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Who established England's first American colony in Roanoke, but the colony failed.

Sir Walter Raleigh

In order to set up a colony, organizers had to obtain a __________ from England's monarch, which was a written contract giving rights to establish a colony.

charter

After most of Jamestown's first colonists died, a soldier and adventurer named _________________ took control and helped bring order to the colony.

John Smith

One who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America

Indentured Servant

The __________ was the first representative form of government in the colonies.

House of Burgesses

After an uprising by the Powhatan, King James I turned Virginia into a ____________________

royal colony

An economic system that European nations used to increase their wealth by selling more products to foreign nations than buying from them.

Mercantilism

Established in 1607, this was the first permanent English colony in North America

Jamestown

A company funded by a group of investors

join-stock company

A person who puts money into a project to earn a profit

Investor

What did the colonies provide to England?

wealth

The first years in Jamestown were difficult because


1)


2)


3)


4)


1) illness


2) settlers wasting time and effort searching for gold instead of building or farming


3) harsh climate


4) lack of food

Unable to find gold the colonists discovered this product that would bring them wealth

tobacco

Written by the Pilgrims before landing in New England



Mayflower Compact

Believed that sermons and ministers were obstacles to the direct experience of God

Quakers

a Puritan that founded Rhode Island, a colony that guaranteed religious tolerance and separation of church and state

Roger Williams

Who founded Boston, which became the most important town in New England and wanted to reform the Church of England

Puritans

A separatist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom and founded Plymouth

Pilgrims

The ship in which the Pilgrims sailed and landed near New England.

Mayflower

Puritan dissenter who fled to Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts

Anne Hutchinson

a person who disagrees with an official church

dissenter

to mistreat

persecute

acceptance of different opinions

tolerance

to force someone to leave a place

banish

the movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to New England between 1630 and 1640

Great Migration

Puritan values included


1)


2)


3)


1) hardwork


2) education


3) representative government


The owner, or proprietor, of the colony of Maryland

Lord Baltimore

The Southern colony that was founded on the Chesapeake Bay with the intention of being a society free from religious conflicts was called

Georgia

James Oglethorpe received a charter in 1732 to create a colony that welcomed debtors and poor who wanted to make a new start

diversity

The Georgia colony promised religious toleration in order to attract settlers because it was hoped that the settlers would protect the English colonies against Florida, a colony belonging to ______

Spain

Charles Town, or Charleston, became a refuse for French Protestants called________

Huguenuts

Maryland law which forbade (outlawed) religious persecution

Act of Toleration

One who protested the teachings of the Catholic church and created a variety of religious groups including Quakers, Baptists, Puritans, and Anglicans

Protestant

Quaker that founded Pennsylvania and received land from Charles II as payment of a debt to his family

William Penn

Built by the Danish along the Hudson River in what is now New York State

New Netherland

Charles Town or

Charleston

Received a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland

patroon

governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland and expanded the colony by taking over the nearby colony of New Sweden in 1655.

Peter Stuyvesant

Religious groups that favored simple and peaceful lifestyles that moved to Pennsylvania:


1)


2)


3)


4)

1) Mennonites


2) Dunkers


3) Moravians


4)Amish

What role Pocahanuts has?

Peace Maker

What was Roger Williams phrase/quote?

Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of god

Plymouth

Pilgrims

How many Colonies?

13

Items in England

Raw material

Examples of colonization

gold, economic wealth

Define Toleration

accepting to faith

First permanent settlement

Jamestown

Clothing style

modest, pride

Dissenters from Massachusetts

Hutchenson & Roger Williams

Major faith in Jamestown

Baptist

How many settlers for new land

50

Hero of Jamestown

Smith

Purpose of Mayflower Compact

leader didn't have to much power, Christian faith

export/import

mercanitilism

Faith in Pennsylvania

Quaker

First Colony

Roanoke

What are the Middle Colonies:

Pennsylvania


Delaware


New Jersey


New York

Explain why settlers came to middle colonies:

1) rich soil and mild winters


2) great farming

Patroon System

wealth, 50 settlers, attract settlers, land farm, hunt and fish, fur trade

Middle Colonies

William Penn - Quaker

the major cash crop in Maryland that would see the use of slave laborers

tobacco

people that would be willing to work for 4-7 years without pay in exchange for free passage to America

Indentured Servant

which colony was a safe haven for Catholics

Maryland

the views of slavery initially in Georgia

anti-slavery

the person that founded or governed Maryland

Lord Baltimore

French protestants that fled Europe to seek religious freedom

Hugenots

colony that was started by Jim Oglethorpe and was a haven for poor and debtors

Georgia

one who protests or opposes the Catholic church

Protestant

the major cash crop in the Carolina that would see the use of slave laborers

ricedocumen

t which forbid religious persecution in the colony of Maryland

Act of Toleration

Founder of Roanoke

Sir Walter Raleigh

mercantilism

economic system

Jamestown

first permanent English settlement

John Smith

leader of the Jamestown colony

headright

land given to one who could pay his or her own way to the colonies

House of Burgessess

the Virginia assembly