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Who was Roger Williams?

• Forced to leave Puritan establishment in Massachusetts

• Founded Rhode Island.• Believed Puritan church should

split entirely from Church of England and natives should be paid for land.

Who was Anne Hutchinson?

• Put on trial and forced to leave Puritan establishment in Massachusetts

Who was Thomas Hooker?

• Puritan minister forced to leave Massachusetts and found Connecticut

Who was James Oglethorpe?

• Found colony of Georgia because he wanted protection for debtors.

Who was Nathaniel Bacon?

• Frontier leader in colonial America that led rebellion for land to farm

When did the rebellion end?

• When Bacon got sick and died and his followers were hung

Who was Squanto?• Native American that helped

Pilgrims get food their first hard winter in the colonies.

Who was King Phillip?• Metacom, the leader of the

Wampanoag tribe

What was England’s first permanent settlement

called?

• Jamestown

What was the “starving time?”

• Time when John Smith left Jamestown and people began getting lazy again and there was not enough food for everyone.

Why did the Puritans leave England?

• To establish their own church and escape persecution from King Charles I

What kind of colony did they find?

• One with freedom to worship only Puritan religion. No other religion was tolerated.

What happened to Puritan influence in New England

after the 1670’s?

• It declined.

What was different about the people who founded

Massachusetts and those who founded Pennsylvania?

• Massachusetts only allowed Puritans to worship there, Pennsylvania allowed all religions (religious toleration)

What was different about the people who founded

Pennsylvania and Rhode Island?

• Pennsylvania founded by Quakers who believed they had direct link with God an no need for ministers. R.I. founded by Puritan minister.

Anything similar?• Both governed themselves,

bought land from natives and allowed freedom of religion.

What type of religion/church did Rhode

Island support?

• None, all religions welcome

What are proprietary colonies?

• Colonies run by individual(s) or family (ies)

What are royal colonies?• Colonies run by kings

Which colonies were royal?• New York and New Jersey

What was the climate like in the New England

colonies?• Short, warm summers with long,

snowy winters

What was the climate like in the Southern colonies?

• Long, warm and humid summers

What was the Mayflower Compact & why did

Pilgrims write it?• It was the first document where

American colonists claimed the right to govern themselves. They wrote it to help govern the colony fairly when they ended up in Virginia after their ship was blown off course and they landed in Mass.

What was it based on?• Fair and just

laws

What were the Spanish borderlands?

• Land between Spanish colonies and English colonies

What was their main function?

• To protect Mexico from European powers

What did they promise escaped African Americans?

• Land if they helped defend Florida

How were natives important to Spanish

missions?• They kept them running.

Why were the missions created?

• Convert the Natives to Christianity

Vocabulary

• Pueblo

• Plantation

• America’s breadbasket

• Tidewater region

• Spanish civilian town

• Large farm where crops like sugar, rice & tobacco are grown

• Pennsylvania – produced a lot of wheat

• Flat, swampy lowland along southern coast where plantations are found

• Separatists

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Thanksgiving

• Border established between Maryland and Pennsylvania as a result of a dispute b/w the 2 colonies

• Group of people that leave, or separate from parent group

• Celebration of the good fortune of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth

Who did Maryland’s 1649 Act of Toleration NOT

protect?

• Non-Christians