An English firm that planned to make money by sending people to America to find gold and other valuable natural resources and then the resources back to England.

Cash crop that made a profit and saved Jamestown

Legislative assembly established by the Virginia Company. It was similar to England's Parliament.

A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attemp to gain more land

A system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, they were also forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time their captured, purchased, or birth and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation.

Colonial region including Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont. Was the hub of the British colonial market

1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.

applied to those members of the Puritan colonies who were the children of church members, but who hadn't achieved grace themselves, allowed them to participate in some church affairs. Lowered the standard to be a member of the church.

1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress

a group of non-Separatist Puritans, fearing for their faith, secured a royal charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company. They brought the charter with them when they emigrated to America. During the early years they used it as a constitution.

A colony ruled by governors appointed by a king

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Diversity, tolerance, all were restoration colonies and all held proprietary charters. "The Bread Basket" wheat exporters.

A settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island

1681- William Penn received a land grant from King Charles II, and used it to form a colony that would provide a haven for Quakers. This colony allowed religious freedom.

First permanent French settlement in North America, founded by Samuel de Champlain

A region with an economy of Plantation farms based on cash crops; geography of Rivers, wetlands, seas, fields; and a climate that is Hot and wet.