A | B |
colonization | the act of creating new settlements |
dissenter | People who disagree with official religious or political opinions |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | The first written set of principles (constitution) written in 1639 by Thoams Hooker |
House of Burgesses | Colonial Virginia’s elected assembly. |
immigrants | People who move to another country after leaving their homeland. |
Mayflower Compact | Document written by the Pilgrims that established general guidelines for self government |
pilgrims | Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England to settle in the Americas |
1619 | year Virginia House of Burgesses was created |
1215 | year Magna Carta was created |
1620 | Year Mayflower Compact was signed |
1607 | year Jamestown was settled |
1639 | year Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were written |
New England Town Meetings | Political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues |
Roger Williams | founder of Connecticut, former Puritan minister |
William Penn | Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania |
Lord Baltimore | founder of Maryland |
John Smith | founder of Jamestown |
Anne Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter who joined Roger Williams in Connecticut |
William Bradford | governor of the Plymouth colony |
Quakers | peacful group of people that settled Pennsylvania |
puritans | a Protestant group of people that wanted to reform or "purify" the Church of England |
Catholics | group that settled colony of Maryland |