Colonizing America and Colonial Way of Life
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Puritan | Someone who wanted to purify the Anglican Church during the 1500s and 1600s. |
| Walter Raleigh | Received a charter from Queen Elizabeth I to explore the American coastline. His ships landed on Roanoke, which became a "lost colony." |
| House of Burgesses | The first general assembly of the Jamestown colony. |
| Headright | System in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settlig Virginia. |
| Proprietary Colony | Colony owned by an individual. |
| Separatist | A Puritan who broke away from the Anglican Church. Wanted complete separation of religion from the monarchy. |
| Pilgrim | A Separatist who journeyed to the American colonies in the 1600s for religious freedom. |
| William Bradford | Leader of the Pilgrims at Plymouth |
| Squanto | Taught the Pilgrims about their new environment. |
| John Winthrop | A stockholder in the Massachusetts Bay Company who recieved a royal charter to create a refuge colony for Puritans in Massachusetts. The first leader of Puritans in Massachusetts. |
| Great Migration | The name given to the period when an estimated 20,000 settlers arribved in New England. |
| Heretics | People whose religious beliefs differ from those accepted by the majority. |
| Roger William | A Separatist who challenged the Puritan ideas, was banned from Massachusetts, and founded the colony of Providence, RI. |
| Anne Hutchinson | A Puritan who believed God revealed to her the ministers that offered salvation, was banned from Massachusetts, and founded the colony of Portsmouth, RI. |
| King Philip's War | The turning point in colonization when New England now belonged to the English settlers. |
| Maryland Toleration Act | Granted religious toleration to all Christian in Maryland and was intended to protect the Catholic minority from the Protestants. |
| William Penn | Received land from King Charles II as payment for debt owed to his father. Established Pennsylvania, a religous colony for Quakers. |
| James Oglethorpe | Found the colony of Georgia, a place for Englishmen in debt to start over. |
| Cash Crop | Crop grown primarily for market |
| Indentured Servant | An individual who contracts to work for a colonist for a specified number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies, food, clothing, and shelter. |
| Plantation | Large, commercial, agricultural estate |
| Subsistence Farming | Farming only enough food to feed one's family |
| William Berkeley | Governor of Virginia, who exempted himself and his councilors from taxation and restricted the vote to only property owners, which led to Bacon's Rebellion |
| Slave Code | A set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people. |
| Triangular Trade | A three-way trade route that exchanged goods between American colonies and two other trading partners (Caribbeans and England). |
| Great Awakening | Movement during the 1700s that stressed dependence on God. |
| John Locke | Asserted that all people were born with natural rights, including the right to life, liberty, and property. |
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