History chapter 5 Flashcards
Emigrate
Leave one’s own country and settle elsewhere
Puritans
Protestants who wanted no church of England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The colony founded by the puritans
Great Migration
The movement of puritans coming to America
Thomas Hooker
founder of the Connecticut colony
John Winthrop
First governor of the Massachusetts bay colony
Roger Williams
Founder of the Rhode Island colony
Patroon
Rich landowner in the Dutch colonies
Toleration
Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
Anne Hutchinson
puritan who was sent away from Massachusetts
New England Colonies
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
New Amsterdam
Dutch colony renamed New York when the English took it over
Peter Stuyvesant
Harsh governor of New Amsterdam
Royal Colony
English colony directly under the king’s control
Pennsylvania
Means “Penn’s Woods”
William Penn
Founded the colony of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Greek word meaning “Brotherly Love”
Lord Baltimore
Founded the colony of Maryland for Catholics
Middle Colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
James Oglethorpe
Founded the colony of Georgia for debaters from England
Exports
Goods sent to markets outside a country
Imports
Goods brought into a country
Legislature
A group of people who have the power to make laws
Indentured servant
A person who signed a contract to work for a certain length of time
Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, Georgia
Mercantilism
A theory that a nation became strong by building up its gold supplies
Navigation Acts
Series of laws that governed trade between England and its Colonies
Enumerated Articles
Certain goods from the Colonies
Some reasons people came to America
Religious freedom
find gold to get rich
land ownership
Debaters could make a new start
Kinds of primary sources
Photographs
Letters
Diaries
Journals
Contracts
Laws
Treaties
