Vocabulary
What is a colony?
A land ruled by a distant country or someone far away.
Name one risk proprietors took when establishing a new colony. (What is something bad that could happen when establishing a new colony?)
-Negative interactions with Native Americans
-Lack of skilled people
-No one coming to live in your colony
-Bad weather, sickness, lack of food
Why did the Pilgrims leave England in 1620?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A set of written laws that the Pilgrims used.
What is a claim?
The sentence that explains what the paragraph is going to be about. The topic sentence.
What is a proprietor?
an owner of something
Why was the school building so important to Puritan villages?
To teach children how to read the Bible.
- Little food
-Little clothes
-Overworked
-Sickness
What is rule of law?
The idea that everyone, even leaders, have to follow the laws.
How do you give credit or cite your evidence in a DBQ?
"Quote" (Doc ____).
What does "enslaved person" mean?
A person who is a slave
What family founded Maryland?
The Calverts
What are the three categories of motives for settlement that we discussed this unit?
Political, Economic, and Social
What was the Toleration Act?
The first law allowing Christians to worship how they wanted.
What is a primary source?
An original document or object from a period in history. First hand evidence.
Who was most important in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
1. John Winthrop
2. John Green
3. Marco Polo
John Winthrop
What is a secondary source?
A document that was written about a historical event, but the person that wrote it was not there.