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| African indentured servant who was freed and became a successful tobacco farmer, purchasing slaves of his own. | ||
| Virginia-Maryland bay area that was the site of the earliest colonial settlements. | ||
| Region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut. | ||
| Region including Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvainia. The area had fertile soil moderate winters warm summers and a good growing season and economy was based on farming cash crops, mining and trade. | ||
| Puritan minister who became the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. | ||
| Term coined by John Winthrop in his sermon "A Model of Christian Charity," to describe how their colony should serve as a model of excellence for future generations. | ||
| War between English settlers in the Connecticut Valley and the Pequot Indians. The natives were almost wiped out in the conflict. The English wanted more land so they were killing off the natives. | ||
| Founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs. | ||
| Puritan dissenter banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who fled to Rhode Island in 1638. | ||
| Those who opposed the rule of religious laws and were followers of Anne Hutchinson. | ||
| Small number of shareholders in the company who held the power bestowed upon them by the original charter of 1629. | ||
| Allowed all adult males in communities to participate in governing. This New England system did not work well in cities with large populations. | ||
| Puritans permitted the baptism of children who were not saints but they could not vote or take communion. | ||
| War in the 1670s between Native Americans and English settlers living in New England concerning land. | ||
| Chief of the Wampanoag Indians, also known as King Philip, who led an attack on villages throughout New England. | ||
| Outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a Puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress. | ||
| First elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia. | ||
| Started the Maryland Colony and was also known as Lord Baltimore. | ||
| Ordered by Lord Baltimore after a Protestant was made governor of Maryland at the demand of the colony's large Protestant population. The act guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians. | ||
| Chesapeake crop whose production exceeded demand, causing the price to drop and the soil to be ruined. | ||
| Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. | ||
| Rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land. | ||
| Disliked Virginia governor because of his friendly policies toward the Indians. He regained power after Bacon's Rebellion was suppressed. | ||
| Last governor of New Netherland who was hated by the colonists and surrendered to England. | ||
| Land that Charles II granted to pay off a debt to some supporters. They instituted headrights and a representative government to attract colonists. The Carolinas grew rich off sugar, tobacco and indigo. | ||
| Founder of Pennsylvania who launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance. | ||
| Protestant reformers who believed in the equality of all people and were very tolerant and nonviolent. | ||
| France and England fought over the fur trade with the Native Americans. | ||
| French fur traders and trappers who went far into the wilderness of Quebec and developed extensive trade with the Native Americans. | ||
| Most prosperous Spanish outpost that was the largest European settlement west of the Mississippi. | ||
| Popé organized an uprising in which New Mexico's Indians destroyed isolated and missions, killing 400 colonists. They surrounded Santa Fe and forced the Spanish to abandon the town. Pueblo Indians reestablished their freedom. |
