People
A colonist and leader of Jamestown
Who is John Smith?
a legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good
What is the Mayflower Compact?
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
What are immigrants?
a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe
Who is Pocahontas?
a system in which goods and slaves were traded amoung the Americas, Britain, and Africa
What is triangular trade?
A Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony
Who is William Penn?
laws to control slaves
What are slave codes?
a Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England
What are Puritans?
Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe and spoke English
an English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607
What is Jamestown?
a philosopher who thought that people had natural rights
Who is John Locke?
an act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
What are Pilgrams?
Puritan woman who disagreed on religious ideas, was tried, and forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
leader of Puritans who left England for Massachusetts seeking religious freedom
Who is John Winthrop?
assembly in which the colonists decided issues and made laws
What is a town meeting?
a religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God; supported nonviolence and religious tolerance
What are Quakers?
a Native American leader who led a rebellion in the Ohio Valley in 1763
Who is Pontiac?
crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats
What are staple crops?
the director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
an act passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch and have Parliament more power
What is the English Bill of Rights?
colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys
What are indentured servants?
a former slave who wrote down his experiences
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
religious movement in the colonies during the 1730's and 1740's
What is the Great Awakening?