History Chapter Three
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- Model of Christian Charity
- A famous speech written by John Winthrop talking about how working together brings success
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Founder of England's first American colony
- Mercantillism
- Economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries
- Jamestown
- First permanent English settlement in North America
- John Smith
- Leader of the Jamestown colony
- Headright
- Land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies
- Indentured Servant
- One who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America
- House of Burgesses
- The Virginia assembly, which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies
- Joint-Stock Company
- company funded by a group of investors
- Investor
- Person who puts money into a project to earn a profit
- Charter
- Written contract giving the right to establish a colony
- Royal Colony
- Colony ruled by the king's appointed officials
- What saved Jamestown?
- When Jamestown produced tobacco, it saved them. When Lord de la Warr came, he helped them survive.
- Lord de la Warr
- Man who saved Jamestown
- John Rolfe
- Man married to Pocahontas and the one who sent the first shipment of tobacco to England
- Puritan leader who became the first governer of the Massachusettts Bay Colony
- John Winthrop
- Pilgrims
- Separtist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom
- Mayflower Compact
- Document that helped establish the practice of self-government
- Puritans
- English dissenters who wanted to reform the Church of England
- Great Migration
- The movement of over 10,000 English settlers to New England during the 1630s
- Roger Williams
- Puritan dissenter who established Rhode Island
- Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts
- Anne Hutchison
- Fundamental Orders of CT
- Document that has been called the first written constitution of America
- Quakers
- Group of Protestant dissenters
- Dissenter
- Person who dissagrees with an official church
- Persecute
- To mistreat
- Tolerance
- Acceptance of different opinions
- Congregation
- Group of people who belong to the same church
- To force someone to leave a place
- Banish
- Lord Baltimore
- Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland
- Margaret Brent
- Attorney of the governor of Maryland
- Maryland law that forbade religious persecution
- Act of Tolleration
- Huguenots
- French Protestants
- James Oglethorpe
- The Founder of Georgia
- Proprietary Colony
- Colony goverened by a singl owner, or proprietor
- Elite
- Highest-ranking social group
- Diversity
- Variety
- Region
- Distinct area of land
- Tidewater
- Flat land along the coast
- New Netherland
- Dutch colony that later became New York
- Peter Stuyvesant
- Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland
- Quaker founder of Pennsylvania
- William Penn
- Patroon
- Person rewarded with a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland