Chapter 3 Flashcards
Joint-stock company
merchants financing a colony
investors
People who invest of hopes of making a profit
Mercantilism
Way to enrich treasuries
Charter
Permission to form a colony
Persecute
Mistreat
Roanoke
The lost colony
John Smith
Saves Jamestown
John Rolfe
Discovered a form of tobacco that made him wealthy
Pocahontas
The daughter of a chief who married John Rolfe
Separatists
Wanted to separate from the Church of England
Mayflower Compact
Agreement to follow majority rule
Squanto
An English speaking Indian who helped starving pilgrims survive by teaching them how to plant native crops.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Established first colony on Raonoke Island in North Carolina
Indentured servant
Work a number of years for passage to America
Dissenter
People who disagreed with the church
Tolerance
Acceptance of different ideas
Congregations
Group of people who belong to the same church
Banish
Forced to leave a colony
Elite
High ranking
Diversity
Variety
Region
Distinct area of land
Lost colony
Roanoke
Jamestown
The permanent English settlement in North America
William Penn
Founded the province of Pennsylvania
How did Penn get Pennsylvania
King Charles II gave a large piece of North America to William Penn because the King owed it to William Penn’s father
Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
New England Colonies
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Southern Colonies
Maryland, Carolina’s, Georgia
Quakers
A group of people who believed in equality of all people
Colony for debtors
Virginia or North America
Tobacco’s importance to the colonies
Tobacco profits fuel settlements
Mayflower
The ship that carried the pilgrims from England to Plymouth
Pilgrims
A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons
Plymouth
The first English settlement settled by religious separatists/pilgrims