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Bellevue Chapter 2
Bellevue History Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who set up a trading post named Quebec |
Quebec | French Trading post |
St. Augustine | Spanish settlement and fort in Florida |
Rene-Robert Cavalier and Sieur de La Salle | followed the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico in what is today Louisiana |
New Netherlands | Dutch trading colony set up in 1621 |
New Amsterdam | present day New York city |
Junipero Serra | Franciscan priest who set up missions all over the west. |
charter | the right to organize a settlement |
burgesses | representatives |
Mayflower Compact | document signed by the Pilgrims that set up a civil government |
constitution | formal plan of government |
Roger Williams | Puritan Minister believed people should be free to follow there own religion |
toleration | the acceptance of different beliefs |
dissenters | people who disagreed with established views |
persecuted | treated harshly because of their beliefs |
William Penn | wealthy English Quaker who set up Pennsylvania |
diversity | variety |
debtors | people who are unable to repay their debts |
subsistence farming | enerally produced just enough to meet the needs of their families, with little left over |
cash crops | crops that could be sold easily |
indentured servants | laborers who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time to pay for their passage to America |
overseers | bosses, who kept the slaves working hard |
Benjamin Franklin | scientist, and leader of American revolution |
charter colonies | grant of rights and privileges granted by English monarch |
Proprietary colonies | colonies owned by an individuals or a small group of people |
royal colonies | colonies who were under direct English control |