Chapter 2-Settling the Thirteen Colonies Flashcards
Charter
Contained the rules governing where the colony would be located and how it would be administered.
Joint-stock companies
Companies in which the risks and rewards of a venture are shared with investors.
Charter colonies
Founded by a charter containing the rules governing where the colony would be located and how it would be administered.
Proprietary colonies
Given to individuals or groups by the king were granted full rights of self-government.
Royal colonies
Controlled directly by the crown.
Puritans
Wanted to purify the Church of England.
Separatists aka Pilgrims
Wanted to separate from the Church of England.
Mayflower Compact
1st document to provide for self-government in the New World.
Plymouth
The Pilgrims colony.
Squanto
Indians who befriended the Pilgrims and helped them to survive.
William Bradford
The Governor of Plymouth Colony.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
An established colony in America
John Winthrop
First Governor of The Massachusetts Bay.
Freemen
Stockholders with full powers to govern the colony.
Robert Williams
He founded Rhode Island.
Thomas Hooker
Founded Connecticut.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,1639
The first written constitution in America.
Henry Hudson
Explored modern-day New York, allowing the Dutch to claim the region.
New Netherland
Eventually became the colony of New York.
Peter Minuit
Governor of the colony responsible for buying Manhattan from the Indians.
Patroons
Recipes of large land grants from bringing 50 settlers to the New World.
Mercantilism
An economic system that measures wealth by the amount of gold and silver a nation possesses.
Duke of York
Given New Netherland by the English monarch (based on John Cabot’s earlier claim).
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
Friends of the Duke of York
