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Ch. 4 Settlement
Term | Definition |
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Pennsylvania | Diverse, accepting colony settled by William Penn and the Quakers |
Jamestown | VA settlement that struggled to survive, but was saved by tobacco; first permanent English settlement in the New World |
Roanoke | Early settlement by Sir Walter Raleigh; fate of colonists is unknown |
Jean Ribault | French explorer who settled Charlesfort |
Mayflower Compact | Early form of a constitution that established framework for Plymouth, Massachusetts |
Maryland | Colony settled by Lord Baltimore and mainly Catholics (religious toleration) |
tobacco | crop that saved the colonists at Jamestown |
printing press | Gutenberg's invention that increased communication |
Martin Luther | Author of 95 Theses; split from Church of England |
King Henry VIII | Created the Church of England (because he was not granted a divorce) |
New England | section of colonies that has rocky soil and is known for subsistence farming and shipbuilding |
Middle | section of the colonies that is home to Philadelphia and known as the breadbasket |
Southern | section of the colonies where South Carolina is and tobacco was grown on plantations |
indentured servant | someone willing to work for 7-10 years in exchange for passage to the New World |
Spain | powerful European country that joined together nation-states and settled FL. |
headright system | system where owners distributed land to settlers in the New World (50 acres) |
St. Augustine | First permanent European settlement in the New World |
House of Burgesses | Found in VA, this was the first form of representative government (legislature) in the New World |
Christopher Columbus | Explorer, financed by Spain, who sailed West to get East and discovered San Salvador (New World) |
Amerigo Vespucci | Cartographer who the Americas was named after |
Fransisco de Chicora | SC native and slave to Ayllon; convinced Spain to finance voyage to San Miguel de Gualdape |
fur trade | Main purpose for the French and Dutch settlements |
capitalism | private ownership of business; profit goes to the invdividual |
Renaissance | rebirth of thinking; return to teachings of Greeks and Romans |
Puritans | Religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England; settled in Massachusetts and had strict morals |