?
A native Indian of America, daughter of Chief Powahatan, who was one of the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, and return to England with him, about 1595-1617. Her brave actions in saving an Englishman paved the way for many positive English and Native American relations.
Who was Pocahontas?
A person or group that bears the blame for another.
What is a scapegoat?
Chief of the Powhatan Indians- father of Pocahontas.
Who was Powahatan?
What were: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire?
This was formed in the Colony of Virginia; it was the first legislative body in colonial America. Later, other colonies would adopt the same rules.
The House of Burgesses
A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
Reverend Parris's black slave from Barbados. She is accused of performing witchcraft in 1692.
Who was Tituba Black?
A religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled in Massachusetts Bay.
Who were the Puritans?
The Wampanoag leader, also known as King Phillip, led the Native Americans on a bloody campaign between 1675-1676 against New England colonists.
Who was Metacom?
These were the Middle or Mid-Atlantic Colonies.
What were: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware?
In 1215, a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John "Lackland" of England was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom.
What is The Magna Carta?
A 1629 outbreak of accusations in a Puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria, and stress.
What were The Salem Witch Trials?
A Puritan woman who was well learned and disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area.
What is a charter?
Justice of the Peace in the Massachusetts Colony were tasked to hunt for witches in 1692.
Who was Johnathan Corwin?
These were the Southern Colonies.
What were: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people.
What is The English Bill of Rights?
Colonists controlled directly by the monarchy of England; no authority to self-govern.
What was a royal colony?
A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut because he believed that the governor and other officials had too much power. He wanted to set up a colony in Connecticut with strict limits on government.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
A charter granted to colonists by the government of England, which gave them the right to self-rule and government.
What is a charter colony?
Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill."
Who was John Winthrop?
A colony established by the English Pilgrims, also known as Separatists, in 1620, it became part of Massachusetts in 1691.
1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.
What was King Phillip's War?
In 1629, King Charles gave the Puritans the right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.
What was The Massachusetts Bay Colony?
He founded Rhode Island for the separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Who was Roger Williams?
An economic policy that held that a nation prospered by exporting more goods to its colonies and other nations than importing from them.
What is Mercantilism?
He was the founder of the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681. He wanted there to be peace between all people of all religions and the Native Americans. This was because of his Quaker Religion.
Who was William Penn?
The New England Colonies' economy was based mostly on these three things.
What were shipbuilding, fishing, and trade?
This is a system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government.
What is representative government?
The New England Colonies were founded by people primarily seeking this.
What was religious freedom?
He founded the Colony of Maryland, initially a proprietary colony that was intended to be a refuge for English Catholics. The state of Maryland's flag is based on the coat of arms of his family.
Who was Lord Baltimore?