Chapter 3 Flashcards
a document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company
charter
the of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them
representative government
a person who takes a religious journey
pilgrim
the first written plan of government in the English colonies
Mayflower Compact
cash crop that made Virginia profitable
tobacco
crop grown for sale
cash crop
first representative body in North America
House of Burgesses
he brought the Pilgrims seeds to grow crops
Squanto
recognition that other people have the right to different opinions
toleration
leader of the Puritans in Massachussets
John Winthrop
Governor of the Pilgrims in Plymouth for thirty years
William Bradford
founder of the colony of Rhode Island
Roger Williams
elected Assembly of Massachusetts
General Court
founder of the colony of Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
an assembly of townspeople that decides local issues
town meeting
Chief of the Wompanoag that led the Indians of New England to war against the English
Metacom (or King Philip)
a colony created by a grant of land form a monarch to an individual or family
proprietary colony
a colony controlled directly by the English king
royal colony
founder of the Pennsylvania colony
William Penn
Pennsylvania was established a colony to protect this religious sect
Quakers
frontier region extending through several colonies from Pennsylvania to Georgia
backcountry
founder of the colony of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
founder of the colony of Georgia
James Oglethorpe
people who owe money
debtors
