A 4-7 year work contract that settlers could agree to to get land from the Virginia Company.

Companies that financed the settlement of America; Investors would share profits while mitigating risks

King James I grants this company to colonize "Virginia" - From Carolina to Maine

This group given a charter by the Royal Crown colonized Virginia and began the Jamestown settlement.

The first permanent English settlement in North America

The nickname for the Indian chief Wahunsonacock; Founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia

The daughter of Indian Chief. Befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life; Married Englishman John Rolfe

English explorer (and Captain) who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia and the New England colonies

King grants a charter to establish and govern a colony without interference from the crown.

The king appointed a leader with full rights to govern a colony; Often this was a gift from monarch to pay back debt

A colony controlled directly by the crown (p.29)

The Colonies North of Jamestown; John Smith found that the region was rich with furs and fish

English Puritans who founded the Plymouth colony in 1620 to seek religious freedom

A group of Anglicans who wanted to purify the state church in England;

People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known as Pilgrims. Harassed and jailed for their refusal to recognize the authority of the stat church (p.30)

Governor and historian of Plymouth Colony (p.31)

A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government in 1620

-An indian who made contact with Englsih in 1605

When more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts in the 1630's to escape religious persecution and economic hard times

A solemn agreement between God and man (or between people) involving mutual commitments and guarantees. (p.33)

Established 1636; A college that trained young men for the ministry

The first written constitution in America (1639) (p.34)

Arrived in 1631, English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism (p.35)

The theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture); most notably espoused in the colonies by Anne Hutchinson.

What colonies are these: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

A Dutch system where families that came to the new world got a peice of land if they brought over 50 people (p.37)

What colonies were these states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire

American colonist and Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony and was banished from Boston for her religious views

What colonies were these: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.

1689 British Parliament granting some religious freedoms to non-Anglican Protestants

Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony.