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Chapter 3 US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| New Netherland | Dutch Colony that later became New York |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland |
| William Penn | Quaker founder of Pennsylvania |
| Patroon | Person rewarded with a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland |
| Lord Baltimore | Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland |
| Margret Brent | Attorney of the governor of Maryland |
| Act of Toleration | Maryland law that forbade religious persecution |
| Huguenots | French Protestants |
| James Oglethorpe | The founder of Georgia |
| Proprietary colony | Colony governed by a single owner, or proprietor |
| Elite | Highest ranking social group |
| Diversity | Variety |
| Region | Distinct area of land |
| Tidewater | Flat land along the coast |
| John Winthrop | Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony |
| Pilgrims | Separatist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | Document that helped establish the practice of self government |
| Puritans | English dissenters who wanted to reform the church of England |
| Great Migration | The movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to New England during the 1630's |
| Roger Williams | Puritan dissenter who was banned from Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter who was banned from Massachusetts |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | Document that has been called the first written constitution of America |
| Quakers | Group of Protestant dissenters |
| Dissenter | Person who disagrees with an official church |
| Persecute | To mistreat |
| Tolerance | Acceptance of different opinions |
| Congregation | Group of people who belong to the same church |
| Banish | To force someone to leave a place |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Founder of England's first American Colony (Roanoke, NC) |
| Mercantilism | Economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries |
| Jamestown | First Permanent Settlement in North America |
| John Smith | Leader of the Jamestown colony |
| Headright | Land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies |
| Indentured servant | One who worked for a set time without pay for a free passage to America |
| House of Burgesses | The Virginia assembly which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
| Joint-stock company | Company Funded by a group of investors |
| Investor | Person who puts money into a project to earn a profit |
| Charter | Written contract giving the right to establish a colony |
| Royal colony | Colony ruled by the King's royal officials |
| Identify 3 things that happened to save Jamestown | Pocahontas married a colonist , Lord De La Warr focused the people into farming instead of searching for riches , & tobacco farming brought them riches. |
| Why did the colonists settle in the middle colonies? | More religious freedom, rich soil , mild winters , & rivers encouraged trade |