Vocab 1
Agreement between groups to support and help each other, often in conflict.
Alliance
The right to practice any religion or none at all.
Religious Freedom
A community started by colonists in a new land.
Settlement
Native nation in New England who helped the Pilgrims survive early hardships.
Wampanoag
Name the 4 colonies located in the "New England Colonies"
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Crop grown to sell for profit, like tobacco in Virginia.
Cash Crop
Powhatan girl who helped connect the English and Powhatan; later married John Rolfe.
Pocahontas
Group wanting to purify the Church of England; many settled in New England.
Puritans
English company that paid for the Jamestown settlement.
Virginia Company
Name the 4 colonies located in the "Middle Colonies"
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Official document giving permission to start and govern a colony.
Charter
English settlers who came to America seeking religious freedom.
Pilgrims
Alliance of Native nations in Virginia led by Chief Powhatan.
Powhatan Confederacy
Colonies with plantations and cash crops like tobacco and rice that relied heavily on enslaved labor.
Southern Colonies
Name the 5 colonies located in the "Southern Colonies"
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
First permanent English colony in North America founded in 1607.
Jamestown Colony
Colonies known for diversity, trade, and wheat farming (“breadbasket”).
Middle Colonies
Northern colonies known for towns, shipbuilding, and small farms.
New England Colonies
Settlement founded by Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620.
Plymouth Colony
What was one "cash crop" of the Southern Colonies?
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Cotton
Leader of Jamestown who enforced work rules and traded with the Powhatan.
John Smith
English colonist who started growing tobacco in Virginia and married Pocahontas.
John Rolfe
First English attempt at a colony; disappeared and became the “Lost Colony.”
Roanoke Colony
Acceptance of people with different beliefs and practices.
Tolerance
An economic policy of maximizing wealth by trading.
Mercantilism