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History
Chapter 3- People and Things to Know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Founder of England's first American colony. |
| John Smith | Leader of the Jamestown colony. |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America. |
| House of Burgesses | The Virginia Assembly, which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies. |
| John Winthrop | Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachsetts Bay Colony. |
| Roger Williams | Purtian dissenter who established Rhode Island. |
| Ann Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts. |
| Lord Baltimore | Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland. |
| Margaret Brent | Attorney of the governor of Maryland. |
| James Oglethorpe | The founder of Georgia. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. |
| William Penn | Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. |
| Mercantilism | Economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasures. |
| Indentured servant | One who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America. |
| Pilgrims | Sepratist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom. |
| Mayflower Compact | Document that helped establish tha practice of self-government. |
| Puritans | English dissenters who wanted to reform the Church of England. |
| Quakers | Group of Protestant dissenters. |
| Act of Toleration | Maryland law that forbade religious persecution. |
| Propriety Colony | Colony governed by a single owner, or proprietor. |
| Great Migration | The movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to New England during the 1630s. |