Chapter 3 KS Flashcards
Charter
Document issued by a government that grants specific rights to person or company.
Representative government
the form of government in which voters elect people to Make laws for them.
Toleration
Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions.
Town meeting
An assembly of townpeople that decides local issues.
Proprietary colony
A colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family.
Royal colony
A colony controlled directly by the english king.
The backcountry
A frontier region extending through seval colonies, from pennysylvania to Georgia
accumlatiing
People
Debtors
People who owe money.
Plantation
A large farm especially in a hot country where crops such as cotton, sugar and rice are grown.
John Smith
was sent out from london to lead the colony.
Jamestown.
Squanto
Brought the pilgrims seeds of the native plants-corn beans and pumpkins-and showed them how to plant them.
John winthrop
A respected landowned and lawyer.
roger williams
Minister of a church in the town of salem. Williams believed the puritans should split entirely from church of England.
Anne hutchinson
Questioned some of the puritan teachings. She was put on trial in 1638 and was expelled from Massachussetts. hutchinsons established a settllement on an island that is now a part of Rhode island. In 1642, she traveling farther south, into what is today New york state.
William penn
Wanted to find a place for Quakers to live where they would be safe from percution
Nathaniel bacon
The leader of a rebellion that went on the attack native Americans & Jamestown.
Lord baltimore
Got the assembly to pass the act the toleration, in 1649.
James oglethorpe
Wanted a colony where there would be protection for English debtors-People who owe money
Impose
To place a burden on something or someone
Sustain
To support; to keep going
restrict
To place limitations on something or somebody
Fundamental
Most important part
Accumulate
To increase in amount over time
Proprietor
Owner of a business or a colony
Contrast
Difference shown between things when compared
function
Purpose; proper use
convert
To change from one religion to another
