Government & Politics
This 1620 agreement established self-government at Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These Protestants wanted to reform or "purify" the Anglican Church.
Who are Puritans?
A business where investors bought shares to fund colonial ventures.
What is a joint-stock company?
Spanish religious settlements established to convert Native Americans.
What are missions?
This type of government allows colonists to elect representatives to make laws.
What is representative government?
These separatists wanted to completely break away from the Anglican Church.
Who are Pilgrims?
$200: Workers who labored without pay for a set period in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
In 1607, this became England's first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This document granted rights to establish and organize a colony. What is a charter?
What is a charter?
To disagree with the established church's beliefs or practices.
What is dissent?
Wealthy Dutch landowners in New Netherland who ruled over large estates.
What are patroons?
This written plan of government was created for the Carolina colony by John Locke.
What is a constitution?
This type of colony was owned by an individual who controlled the land and government.
What is a proprietary colony?
To treat people harshly because of their religious beliefs.
What is persecute?
People unable to repay their debts, often sent to colonies like Georgia.
What are debtors?
The mass movement of over 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts during the 1630s.
What is the Great Migration?
Meeting first in 1619, this was Virginia's elected assembly and America's first representative body.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Allowing people to practice different religions without punishment.
What is toleration?
These farmers in New France paid annual rent and worked for their lord for a fixed number of days each year. What are tenant farmers?
What are tenant farmers?
People who refused to use force or fight in wars, like Pennsylvania's Quakers.
What are pacifists?