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Protestant group that wanted to reform the Church of England
Puritans or Separatists
This was a law passes to ease tensions between Catholics and Protestants
Act of Toleration
Indian helped grow food Jamestown colonists
Pocahontas
Colony offered religious freedom and a government that would protect against the abuse of power
Pennsylvania
Did puritans ally with pilgrims in England and stand against religious persecution
No they did not
Term that referred to giving 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia
Headright
Fundamental orders of Connecticut were… Was significant because…
First written constitution in America-Representative government
Protestant groups that cut all ties with the Church of England and developed their own churches
Separatists
Agreement that granted colony organization was a
Charter
All African people who immigrated to the Virginia Colby were forever slaves
No
Gender that had more rights in Plymouth than in England
Female
Indian tribe that helped the pilgrims
Wampanoag
Puritans that wanted to build ideal Christian community-colony
Virginia
Form of early government that an individual controls the colonial land and government
Proprietary
Religious group that believed all people had inner goodness or light were
Quakers
In 1664 Peter Stuyvesant ran the Dutch claim of new Netherlands but this country overtook it
England
Person named this colony after himself after he threatened to attack it- the colony surrendered to England
Duke of York
This act is the basis for our constitutional first amendment
Act of toleration
Document was first written document describing basic government and equality for all colonists
Mayflower compact
House of Burgesses-
Representatives of the colonies local towns who made local laws for the colony
Colony became the example of representative government and equality for all colonists
Pennsylvania
Rebellion that signified the resistance of native Americans and was an organized effort to take over their land
Bacons rebellion
First citizen born in the U.S .
Virginia Dare
Puritans-
Protestants who wanted to reform Anglican Church
Thirteen colonies- Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut maryland new York New Jersey
Pennsylvania