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CMS 8th ss Ch4
Chamberlain Middle School 8th grade SS Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pocahontas | Wahunsonacocks's daughter whose marriage to John Rolfe helped to form a more peaceful relationship with the Powhatan tribe. |
| Headright | System set up by the London Company that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia. |
| indentured servants | colonists who signed a contract to work from four to seven years for the person who paid their ship fare to America. |
| Planters | wealthy farmers with large plantations |
| Bacon's Rebellion | An attack on Indians and Government of Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon |
| Puritans | wanted to reform, or purify the Church of England |
| Separatists | Puritans that wanted to separate from Church of England |
| Pilgrims | a group of separatists who moved to the Netherlands then to America to worship in their own way. |
| immigrants | people who come to a new country after leaving the land of their birth |
| William Bradford | Leader of the Pilgrims |
| Mayflower | Ship that the Pilgrims came to America in |
| Mayflower Compact | Social contract between the pilgrims that set out rules by which the Pilgrims agreed to govern themselves. |
| dissenters | people who disagree with official opinions |
| Great Migration | economic, political and religious problems in Enland that led to more than 40,000 English emigants moving to the Americas |
| owners of a colony who controlled the government | proprietors |
| sacred agreement made with God | covenant |
| William Penn Quaker leader who established a colony | William Penn |
| Protestant group that believed all people had an inner goodness | Quakers |
| The mayflower compact was written because | the colonists had landed too far away from Virginia to be ruled by its government |
| Why was the Toleration Act of 1649 passed | to ease growing tensions between Catholics and Protestants in Maryland |
| John Smith helped the Jamestown colonists by | making colonists plant food crops and build sturdy housing |
| The Puritans were known as dissenters because they | protested trade restrictions |
| In Bacon's Rebellion, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers | attacked and burned jamestown |
| Members of which religious group moved to the Netherlands to freely practice their religion? | Pilgrims |
| Squanto | helped establish peace between the Pilgrims and Massasoit |
| The Powhatan Confederacy helped the Jamestown colonists by | teaching them how to grow food |
| Who criticized the General Court for taking land from the Indians without paying them? | Roger Williams |
| Which colony offered people religious freedom and a government that would protect against abuse of powers | Pennsylvania |
| All Africans who immigrated to the Virginia colony were slaves | False |
| In England Puritans allied with Pilgrims against religious persecution | False. |
| Women had more rights in the Plymouth colony than they had in England? | True |
| The Puritans wanted to build an ideal Christian community in Massachusetts. | True. |
| In 1664 Peter Stuyvesant offered the Dutch claim to New Netherland to the English | False.. |
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