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| first successful colony in North America, established in eastern Virginia in 1607 along the James River |
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| engilsh colonist to the Americas who helped found the Jamestown Colony and encouraged the settlers to work harder and build better housing |
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| American Indian princess, she saved the life of john smith when he was captured and sentenced to death by the Powhatan. She was later taken prisoner by the English, converted to Christianity, and married colonist John Rolfe. |
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| colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years (4-7 years) |
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| an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonisl government in Virginia in 1676 |
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| a Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime: the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America |
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| an African American abolitionist, he was an enslaved African who was eventually freed and became a leader of the abolitionist movement an one of the first known African Americans to write/publish his experiences |
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| laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
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| a group of protestants that wanted to reform the church of england |
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| a member of a Puritan Separatist sect that left england in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas |
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| a person that moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland |
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| a document written in about 1620 by the Pilgrims, establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government |
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| Paxtuet Indian who was captured and enslaved in Spain but later escaped to England and then America; he taught the Pilgrims SPANISH farming methods and helped them establish relations with the Wampanoag, the Indians at the feast later known as Thanksgiving |
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| leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony who led Puritan colonists to MA to establish an ideal Christian community; unelected 1st governor |
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| puritan woman whose ideas got her kicked out of MA/Boston because they claimed that a person could have a direct relationship with God without ministers . Later founded colony of Portsmouth in present-day RI |
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| Director general of Dutch New Netherland colony, forced to surrender to English |
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| (Society of Friends) Protestant sect founded in England in 1640s whose members believed salvation was available to all people. |
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| Quaker leader who founded PA as a safe place for Quakers. PA became an important example of representative self-government/freedom/tolerance |
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| crops that are continuously in demand |
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| a political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues (primarily New England) |
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| an act passed by Parliament in 1689 that caused a shift in political power from the British monarchy to Parliament |
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| trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa (also West Indies) |
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| a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to North America or West Indies |
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| important/influential revivalist leader in the Great Awakening religious movement, delivered dramatic sermons on the choice between salvation and damnation |
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| a religious movement that swept through the colonies in 1730s and 40s (caused political/social changes too) |
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| movement that began in Europe in the 1700s when people began to reexamine the world. reason and logic could improve society |
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| Ottawa chief who united Great Lakes Indians to stop British settlement west of Appalachians by attacking forts |
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| american revolutionary who led the agitation that lead to the Boston Tea Party; signed Declaration of Independence |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| committees created by MA house of reps in 1760s to help towns/colonies share information about resisting British laws |
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| law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper goods |
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| an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people 1770 |
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| a law passed by Parliament in 1773 allowing British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants, lead to Boston Tea Party |
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| a protest against Tea Act in 1773 in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor |
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| laws passed by Parliament in 1774 to punish the colonists for Boston Tea Pary and to tighten government control of the colonies |
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