Chapter 3 Flashcards
Englands first settlement in America established by
Sir Walter Raleigh
The new settlers soon found out they
Did not have all of the supplies they need to continue living here
Virginia company
A joint stock company that gained a charter to establish James town
Joint stock company
Investors buy stock to help set the settlement up and profits are reached
Caption John smith
Governor of James town for its 1st 2 years
Tobacco saved
James town
John Rolfe
Married the married the daughter of chief pawhatan pochants
Who were the Puritans
Protestants who wanted reform
Separatists
Wanted to leave and set up their own churches
Who were the pilgrims
Separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom
Pilgrams
Came too America on the mayflower on September 1620
Plymouth
The colony of the pilgrims
The first thanksgiving
Was autumn 1612 with Wampanoag Indians (Squanto and samoset’s tribe
Willam Bradford
Led the pilgrims for over 30 years
And he is famous for for writing of Plymouth plantation
The puritans in America
In 1629 a group of puritans from the Massachusetts bay company and the Massachusetts bay colony was their colony based on the Bible