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Gr 6 Hist Ch 7
Gr 6 History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ponce de Leon | explorer who was the first European to reach what is now the U.S. mainland |
| John Cabot | explorer who claimed part of North America for England in 1497 |
| Henry Hudson | explorer who claimed the area of New York for the Dutch |
| Samuel de Champlain | explorer who claimed the area of new York for the French |
| Roanoke | colony governed by John White |
| Jamestown | colony governed by Lord De La Warr |
| John Carver | first governor of Plymouth |
| William Bradford | second governor of Plymouth |
| Massachusetts | colony governed by John Winthrop |
| New Netherland | Peter Stuyvesant |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | founded the colony of Roanoke |
| Roger Williams | founded the colony of Rhode Island; first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America |
| John Mason | founded the colony of New Hampshire |
| Thomas Hooker | founded the colony of Connecticut |
| William Penn | founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
| Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley | founded the colony of New Jersey |
| George Calvert | founded the colony of Maryland |
| James Oglethorpe | founded the colony of Georgia |
| Queen Elizbeth | known as the "Virgin Queen" of England; Virginia named after this monarch |
| King James I | king of England; river and settlement named after him |
| King Charles I | king of England who granted a charter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Virginia Dare | first English child to be born in America |
| Captain John Smith | leader who took control of Jamestown by wisely making a new rule which stated, "He that will not work shall not eat." |
| Captain Miles Standish | military leader of Plymouth |
| Samoset | first Native American to welcome the Pilgrims |
| Squanto | Native American who lived with the Pilgrims and taught them how to hunt and plant corn |
| Chief Massasoit | leader of the Wampanoags; made a treaty with the Pilgrims and shared the first Thanksgiving |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas; introduced tobacco from the West Indies to the colonies |
| Phillis Wheatley | first black woman writer in America to publish a book |
| Separatists | religious group who wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| Elder Brewster | Pilgrim minister at Plymouth |
| Puritans | religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England |
| John Eliot | Puritan minister from Massachusetts who ministered to the Native Americans |
| Quakers | Society of Friends; believed all people were equal |
| Count von Zinzendorf | leader of the Moravians, who founded a settlement in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
| Moravians | Germans who followed the teachings of John Huss |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the first leaders of the Great Awakening |
| George Whitefield | great preacher from England; evangelist to America who preached from Georgia to New England |
| David Brainerd | as a result of the Great Awakening, became one of the first missionaries to the native Americans |
| St. Augustine | first permanent European settlement in the New World, planted by Spain |
| Roanoke | "The Lost Colony"; founded by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in the New World |
| Plymouth | the Pilgrims' settlement |
| Massachusetts Bay | colony established by the Puritans |
| Hartford | first major settlement in Connecticut |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that today is New York |
| New Amsterdam | Dutch settlement that today is New York City |
| Philadelphia | city founded by William Penn |
| Fort Christina | city in Delaware founded by the Swedes |
| Williamsburg | city that became the capital of Virginia in 1699 |
| St. Mary's City | first settlement in Maryland |
| Charleston | South Carolina's first permanent settlement |
| Savannah | Georgia's first settlement |
| "before Christ" | B.C. stands for what |
| "anno Domini" or "in the year of our Lord" | A.D. stands for what |
| timeline | a graph used to show events in their correct order |
| Spanish Armada | Spain's powerful fleet defeated by the English in 1588 |
| Pilgrims | Separatists and others who came to America on the Mayflower |
| Mayflower Compact | first written agreement for self-government in America |
| hornbook | paddle-shaped board that had on it a piece of paper with the alphabet and Lord's Prayer, covered with a thin sheet of horn |
| log cabins | type of home first built by the Swedish settlers in Delaware |
| royal colony | colony owned by the king of England |
| House of Burgesses | colonial Virginia's elected body of representatives |
| Ark and Dove | two small ships that brought the Catholic settlers to Maryland |
| old-field school | a type of school common in the Southern colonies; often held in a shabby building in an old field |
| Great Awakening | spiritual revival from about 1730-1760 |
| London Company | the group of English merchants who obtained a charter from King James I to establish a colony |
| Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery | three ships that brought settlers to Jamestown |
| Ole' Deluder Satan Act | act which established the first public school system by directing every town that had at least 50 households to hire a teacher for their children |
| New England Primer | reading textbook which was used by millions of American children for over 150 years |
| Harvard College | the name of the first college founded in the colonies (1636) by the Puritans to train ministers |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | the first written constitution in America |
| Half Moon | the name of Henry Hudson's ship |
| 1492 | Columbus discovered the New World |
| 1607 | English settlers founded Jamestown, Virginia |
| 1620 | Pilgrims founded Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| 1630 | Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| 1647 | Ole' Deluder Satan Act |
| 1730-1760 | Great Awakening |
| Holland | first country the Separatists moved to for religious freedom |
| Virginia | first royal colony owned by the King of England |
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