Chapter 3 section 1
Terms
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- Rhode Island
- Providence
- Chief Powhatan
- Part of a tribal confederation
- Quakers
- this religious group was known as the Society of Friends
- King Philip's war
- also known as the 7 years war
- Jamestown
- Site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607
- Bacon's Rebellion
- revolt in 1672 by virginia colonists against the royal governor
- Religious Dissent
- was a disagreement with the Anglican church
- Connecticut
- Est by Reverend Thomas Hooker, self-governing, creates Fundamental Orders
- Town mettings
- Which local tax-paying citizens met to discuss and vote on issues
- Half-way covenant
- Offered partial membership rights to people who have not yet converted.
- Sourthern Colonies
- NC, SC, Georgia, Maryland, Virgina,
- House of burgesses
- The first official legislative assembly in the Colonies
- New England colonies
- Connecticut, Massachusets, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
- Indentured servants
- people who worked for seven years and then were set free
- New Amsterdam
- another Dutch Trading Post, on Manhattan Island in NY, Turned into NEW YORK CITY
- Middle Colonies
- New York, New Jersey, Penn, Delaware
- Salem witch trials
- Trials held in an attempt to liberate Massachusetts from all accused of being "witches"
- Slavery
- system were people are owned
- Puritans
- Members of a religious group known for its strict beliefs