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.