Chapter 3 Grade 7 Flashcards
A document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company
Charter
John Rolfe and Pocohantas set it up “House of Burgesses” settled by Jamestown
Representative Government
Sir Walter Raleigh found it in 1585 its on an island off the coast of North Carolina within 1 year the settlement failed because they ran out of food. They left and went home
Roanoke 1
When investors bought stock in a company if the settlement did well the members of the company would share the profits (Massachusetts Bay Company and Virginia Company of London
Joint-stock company
People who wanted to completely separate or break away
Separatists
Lead Massachusetts Bay Company Governor of Massachusetts
John Winthrop
Found Providence Rhode Island in 1636
Rodger Williams
Settled Hartford Connecticut and set up the Fundamental Orders of Government
Thomas Hooker
Colony in which the owner owned al the land and controlled the government
Proprietary Colony
Founded Pennsylvania and was granted land by King Charles II the New World was part of the “Society of Friends”
William Penn
Lead New Amsterdam and governor of New Netherlands
Peter Stuyvesant
Founded Virginia and he lead a rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon
Settled Georgia in 1733 brought debtors
James Oglethorpe
Large Farms
Plantations
Found by Cecil Calvert (1649) it protected and provided religious freedom for all Christians The Jews weren’t invited
Act of Toleration
Spanish military town
Presidios
A document that 41 men signed coming off the ship it stated rules/laws before they leave the ship William Bratford set it up
May flower Compact
Was set up by Thomas Hooker it limited the governors power and gave the right to vote to all land owning males- every non church members could vote
Fundamental Orders of Government
Explored the Mouth of the Mississippi River and Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV
La Salle
Moved south to north
Great Migration
Religious journey
Mission
Towns with a center for farming and trad (civilian town)
Pueblos
1769 built the first mission in San Diego and set up 20 more mission in 15 years
Junipero Serra
Was granted a charter by King Charle I for a proprietor colony he named it Maryland after Queen Mary (Lord Baltimore)
Sir George Calvert
People who owed money
Debtors
Known as Sir George Calvert and Cecil Calvert grated a charter for a proprietary colony and Cecil found Act of Toleration
Lord Baltimore
founded the “Society of Friends”
George Fox
Thriving Dutch colony today known as New York First permant Dutch settlement
New Amsterdam
A colony controlled directly by the King
Royal Colony
Known as King Philip cheif of the Wampongs tribe
Metacomet
She talked about Puritan Ministers especially their Sermons found guilty of Hersey she got banished she then settled Portsman Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Allows recognition that other people have the right to different religious opinions
Toleration
People who wanted to purify or fix up the Anglican Church
Puritians
He saved Jamestown with tabacco
John Rolfe
Settled by John White; they began to run out of food and supplies; they had to go back to England (carve a cross or write Croatian on a tree)
Roanoke 2
English pirate united by Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Drake
Strict leader of Jamestown “he who works not eats not”
John Smith
