Colonization
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raminbagheri on February 29, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Winthrop | Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony |
| intolerance | what did the Separatists and Puritans have in common |
| Puritans | A member of a religious group that believed in simple churches and ceremonies and thought the Church of England was corrupt |
| Roger Williams | Started Rhode Island after being forced to leave Massachusetts Bay for opposing forced church attendance and taking Native land |
| Anne Hutchinson | believed people could worship God without a church, minister or the Bible and was banished from Mass |
| Charles II | revokes Mass. charter because it had disregard of royalty |
| Differences between Quakers Puritans | Quakers were open-minded, believed in equality, loose religious practices, simple life style, pacifists: Puritans close-minded, believed they were right and the chosen few, feared God, very strict religious policies |
| William Penn | Started Pennsylvania so Quakers could live according to their beliefs |
| Where Quarkers were settled | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Where Puritans were settled | New England |
| Squanto | helped Pilgrims by teaching them how to hunt, plant and fish, and negotiating peace with Chief Massasoit |
| King Charles II | He gave a huge section of land in North America to a young man named William Penn |
| Indentured servants | Individuals: Who contracted to serve a master for four to seven years in return for the slave's passage to America |
| Separatist | A person who refused the authority of the church of England and wanted to separate |
| Proprietary colony | They are owned by a person or group of people who appointed the governor for a colony. |
| reasons Jamestown was not an ideal place to settle | 1. Land was low and swampy 2. Air was full of disease carrying mosquitoes 3. River water was not healthy to drink, it made people sick |
| Pilgrims | separatists who sailed the Mayflower to Plymouth Rock to escape religious persecution |
| Jamestown | England's 1st permanent colony in America |
| Duke of York | James, Duke of York, the brother of Charles II, became the proprietor (owner) of the English colony of New York in 1664 when it was seized from the Dutch |
| Intolerant | not accepting differences in others (ideas, opinions) |
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