Vocabulary
Sacred agreement made with God
What is a Covenant?
People who leave their original country to live in another country
Who are immigrants
Quaker leader who established a colony
Who is William Penn
Made colonists plant food crops and build sturdy housing
Who is John Smith?
Not all who immigrated to Virginia colony were slaves
Gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia
What is headright?
Protestant group that believed all people has an inner goodnes
Who are Quakers?
Gave help to the colonist and led the alliance of Algonquian Indians
Who is Wahunsonacock?
known as dissenters because they opposed England's official religion
Who are the Puritans?
the colony that offered people religious freedonm and a government that would protect against abuse of power
What did Pennsylvania offer people?
Document creating a new political society signed by the Pilgrims
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Agreed to work in exchange for passage to America
Who are indentured servants?
Married John Rolfe and was daughter to Wahunsonacock
Who is Pocahontas?
Attacked and burned Jamestown
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Had more rights in the Plymouth colony than they had in England
Who are women?
Written to ease growing tensions between Catholics and Protestants in Maryland
What is the Toleration Act of 1649
owners of a colony who controlled the government
Who are proprietors?
Angered Puritan church leaders by publicly discussing religious ideas that some leaders thought radical
Who is Anne Hutchinson
Moved to the Netherlands to freely practice their religion
Who are the Pilgrams?
wanted to build an ideal Christian community in Massachusetts
Who are the Puritans?
People who disagree with official opinion
Who are Dissenters?
Puritan group that wished to separate from the Church of England. They formed their own churches and cut all ties with the Church of England
Who are the Separatists?
In 1632 King Charles I gave a charter to found a new colony. This colongy was to be a refuge for English Catholics
Who is Cecilius Calvert?
Helped the Jamestown colonists by teaching them how to grow food
Who is the Powhatan Confederacy?
Wanted to provided opportunities for poor English citizens
Who is James Oglethorpe?