Ms. Woo's 8th grade history class
510979651 | Squanto | a Pawtuxet who helped the Pilgrims | |
510979652 | persecute | to treat harshly | |
510979653 | dissent | to disagree with | |
510979654 | Metacomet | King Philip | |
510979655 | Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican church | Puritans | |
510979656 | a law & order contract signed by the Pilgrims | Mayflower Compact | |
510979657 | they helped the Pilgrims to survive | Squanto & Samoset | |
510979658 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | the first written constitution in America | |
510979659 | 1st colony in America to practice religious toleration | Rhode Island | |
510979660 | charter | right to organize settlements in an area | |
510979661 | Jamestown's legislative assembly | house of Burgesses | |
510979662 | Early colony that disappeared | Roanoke | |
510979663 | Crop that saved Jamestown | Tobacco | |
510979664 | Sir Humphrey Gilbert | claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth I | |
510979665 | New England Colonies | MA, RI, NH, CT | |
510979666 | Reason New England colonies were founded | Religious freedom | |
510979667 | Pilgrims | Separatists called themselves this because their journey had a religious purpose | |
510979668 | Pilgrims colony | Plymouth | |
510979669 | Pilgrims ship | Mayflower | |
510979670 | How Squanto helped the Pilgrims | taught them to grow corn | |
510979671 | Metacomet's English name | King Philip | |
510979672 | Founder of Hartford | Thomas Hooker | |
510979673 | Great Migration | the movement of 15,000 Puritans to MA | |
510979674 | Massachusetts Bay Company | Company the Puritans formed when they received a royal charter to establish a colony north of Plymouth | |
510979675 | Protestants who wanted to leave the Anglican Church and set up their own churches | Separatists | |
510979676 | Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church | Puritans | |
526874833 | Duke of York | Charles II brother | |
526874834 | colony of New Netherlands | New Amsterdam | |
526874835 | Patroons | wealthy landowners | |
526874836 | Society of Friends; religion who were pacifists | Quakers | |
526874837 | "city of brotherly love" | Philadelphia | |
526874838 | New Jersey | named after an island in the English Channel | |
526874839 | William Penn | America's 1st town planner; supervised the building of Philadelphia; wrote PA's 1st constitution | |
526874840 | Charter of Liberties | document that granted the PA colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislative assembly | |
526874841 | Three Lower Counties | southernmost part of PA | |
526874842 | Middle Colonies | NY, DE, NJ, PA | |
526874843 | Pacifists | people who refuse to use force or fight | |
526874844 | present day location of New Amsterdam | New York City | |
526874845 | How Manhattan Island was purchased | from Manhates for small number of beads and other goods | |
536347213 | Carolina | In Latin, it means Charles' land. | |
536347215 | constitution | a plan of government | |
536347217 | Nathaniel Bacon | "The greatest rebel that was ever in VA." | |
536347219 | Louis Joliet | a French fur trader and explorer | |
536347221 | missions | religious settlements established to convert people to a particular faith | |
536347222 | Maryland | colony established as a safe place for Catholics | |
536347224 | indigo | Carolina's "blue gold" | |
536347226 | Georgia | colony that British set up as a military barrier; last British colony established in America; had the highest percentage of non-British settlers; created to that debtors and poor could start over | |
536347228 | French | founded Quebec; maintained the friendliest relations with the Native Americans | |
536347230 | Junipero Serra | Franciscan monk who worked for the rights of Native Americans | |
536347232 | Southern Colonies | MD, VA, NC, SC, & GA | |
536347234 | Indentured servants | agreed to work for a set amount of time in order to gain passage to America | |
536347235 | Act of Toleration | It granted Protestants & Catholics the right to worship freely in MD | |
536347237 | Virginia | Colony who 1st had settlers trying to move westward away from the east coast | |
536347239 | William Berkley | VA governor who wanted settlers to stay near the east coast | |
536347241 | Carolina Constitution | the constitution that covered subjects such as land distribution and social ranking | |
536347243 | Tenant farmers | settlers who paid annual rent and worked a fixed number of days each year | |
536347245 | Santa Fe & San Antonio | site of military Spanish post founded by missionaries, soldiers and settlers |