Vocabulary
Mistreated because of their beliefs
What is persecuted?
This is the name of the island that Sir Walter Raleigh settled.
What is Roanoke Island?
These were Protestants who wished to reform the Anglican Church?
Who were Puritans?
This is how New York got its name
What is the Duke of York receiving the colony from King Charles?
These were the two southern states that split because they did not develop as planned
What are the Carolinas?
Landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land
Who were patroons?
This was the name of the first English child born in North America
What is Virginia Dare?
These were people who sought out to create their own churches
Who were Separatists?
This is the company that controlled New Netherland
What is the Dutch West India Company?
This was the English philosopher that wrote a constitution that outlined the jobs and powers of the colony's government.
Who was John Locke?
What is a charter?
This is the name of the Native American tribe who forged alliances with John Smith.
What is the Powhatan tribe?
This is the colony that Thomas Hooker founded
What is Connecticut?
This is a Protestant group that had been persecuted in England
Who are the Quakers?
This was the name of the man who started a rebellion in Virginia?
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
A list of fundamental laws to support a government
What is a constitution?
This was the first legislature in North America elected by the people
What is the House of Burgesses?
This was a document and agreement that was a key step for the development of representative democracy and each signer agreed to obey the laws passed "for the good of the colony."
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These were the two men who took control over the New Jersey colony after the Duke of York divided his colony
Who were Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret?
These were the major crops in the Carolinas
What are rice and indigo?
Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
Who was an indentured servant?
This is who Jamestown was named after.
Who was King James I?
These were the two Native American men who helped the pilgrims
Who were Squanto and Samoset?
This was the governor of the colony of New Amsterdam who surrendered it to the English without a fight
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
This is the name of the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania
What is the Mason-Dixon line?