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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tobacco | plant that saved the Jamestown settlement. |
| charters | granted to groups of merchants to organize settlements in America |
| separatists | Protestants that wanted to leave and found their own churches |
| Massachusetts Bay Company | Puritans that received a royal charter to travel to the Americas |
| pacifists | people who refuse to use force or fight |
| William Penn | wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution and negotiated treaties with the Native Americans |
| Act of Toleration | law that granted the right to worship freely in Maryland |
| Georgia | colony created so debtors and poor people could start over and last of the British colonies established in America |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert | claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth |
| Pilgrims | Separatists that journey had a religious purpose |
| Great Migration | movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts |
| The French | maintained the friendliest relations with the Native Americans |
| Manhattan | island purchased for a small amount of beads and other goods |
| Nathaniel Bacon | known as the "greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia" |
| tenant farmers | workers who paid their French lords an annual rent |
| missionaries | sent by Spain to help keep other European powers from threatening Spain's empire in the Americas |
| Anne Hutchinson | critized for speaking out and acting against the authority of the colony's ministers |
| Narraganset and Wampanoag | Native American tribes that neighbored the Plymouth colonists |
| Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina | colonies that produced tobacco |
| House of Burgesses | Jamestown legislative assembly |
| Plymouth | Pilgrims colony |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Hartford |
| Sir William Berkeley | Virginia governor |
| Mayflower | Pilgrim's ship |
| Squanto and Samoset | showed Pilgrims how to grow corn |
| Metacomet | also known as King Phillip |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | first written constitution in America |
| Roanoke | colony that disappeared |
| John Smith | leader of Jamestown that made the colonists work to survive |
| Pocahontas | Powatan princess that helps the settlers of Jamestown |
| John Rolfe | Jamestown settler that learns how to produce tobacco as a cash crop in Virginia |
| Virginia Dare | first English child born in America |
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