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Kunz - Colonies
Kunz - The English Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A group of people who wanted to fix the Anglican Church by making services simpler and doing away with formal ranks of church leadership. | Puritans |
| A group of people who wanted to separate from the Anglican Church. Came to the New World in order to build a perfect religious society at Plymouth. | Pilgrims |
| Original Pilgrim settlement in America. Local Indians helped them survive their first winter. | Plymouth |
| Original Puritan founder and 1st governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay | John Winthrop |
| Young Puritan minister who believed everyone should be free to worship God any way they chose. He was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay, fled to Narragansett Bay where he purchased land from the Indians and settled Providence. | Roger Williams |
| Forced to leave Massachusetts for preaching against the Puritans. She and her family settled Portsmouth and later joined Roger Williams’ settlement to form the colony of Rhode Island | Anne Hutchinson |
| Puritan minister who believed government should be based on “the free consent of the people” and moved from Massachusetts to found the colony of Connecticut | Thomas Hooker |
| The first written plan of government for any of the colonies, created by Thomas Hooker to govern Connecticut. It guaranteed the right to vote to all men who were members of the Puritan church. | Fundamental Orders |
| The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services | economy |
| An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies | mercantilism |
| A crop such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton raised in large quantities and sold for profit | cash crops |
| A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed | charter |
| Ruled by the people. In a democracy, the power to govern belongs to the people. | democratic |
| An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas | Mayflower Compact |
| The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves | slave trade |
| To grant permission for something | authorized |
| The official Church of England – ruled by the king | Anglican Church |
| Land Owner - often charged high rents to farmers who worked their land -made all the laws and decided what colonists should pay in taxes | Proprietor |
| Established the colony of Pennsylvania as a place where Quakers would be safe from prejudice in England and the first democracy in America. He attracted settlers from several countries by promising that people of all religions would be treated equally. | William Penn |
| Group of people who believed in a simple lifestyle and in treating all people equally. They refused to bow before the King, fight in wars, or pay taxes to the Church of England. | Quakers |
| First successful English settlement in America. Originally settled to mine for gold, later its economy became based on tobacco production. | Jamestown |
| Elected law-making assembly of Virginia | House of Burgesses |
| Founded the colony of Georgia to help poor people in England stay out of debtor’s prison by starting over as farmers | James Oglethorpe |
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