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Eleanor Rome Unit#1
vocab
Term | Definition |
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House of Burgess's | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony | |
person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership | |
the person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful | |
a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract | |
group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers | |
Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food | |
first representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony | |
Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England | |
Name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom | |
government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony | |
Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique | |
Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it | |
the name of the colony the Puritans established | |
type of government in which religious leaders make the laws | |
governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans | |
Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims | |
name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work | |
founder of the Connecticut Colony | |
. the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans |