Vocabulary
Document that helped establish the practice of Self-Government for the pilgrims
Mayflower Compact
Royal Colony
The first ___________ in the colonies was known as the Hose of Burgesses.
Representative assembly, government, governing body.
What is the difference between a proprietary colony and a royal colony?
Proprietary colonies were governed by a single owner; royal colonies were ruled by the king's appointed officials.
Group of People that belong to the same church are called this.
Congregation
Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Written contract giving the right to establish a colony
Charter
Puritans should not impose their beliefs on others.
Like the settlers at Jamestown, the __________ at Plymouth also endured a "starving time".
Pilgrims
The Act of Toleration forbade this.
Religious persecution
This word also means Variety
Diversity
Person who puts money into a project to earn a profit.
Investor
Why was Georgia founded?
To protect English colonies against Spanish Florida.
These people agreed to work without pay for a set time to come over to America.
Indentured servants
Charles Town, or Charleston, became a refuge for French Protestants called this.
Huguenots
Quaker founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Leader of the Jamestown colony
John Smith
William Penn founded Pennsylvania for which group to practice freely.
Quakers
After he was banished from Massachusetts, ______ founded Rhode Island, a colony that guaranteed separation of church and state.
Roger Williams
How did the Patroon system help bring settlers to New Netherland?
It gave an incentive to bring more and more people to New Netherland.
Dutch colony that later became New York
New Netherland
First permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
To attract more settlers to New Netherland, the patroon system did this.
provided a land grant to any person who brought 50 settlers to the colony.
This Person opposed Large plantations and slavery in Georgia because he wanted to help poor settlers establish small farms.
James Oglethorpe
Why would English settlers have needed to learn survival skills from Native Americans?
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