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7th SS - Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Colonies Take Root
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First English colony that was established in North America, but the people all died and it's a mystery what happened | Roanoke Island |
| First permanent English colony in North America that survived | Jamestown |
| document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company | charter |
| 2 reasons why Jamestown colonists barely made it their first year | diseases and they did not know how to farm |
| man sent from London to straighten up the Jamestown colony | John Smith |
| the form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them | representative government |
| Virginia's first lawmaking body | House of Burgessess |
| English people that were often persecuted or treated badly because of their religion | Separatists |
| a person who takes a religious journey | pilgrim |
| Pilgrims who sailed for Virginia aboard a ship called the Mayflower called their colony what | Plymouth |
| document that the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower signed that called for a government that would make and follow "just and equal laws" | Mayflower Compact |
| Native American who brought the pilgrims seeds of native plants and showed them how to plant them | Squanto |
| day which the pilgrims set aside in 1621 to give thanks for their good fortune for surviving the winter and thanking the Native Amerians | the first Thanksgiving |
| states that make up the northern part of New England | New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine |
| states that make up the southern part of New England | Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island |
| group that had disagreements with the Church of England, but wanted to reform it rather than split from it | Puritans |
| man who led the Puritans to establish a colony in North America | John Winthrop |
| recognition that other people have the right to different opinions | toleration |
| man who believed that colonists should pay Native Americans for their land and who ultimately left to found a new colony called Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| man who disagreed with Puritans leaders, left Massachusetts, and founded the town of Hartford, Connecticut | Thomas Hooker |
| man who was forced to leave Massachusetts because he agreed with Anne Hutchinson and founded what is now New Hampshire | John Wheelright |
| an assembly of townspeople that decides local issues | town meeting |
| Native American, chief of the Wampanoag, whose goal it was to stop Puritan expansion | Metacom |
| states that make up the Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware |
| a colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family | proprietary colony |
| a colony controlled directly by the English king | royal colony |
| New York began as a colony controlled by what group | Dutch |
| Pennsylvania and Delaware were founded by who | Quakers |
| group of people who set apart from the Puritans, believed that all people had a direct link with God, and that all people were equal in God's eyes | Quakers |
| wealthy Quaker man who wanted to find a place for Quakers to live where they could be safe from persecution who considered his colony to be a "holy experiment" | William Penn |
| a frontier region extending through several colonies, from Pennsylvania to Georgia | backcountry |
| dividing line between the northern and southern states after the American Revolution | Mason-Dixon line |
| flat lowland that includes many swampy areas | Tidewater |
| leader of the frontier settlers who organized a group of 1,000 westerners and began attacking and killing Native Americans in the southern colonies | Nathaniel Bacon |
| name of the colony that was set up where Catholics could live safely | Maryland |
| people who owe money | debtors |
| a large farm | plantation |
| first Spanish fort in northern Florida | St. Augustine |
| lands along a frontier | borderlands |
| Spanish explorer who led an expedition into New Mexico to find gold, convert Native Americans, and establish a permanent colony | Juan de Onate |
| religious settlements that aim to spread religion into a new area | missions |
| saint and missionary who established several missions in the South including San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles | St. Junipero Serra |
| Spanish military posts | presidios |
| Spanish civilian towns | pueblos |