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SS Chapter 3
Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sir Walter Raleigh | founder of England’s first American colony |
| ROANOKE | the first attempted English Colony |
| MERCANTILISM | economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries |
| JAMESTOWN | first permanent English settlement in North America |
| JOHN SMITH | leader of the Jamestown colony |
| POCAHONTAS | married John Rolfe and the Native Americans began helping Jamestown |
| HEADRIGHT | land grant given to one who could pay his/her way to the colonies |
| TOBACCO | cash crop that saved Jamestown |
| HOUSE OF BURGESSES | the Virginia assembly, which was the first representative assembly in the American Colonies |
| PILGRIMS/MAYFLOWER | separist groups that travel to America to gain religious freedom |
| PURITANS | English dissenters who wanted to reform the Church of England |
| ROGER WILLIAMS | Puritan dissenter who established Rhode Island |
| SQUANTO | A Native American that helped the pilgrims survive the first winter. |
| LORD BALTIMORE | Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland |
| ACT OF TOLERATION | Maryland law that forbade religious persecution |
| JAMES OGLETHORPE | The founder of Georgia |
| WILLIAM PENN | A quaker who founded Pennsylvania |
| Sir George Carteret & Lord John Berkeley | The people who founded New Jersey |