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| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in North America -1607 |
| Plymouth | colony founded by separatists (from the Puritan faith) in Massachusetts. They called themselves pilgrims |
| John Smith | man credited with saving Jamestown from failure |
| John Winthrop | leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Pocahontas | Native American woman said to have saved John Smith. She married John Rolfe and traveled to England where she died. They began the tobacco cultivation of the Virginia colonies and made it a cash crop society |
| Joint-Stock Company | business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. |
| Puritans | group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut credited with the idea of “Limited Government” in North America. |
| Roger Williams | banished from Massachusetts Bay for his radical ideas about religion, he founded Rhode Island on the idea of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania who promoted religious tolerance to all who settled there. |
| Mayflower Compact | a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony, signed by the pilgrims before landing at Plymouth. |
| Magna Carta | signed in 1215, a British document that contains two basic ideas: Monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights. |
| colony | group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land. |
| cash crop | Major agricultural crops that are grown strictly for profit: tobacco, indigo, sugar, rice, and later cotton. Southern colonists made their livings raising cash crops. |
| subsistence farming | growing only enough crops for your family to eat – not for profit. |
