Social Studies 7th Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is a charter? | A government issued document that grants rights to people or companies |
Who is John Smith? | First leader of Jamestown (sent here from London) |
What is a representative government? | When voters elect people to make laws |
Who was a pilgrim? | A person who takes a religious journey |
Who was Squanto? | Native American who brought seeds to the pilgrims for corn, beans, and pumpkins |
Who was John Winthrop? | A respected land owner and lawyer |
What is toleration? | recognition that other people have the right to different opinions |
Who was Roger Williams? | Minister of a church in the town of Salem Mass. |
Who was Anne Hutchinson? | Questioned some of the puritan teachings. A symbol for religious tollerance. |
who was Thomas Hooker? | A minister that disagreed with the Puritan leaders. |
Who was John Wheelright? | Forced to leave Mass.set up governement with elected legislature |
What is a town meeting? | An assembly of towns people that decide local issues. |
What is a proprietary colony? | A colony created by a grant of land from a monarch and given to an individual or family |
What is a royal colony? | A colony controlled by English king. |
Who was William Penn? | A welathy man who founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers to keep them from persecution |
Who was Nethaniel Bacon? | Leader of the fronteir settlers |
What is a debtor? | people who owe a lot of money |
What was a plantation? | A very large farm |
Who were the puritans? | religious group founded (started) in Massachusets |
What were cash crops? | crops sold for money (rice, sugar, tobacco, cotton) |
What was the House of Burgesses? | Representative asssembly in Colonial Virginia that allowed settlers to elect representatives to make laws for colonies |
What was the magna carta? | Document that guaranteed the rights to English nobles.*NO TAXATION without REPRESENTATION* |
What was a parliament? | a two house legislature |
What was the mayflower Compact? | September 1620-100 pilgrims saliled for Virginia(freedom) on a ship called the Mayflower |
Puritans moved to the Caribbean for | Sugar |
Why did Puritans move to New England? | to practice religion in peace |
What kind of problems did colonists have in Jamestown? | swampy land, mosquitos, bad drinking water |
What type of government did Jamestown have? | House of Burgusesses |
What type of government did the Puritans have? | Democracy |
Where was Jamestown located? | Virginia |
Where were the Puritans started? | Massachusettes |
Who led the puritans? | John Winthrop |
Puritans moved to the Caribbean for | Sugar |
Why did Puritans move to New England? | to practice religion in peace |
What kind of problems did colonists have in Jamestown? | swampy land, mosquitos, bad drinking water |
What type of government did Jamestown have? | House of Burgusesses |
What type of government did the Puritans have? | Democracy |
Where was Jamestown located? | Virginia |
Where were the Puritans started? | Massachusettes |
Who led the puritans? | John Winthrop |
What crop helped Jamestown thrive? | tobacco |
Who were separatists? | puritans who settled in Holland |
What was the mayflower compact? | 100 pilgrims sailed for Virginia aboard a ship |
What was the Geography of New England? | hills,low mountains, forests, poor soil, near the coastline |
What was King Philip's war? | Native Americans were wiped out by disease |
What states were in the middle colonies? | New york, NJ, Penn., and Delaware |
What was the Mason Dixon Line? | A boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania sperating the middle from the southern |
Who were the Spaniards who helped establish missions in Texas and California? | Francisco and Junipero Serra |
Why did 1000's of Native Americans die during missions? | diseases |
What were presidios? | military posts used to defend missions |
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