DEFINITIONS
VIRGINIA
MASSACHUSETTS
OTHER ENGLISH COLONIES
MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN COLONIES
100
Promised to work for a certain amount of years to pay for their fare to America
What is an indentured servant?
100
King who did not care for tobacco
Who is King James I
100
Contract signed by the Pilgrims that became first effort at self-government in the English Colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
Became head of state of England and known as the King killer
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
100
This word means the owners that controlled the government
What are proprietors?
200
Any religious group
What is a sect?
200
An alliance of Algonquian Indians under the leadership of Wahunsonacock
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
200
Native American who helped the Pilgrims fertilize the soil and establish peaceful relations with Massasoit
Who is Squanto?
200
Disease that wiped out a large population of Native Americans
What is small pox
200
The act which made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
300
A Puritan group who decided to escape persecution and moved to another country
What is a pilgrim?
300
Man who saved Jamestown by forcing men to work for food
Who is John Smith?
300
Native American who gave Pilgrims useful information about the peoples and places surrounding Plymouth
Who is Samoset?
300
Founded Rhode Island
Who is Roger Williams?
300
This colony was made up of poor farmers from Virginia
What is North Carolina?
400
People who leave the country they were born in to live in another country
What is an immigrant?
400
Man who introduced tobacco to Jamestown colony
Who is John Rolfe?
400
The first people to celebrate what is now known as Thanksgiving
Who are the Eastern Indian tribes?
400
Angered authorities for publicly discussing radical ideas that went against the teachings of the church
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
This crop wa grown in South Carolina
What is rice?
500
People who disagree with official religious or political opinions
What is a dissenter?
500
Company that set up the headright system
What is the London Company?
500
President who made Thanksgiving a national holiday
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Fear and hysteria led to these in this New England Town
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
500
Pennsylvania was started by this man who was a Quaker
Who was William Penn?
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