Civics Chapter 3
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- Mayflower
- A ship that left on September 16, 1620 with more than 100 men, women, and children
- Captain John Smith
- English colonist to the Americas who helped found the Jamestown Colony and encouraged settlers to work harder and build better housing
- religious freedom
- What were the Puritan's reasons for coming to America?
- mercantilism
- A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade.
- Lord Baltimore and the Maryland Toleration October
- Lord Baltimore presented a bill to the colonial assembly; This bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians
- English Catholics
- What type of people owned a Charter Colony?
- diversity of the colonies
- There were different founders for each of the colonies, and they may have had different main religions, and good places for farming or building in each colony.
- Anne Hutchinson
- She was an outspoken woman in Boston; She angered the Puritan Church Leaders; Believed that the people's relationships with God didn't need guidance from ministers
- Georgia- James Oglethorpe
- King George granted him and other trustees to found Georgia; He wanted the new colony to be a place where debtors, who had been jailed for their debts in England, could make a new start; He outlawed slavery and limited the size of land grants, didn't want Georgia to have large plantations owned by few wealthy individuals, and wanted many small farmers
- Mayflower Compact
- It was a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good.
- New York
- New Netherlands colony became this
- Great Awakening
- A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
- Laws to control slaves
- What were the slave codes?
- King James I
- Who was Jamestown named for?
- John Rolfe
- an English colonist that introduced tobacco that sold well in England to the colonists in Jamestown.
- Pocahantas
- American India princess; She saved the life of John Smith when he was captured and sentenced to death by the Powhatan. She was later taken prisoner by the English, converted to Christianity, and married colonist John Rolfe.
- Thanksgiving
- Pilgrims invited Wampanoag and 90 other guests to celebrate their first harvest.
- New Netherlands
- Peter Stuyvesant was the disliked governor of which colony?
- King James I
- Who owned Jamestown in 1607?
- Pilgrims
- one Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution.
- William Penn
- A proprietor of the New Jersey colony; was a Quaker