Chapter 3 OP

Question 1

charter

Answer 1

a document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company

Question 2

representative government

Answer 2

the form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them

Question 3

toleration

Answer 3

recognition that other people have the right to different opinions

Question 4

town meeting

Answer 4

an assembly of townspeople that decides local issues

Question 5

proprietary colony

Answer 5

a colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual of family

Question 6

royal colony

Answer 6

a colony controlled directly by the English king

Question 7

pilgrim

Answer 7

is a person who takes a religious journey

Question 8

Back country

Answer 8

was a frontier region extending through several colonies from Pennsylvania to Georgia

Question 9

debtors

Answer 9

people who owe money.

Question 10

john smith

Answer 10

was sent from London to lead the James town town colony.

Question 11

Squanto

Answer 11

brought the pilgrims seeds of native plants-corn beans and pumpkins-and showed them how to plant them. He also taught the settlers how to catch eels from nearby rivers.

Question 12

john Winthrop

Answer 12

a respected landowner and lawyer. led the puritans

Question 13

roger Williams

Answer 13

minister of a church in the town of Salem. Williams believed the puritans should split entirely from the church of England.

Question 14

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 14

questioned some of the Puritan teachings. she was put on trial in 1638 and was expelled from Massachusetts.

Question 15

Thomas hooker

Answer 15

a minister disagreed with the puritan leaders. He left Massachusetts with about 100 followers in 1636 and settled in what today is Connecticut.

Question 16

Metacom

Answer 16

the chief of the Wampanoag who was also known by his English name king Philip. his goal was to stop shop puritan expansion.

Question 17

William Penn

Answer 17

wanted to find a place for Quakers to live free from persecution.

Question 18

Nathaniel bacon

Answer 18

became the leader of the frontier settles. in 1675 he organized a force of 1000 westerners and began attacking and killing native Americans. the governor declared that bacon and his men were rebels.

Question 19

lord Baltimore

Answer 19

got the assembly to pass the act toleration in 1649. it welcomed all Christians and gave adult male Christians the right to vote and hold office,

Question 20

James oglethorpe

Answer 20

wanted a colony where there would be protection for english