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Chapter 3 Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dissented | People that disagreed with the beliefs or practices of the Anglicans. |
| Persecuted | Treated harshly. |
| Puritans | The protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church. |
| Separatists | Those who wanted to leave and set up their own churches. |
| Pilgrims | People who's journey had a religious purpose. |
| Mayflower Compact | A formal document that the Pilgrims drew up. |
| Patroons | The wealthy landowners who acquired riverfront estates after bring 50 people to America to work the land. |
| Proprietary Colony | A colony in which the owner, proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government. |
| Pacifists | People who refuse to use force or to fight in wars. |
| Indentured servants | To pay for their passage to America, they agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time. |
| Constitution | A written plan of government. |
| Debtors | Those who are unable to repay their debts-were generally thrown into prison. |
| Tenant Farmers | Those who paid a lord an annual rent and worked for him for a fixed number of days each year. |
| Missions | Religious settlements established to convert people to a particular faith. |
| The Jamestown settlers saved their colony by planting | tobacco. |
| Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own churches were called | Separatists. |
| Puritans formed the New England Company and received a royal charter to establish the | Massachusetts Bay Company. |
| People who refuse to use force or fight in wars are called | pacifists. |
| T or F: Sir George Carteret wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution? | William Penn |
| What law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland? | Act of Toleration |
| T or F: Which colony was created so debtors and poor people could start over? | Georgia |
| Because their journey had a religious purpose, the Separatists called themselves | Pilgrims. |
| What law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony? | Act of Toleration |
| T or F: To keep other European powers from threatening its empire in America, Spain sent soldiers, settlers, and fur traders. | F: To keep other European powers from threatening its empire in America, Spain sent soldiers, settlers, and missionaries. |
| Jamestown legislative assembly | House of Burgesses |
| Pilgrims colony | Plymouth |
| colony that disappeared | Roanoke |
| Pilgrim’s ship | Mayflower |
| Showed Pilgrims how to grow corn | Squanto |