13 Colonies
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