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1 Colonial America

2 Define: pacifists

3 People who refuse to use force or fight in wars, e.g. Quakers

4 Define: mission

5 Religious settlements established to convert people to a particular faith, introduced in the west by the Spanish

6 Define: Charters

7 The right to organize settlements in an area; granted by the king

8 Define: Pilgrims

9 Separatists considered themselves Pilgrims because their journey had a religious purpose.

10 Define: pilgrimage

11 A religious journey

12 Identify: King James I

13 King of England; gave charters to companies to create colonies in the Americas; Jamestown named after him

14 Identify: William Penn

15 Wealthy English gentleman; Quaker; established the colony of Pennsylvania; tolerant colony; friendly with the Native Americans

16 Identify: Metacomet / King Philip

17 Wampanoag chief; was killed by New England colonist as they fought over land in the colonies

18 Identify: Squanto and Samoset

19 Native Americans who helped the Puritans survive by teaching them how to grow corn

20 Identify: Separatists

21 People who wanted to leave the Church of England and make their own church

22 Identify: Puritans

23 Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England (Anglican Church)

24 Identify: Quakers

25 Believed that every person had an ‘inner light’ that could guide them to salvation; church officials were unnecessary; tolerant of others; pacifists

26 Identify: Great Migration

27 15,000 Puritans came to Mass. to escape religious persecution; this movement is the Great Migration

28 Identify: Mayflower

29 Ship that brought the first Pilgrims to America

30 Identify: New Orleans

31 French governor of Louisiana founded the port of New Orleans near the mouth of the Mississippi

32 Identify: New Amsterdam

33 Colony settled by the Dutch; bought from the Manhates people for beads and other small goods; taken by England and became New York

34 Describe: lifestyle and experiences faced by colonists

35 Hunger “starving time” in Virginia Disease (mosquitos) Danger from Native Americans and War (New England fought the Wampanoag) Challenge to find crops that would grow in the Americas, help form natives.

36 Describe: Act of Toleration

37 Passed in Maryland; granted both Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely; eventually Catholics were restricted

38 Describe: relations between the French and Native Americans

39 Friendly Traded furs for guns with the Natives Not interested in creating colonies

40 Describe: Great Migration

41 15,000 Puritans journeyed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England in search of religious freedom

42 Describe: How did Spain protect its empire from other European powers?

43 Soldiers Settlers Missionaries

44 Why did the Puritans want to come to America?

45 Religious freedom

46 What was the ‘starving time’ in the history of the Virginia colony?

47 First winter colonist starved Assisted by NAs John Rolfe brought tobacco to the colony and it successfully grew, saving the colony


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