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5th SS Chapter 6
Our Nation - Establishment of the 13 colonies - 5th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| covenant | A special agreement |
| tolerate | To allow people to have different beliefs from your own. |
| King Charles I | King of England who gave the Puritans a charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| John Winthrop | First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| Roger Williams | Puritan minister who founded the colony of Rhode Island. He believed that colonists shouldn't take land that belonged to Native Americans. He bought the land from the Narranganstett and Rhode Island became the first to establish religious freedoms. |
| Anne Hutchison | A woman who had different beliefs than her fellow colonists and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony and founded Portsmouth, Rhode Island |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister who founded the colony of Connecticut after he believed that each church should be independent. |
| John Mason | Proprietor of New Hampshire |
| Fernando Gorges | Proprietor of Maine until it became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Metacomet | Wampanoag sachem also known as King Philip who led the Native Americans to battle the colonists. |
| cooperation | when more than one group works together |
| King Charles II | King of England when England made the Dutch colony of New Netherland a part of the Middle Colonies. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Colonial governor of New Netherland |
| William Penn | Quaker leader who founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
| proprietor | a person who owns a property or business. |
| debtor | a person who owes money |
| confederacy | a group of countries, states, or people who join for a common purpose |
| indigo | a plant used to make blue dye |
| King George II | King of England during the French and Indian War. |
| James Oglethorpe | British military officer who founded the colony of Georgia |
| Tomochichi | Chief of the Yamacraw who gave James Oglethorpe land for the Savannah settlement. |
| Boston | First settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Massachusetts Bay Company | Founded by wealthy Puritans to have King Charles I to allow them to establish a colony in America so they could practice their own religious beliefs. |
| They brought horses for transportation, hunting, and farming. They also brought cows for milk and food. Also everyone in the colony - even the kids - worked to farm and build the community. | How were the Puritans better prepared for settlement than the Pilgrims? |
| They often had religious disagreements - like freedom of religion and on whether it was good to take land from Native Americans. | Why did some Puritans rebel against their leaders? |
| The colonists stole too much land from the Native Americans that it didn't allow them to survive well. | Why did Metacomet fight the colonists? |