Virginia Vocab
A document granting certain rights, powers, privileges, or functions from a sovereign state power to an individual or an organized group
What is a charter?
A man to whom the Dutch government granted land if he could fund the passage of 50 colonists to the New Netherlands
What is a patroon?
He introduced the settlers to the fur trade and taught them how to sow and fertilize native crops
Who is Squanto?
They left Holland because they had low paying jobs and felt their children were being influenced by the corrupt manners of the Dutch
Who are the "saints"?
The agreement that said the "saints" and their fellow colonists would combine into a civil body politic in the presence of God and one another
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A group of people who are responsible for the governance of an organization, institution, or activity
What is a governing council?
White laborers whose passage to America was paid in return for a specified number of years of labor
Who are indentured servants?
Algonquin Indian woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia
Who is Pocahontas?
This is the trading company that Bartholomew Gosnold organized
What is the Virginia Company?
The place the Mayflower landed instead of Virginia
What is Massachusetts?
Agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit
What are cash crops?
A group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong
What is a sect?
English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown colony that favored military discipline
Who is John Smith?
The Sarah Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery are all
What are English ships?
About half of the pilgrims died from this
What is the harsh winter?
Taking things or people to or from a country or place illegally and secretly
What is smuggling?
Sect of Protestants who tried to reform the Church of England by “purifying” it of all Catholic practices
Who are Puritans?
Virginia planter and colonial official who smuggled tobacco and made it a cash crop in Jamestown
Who is John Rolfe?
This smuggled cash crop provided economic salvation for Jamestown
What is tobacco?
The three-day harvest festival when the Indians and Pilgrims came together to share food
English joint-stock company that was chartered by King James I in 1606 to colonize the eastern coast of America
What is the Virginia Company?
Group of Puritans who believed they could only follow their pure doctrines and practices outside the established church
Who are "saints"?
English navigator and explorer that tried to discover a shorter route from Europe to Asia and was eventually kicked off of his ship by the crew
Who is Henry Hudson?
Before the cash crop of tobacco, Jamestown was saved by John Smith through
What is military discipline?
The pilgrims continued to look for guidance from
Who is God?