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This Quaker, formed a colony that he named Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn
1607 the first permanent colony in America
What is Jamestown
Group of dissenters that came to the new world for a church that was better than the Church of England.
Who are Puratins
Group of dissenters that wanted to create a church that was completely independent of royal control.
Who are the Separatists/Pilgrims
He helped Jamestown develop a new variety of tobacco.
Who is John Rolfe
This colony was started by Pilgrims. In the first winter nearly half of them died.
What is Plymouth Colony
War from 1675 to 1676 between Metacom against English settlers in Southern New England.
What is King Philips War
What is the Mayflower Compact
First representative assembly in America
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses
She was a Native American who married John Rolfe in the early settlement of Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas
Corporate colonies such as jamestown.
What are joint-stock companies
Rebellion of army volunteers that raided Native American villages.
an economic policy in which the colonies were to provide raw materials to the parent country.
What is Mercantilism
What is the Middle Passage
in 1630 he led 1000 Puritans to America and founded Boston and several other towns.
John Winthrop
This act granted religious freedom to all Christians in the colonies.
Act of Toleration
People whos passage to the colonies was paid for. In return they worked a specific amount of time for room and board.
What are Indentured servants
50 acres of land offered in Virginia for anyone who paid for passage or any plantation owner who paid for an immigrants passage.
What is the Headright system
What is the Enlightenment
Royal Governor of Virginia who favored large plantation owners. Put down Bacon's Rebellion.
Members of the Religious Society of Friends. Firm believers of non-violence.
What are Quakers
Series of acts passed between 1650 and 1673 which established rules for colonial trade.
What are the Navigation Acts
Trade between England, Africa, and the West Indies
What is Triangular Trade
A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730's and 1740's
What is the Great Awakening