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U.S. History 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| charter | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| joint-stock company | a company run by a group of investors who share the company's profits and losses |
| Powhatan | father of Pocahontas, leader of Powhatan empire when the english established Jamestown in 1607 |
| John Smith | english explorer, leading promoter of english colonization in America, leader of Jamestown from 1608-1609 |
| House of Burgesses | colonial Virginia's representative assembly formed in 1619 |
| royal colonies | english colonies that were under direct control of the Crown |
| proprietary colonies | english colonies granted to an individual or group by the Crown |
| Bacon's Rebellion | an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley |
| Lord Baltimore | english roman catholic politician George Calvert who was granted the Maryland colony, failed to establish colonies in Newfoundland |
| James Oglethorpe | english army officer, politician, and founder of Georgia, set strict rules for his colonists |
| puritans | english protestants who believed in strict religion and simplifying worship in an effort to purify the Anglican church, settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 |
| separatists | english protestants who wished to separate from the Anglican church |
| pilgrims | english separatists who sought religious freedom and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
| mayflower compact | a framework for self-government of the plymouth colony signed on the ship mayflower in 1620 |
| John Winthrop | First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, very religious, bad tolerance of new ideas |
| Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island, believed in religious freedom and separation of church and state, banished from Massachusetts |
| Anne Hutchinson | questioned religious beliefs and taught her own, banished from Massachusetts and moved to Rhode Island to be religiously free |
| Pequot War | a short outbreak of violence between English colonists and the Pequot Indians in 1636, during which a Pequot village was set afire, killing between 600 and 700 inhabitants |
| King Philip's War | a conflict between English colonists and American Indians in New England |
| Metacom | Wampanoag leader who launched the initial Indian attacks that began King Philip's War of 1675-1676, the English called him King Philip |
| push factor | a factor that motivates people to leave their home countries |
| pull factor | a factor that attracts people to a new location |
| William Penn | English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a refuge for other Quakers and religious minorities of Europe |
| Quakers | members of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement devoted to peaceful principles, did not believe in having ministers, rely on Christ's direct working in the soul, refuse to bear arms |
| Treaty of Hartford | Pequots lost all their land and remaining members had to live among other native tribes |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut, led a group of puritans out of Massachusetts in 1636 to settle new lands |
| Roanoke | the lost colony, first attempt at colonizing America |
| Pocahontas | married John Rolfe, allied with the colonists |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas, taught colonists how to grow tobacco |
| malaria | disease carried by mosquitoes in swamps nearJamestown |
| headright system | system for people to pay for the travel of others in exchange for some of their land |
| William Berkeley | longtime governor of Virginia, put heavy taxes on planters to reward his favorite wealthy men |
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