| A | B |
|---|
| invest | to use money to help a business get started |
| exports | products leaving a country |
| joint-stock company | A business that raises money by selling shares of stock to investors |
| indentured servants | People who signed a contract agreeing to work for a certain # of years without pay for the person who paid their passage to the colonies |
| representatives | people chosen to speak and act in government representing their fellow citizens |
| legislature | A group of people chosen to make the laws |
| royal colony | A colony in which the monarch appointed bboth the governor and the council of advisors |
| bicameral | Two-house legislature with the governor's assistants sitting in one house and the depputies in the other |
| proprietary colonies | Land given by the King to wealthy men to start colonies and appoint governors |
| Year Pilgrims landed in Plymouth | 1629 |
| Years of the Great Migration in Boston | 1630-1640 |
| Year Jamestown was founded | 1607 |
| Years of "starving time" in Jamestown | 1609-1610 |
| Name of the document signed by all people landing at Plymouth | Mayflower Compact |
| Pocohontas | Indian who helps the colony of Virginia |
| John Rolfe | Husband of Pocohontas |
| John Smith | He helped save Virginia until he was burned and sent back to England |
| Squanto | Indian who helps the colony of Massachusetts |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Peg-legged governor of New Netherlands |
| An economic revolution began because of what animal? | sheep (woolen cloth) |
| patroon | Dutch Wealthy landlords |
| Sea Dogs | English sea captains |
| armada | fleet of warships |
| persecution | Puinshed for one's beliefs |
| league | group with a common purpose |
| courier de bois | adventurous French trappers and traders who hacked through thick woodlands |
| voyageurs | French boatmen who paddled along winding streams |
| Huguenots | French Protestents |
| Sir Frances Drake | English sea captian who defeated the Spanish Armada |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England |
| Robert de La Salle | A frenchman |
| Martin Luther | German Monk who started the Protestant Reformation |
| Pedro Menendez | Spanish conquistador who drove the French out of Florida and established St. Augustine |
| Peter Minuit | Former Dutch governer who helped create New Sweden |
| Philip II | King of Spain |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Established the colony Roanoke Island off the coast of present day North Carolina |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor of New Netherlands who conquered New Sweden and it became a part of New Netherlands |
| Hiawatha & Deganawida | Indians who helped create the Iroquois League |
| Jacques Marquette | Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River |
| Louis Joliet | Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River |
| Henry VIII | King of England |
| Louis XIV | King of France |
| James I | King of England |
| Catherine of Aragon | Queen of England |
| "idle persons" | people who wandered from town to town searching for jobs |
| charter | a document from the king granting permission for people to be in an area |
| burgesses | representatives |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert | Established the colony in Newfoundland |
| Samuel de Champlain | Built a trading post in Quebec |
| Sweden | The first European country to lose a claim in North America |
| Mayflower | name of Pilgrams' ship |
| gold | what people originally went to Virginia to search for |
| netherland | first country Pilgams went to |
| $24 | how much Manhattan was purchased for |
| Huron | Indian tribe that was friendly with the French |
