13 Colonies

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Massachusetts

- 1st group to arrive were the Separatists/Pilgrim - arrived on the Mayflower

New France

- Quebec in the north - New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River - French had friendliest relations with the Native Americans

Georgia

- established so debtors could serve their prison sentence and start a new life - the last of the British colonies to be established in America

Jamestown

- founded 1607 - John Smith took over control and made men work - tobacco was their cash crop - only 38 of 144 settlers survived the 1st winter

Puritans

- settled around Boston in 1629 - Massachusetts Bay Colony - came to America for religious freedom - refused to grant the same freedom to people of other faiths

New York

- the Dutch settled New Netherland first - the English took over in the 1660's because the colony lay between it's northern and southern colonies, and it had a good harbor

House of Burgess

Jamestown's/Virginia's government (legislative assembly). It was the first representative government in America.

Act of Toleration

Maryland's law that make it unlawful to discriminate against differing religions or force a religion upon any group

the Southern Colonies

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

the New England Colonies

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

the Middle Colonies

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Separatists

Protestants who wanted to separate from the Church of England

Manhattan

Purchased for beads and other goods worth $24

Quakers

believed everyone was equal in God's eyes

New Spain

built religious settlements, called missions

charter

document from King James 1 giving permission to settle in America

Mayflower Compact

document that made the settlers pledge to work for the good of the colony

Connecticut

established the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Thomas Hooker

founder of Hartford

Nathaniel Bacon

held a rebellion and attacked Jamestown because the colonial legislature would not protect frontier farmers in Virginia; "the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia"

pacifists

people who do not believe in war

Pennsylvania

settled by the Quakers

Squanto

showed the Pilgrims how to grow corn

San Antonio

site of Spanish military post

Northwest Passage

the French, English and Dutch were looking for a route through America to Asia

Roanoke

the colony that disappeared

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

the first constitution written in America. a constitution sets up a country's government

Pilgrims

the name the Separatists called themselves, because they were on a religious journey - settled in Plymouth

Great Migration

what the 1630's and 1640's was called because many of the settlers to Massachusetts came during that time

economic resource

what the colonies were supposed to be to the mother country, the English crown

Starving Time

winter of 1609/1610 - many people died of hunger

indentured servants

worked for the colonists for 7 years (with no pay) in return for passage to America


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