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amer. republic ch 3
chapter vocab
Question | Answer |
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Humphrey Gilbert | Englishman who claimed New Foundland for Queen Elizabeth. He died at sea. |
Walter Raleigh | Went to N.A.to claim land. Found Roanoke Island in present North Carolina |
John White | sent to Roanoke Island to settle with colonists. He was a mapmaker and artist |
What was the name of the settlement founded in Chesapeake Bay in 1607? Who was it named after? | Jamestown-named after king James |
Captain John Smith | served as a leader for Jamestown. forced the settlers to work as he exploered and got corn from Native Americans |
Who learned to grow tobacco in the new world which helped tomake the land prosperous? | John Rolfe |
Who did Pocahontas marry? | John Rolfe |
charters | the right to organize settlements which was given by King James I |
House of burgesses | the two representatives from each town to be able to voice opinions formed this group |
dissent | disagreeing with beliefs or practices of Anglicans |
persecuted | treated harshly because they believed the pope was the head of the church |
puritans | protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church |
separtists | settlers who wanted to leave and set up their own churches |
pilgrims | separtists who wanted to leave England for religous purpose |
Mayflower Compact | pilgrims loyalty to England and a beginning of establishing a government in America |
who showed the Pilgrims how to plant crops and hunt and fish | Squanto and Samoset |
Who was the Wampaboag leader who signed a peace treaty with the pilgrims? | Massasoit |
John Winthrop was a puritan who led about 900 people to what Massachusetts Bay city? | Boston |
toleration | criticizing or persecting others because of religous beliefs |
Thomas Hooker | left Massachusetts to form Hartford, CT |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | first written constitution in America |
Roger Williams | a minister forced out of Massachusetts to Rhode Island because of religous beliefs, people were allowed to worship freely |
name two reasons why Separtists left England | religous freedom, economic hardships, |
indentured servant | people who worekd for no pay so they could get to America |
patroons | wealthy land owners who had riverfronts estates, ruled like kings with courts and laws |
proprietary colony | a person who owned all the land and controlled government |
William Penn | asked for land from King Charles in America |
pacifists | people who refused to use force or fight in wars, many were Quakers |
quakers | Society of Friends in Pennsylvania that believed everyone had an inner light that gained them salvation. they were tolerant of others views |
who established Maryland? | Lord Baltimore |
The line make of stones dividing Maryland and Pennsylvania | Mason Dixson |
Act of Toleration | a law in Maryland that allowed religions freedom. |
opposed colonial government and lead an attract(s) on N.A village | Nathaniel Bacon |
Constitution | plan of government |
Northern Carolina economy | Grew Tobacco and sold forest products such as Timber and Tar |
Southern Carolina Economy | rice was grown a crop trade at the harbor |
Indago | A flowering plant used to dye material |
debtors | people who are unable to repay their dept. |
James Ogelthorpe | received a charter to create the colony of Georgia for poor people and debtors. |
explored the Mississippi rive by canoe hoping to find gold, silver and other metals | Louis Joliet, and Jacques Marquette |
tenet farmers | farmers who paid rent to their Lords and worked the land |
missions | religious settlement made to convert people to a particular faith |