A | B |
colony | a place where people start a new society |
settlers | people who start a new life in a place |
tobacco | a plant that people can smoke |
debt | owing money to others |
Jamestown | town in the Virginia colony ;where people looked for gold |
Virginia | the first English colony |
Puritains | people who settled in Massacussets for religious freedom |
Roger Williams | left the Puritains to worship freely in Rhode Island |
Rhode Island | first colony where there was religious freedom for all |
England | country in Europe |
English | people from England |
Maryland | colony started by 300 Catholics |
Quakers | people who went to Pennsylvania for religious freedom |
Pennsylvania | colony started by William Penn |
Georgia | colony for poor people, or people in debt |
reasons the English came to America | to get rich, for freedom of religon, for a better life |
why the first winter in Jamestown was hard | the settlers did not grow food or build houses; they were hungry |
along the Atlantic Ocean | the location of the 13 English colonies |
Providence | a city in the Rhode Island colony |
Ann Hutchinson | a lady who left the Puritains for religious differences |