Vocabulary
This document gave settlers the right to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
This “Lost Colony” disappeared without a trace in the 1580s.
What is Roanoke?
He was sent from London in 1608 to lead Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
This rugged frontier region lay along the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the backcountry?
George Calvert wanted Maryland to be safe for this group.
Who are Catholics?
These Separatists wanted to break away from the Church of England.
Who are the Pilgrims?
England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
He left Massachusetts and founded Hartford, Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
This flat lowland stretches along the southern coast.
What is the Tidewater?
Rhode Island’s charter gave colonists this freedom.
What is religious freedom?
This means acceptance of other people’s religious beliefs.
What is tolerance?
Disease, lack of food, and poor conditions killed most settlers here.
What is Jamestown?
Banished from Massachusetts, he founded Providence, Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
The largest colony in the Middle Colonies.
What is Pennsylvania?
These two groups both left England but differed in wanting to reform or
Who are Puritans and Pilgrims?
This type of local meeting allowed colonists to vote on community issues.
What is a town meeting?
This agreement, signed on a ship in 1620, created self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania as a “holy experiment.”
Who is William Penn?
The smallest colony in the Middle Colonies.
What is Delaware?
This colony’s capital is Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Love.”
What is Pennsylvania?
A colony directly controlled by the king was called this.
What is a royal colony?
He led rebel settlers who attacked and burned Jamestown.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
He founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
Farming was difficult here because of rocky soil and a short growing season.
What is New England?
In the 1700s, people who owed money could be sent here.
What is jail (or prison)?