| A | B |
|---|
| Jamestown Colony | 1590 Colony joint-stock, starving time |
| Mass Bay Colony | pilgrims 1620 religious freedom |
| reasons for exploration | gold glory god |
| Christopher Columbus | "discoverer" of America 1492; mistreatreatment of natives |
| Squanto | Native who aided Pilgrims with food and friendship |
| Starving Time | colonists search for gold in Jamestown lead to harsh winter no food or supplies 1609-10 |
| John Rolfe | Virginia colonist responsible for tobacco trade |
| John Smith | Able leader of Jamestown; soldier and peacemaker with Natives:Pocahontas |
| John Winthrop | author of "City on the Hill" Governor of Mass who stressed Goals of brotherhood |
| House of Burgesses | In Virginia first example of legislative government in new world |
| 1619 | Virginia legalizes slavery to attract settlers to work land |
| Royal Colony | King James appoints governer for Virginia; takes back charter |
| Proprietary colony | collony granted by King to govern itself by one leader; middle colonies |
| Joint-Stock company | a company gets a charter to start and fund a colony by investors |
| Iroquois | Natives who lived in New York successful traders and defeating other Natives |
| Powhaten | Native American leader distrustful of bribes from English settlers |
| King Phillip's War | War in Rhode island between settlers and Metacom; ruined economy , many losses of settlers, economic hardship in NE |
| Bacon's Rebellion | war between colonial govt and small farmers distrustful of rich planters |
| Indentured Servants | people who had to work for a master for 7 yrs under a contract; much mistreatment |
| Slave Culture | triangular trade need for workers for plantations |
| Southern Colonies | maryland, virginia, georgia, s and n carolina ; proprietary colonies |
| Northern Colonies | Mass. N. Hampshire, RI and Conn. :escape religious persecution |
| Middle Colonies | NY, Delaware, NJ and Penn: proprietary trade and small farming |
| Enlightenment effects | freedoms emphasized in religion and governemtn |
| Great Awakening | religious revival in NE colonies |
| Navigation Acts | trade laws neglected by England with the colonies |
| Albany Congress | Ben Franlin; loose federation of northern states |
| relationship with England | strained but wanting to be good Englishmen |
