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| charter | a document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company |
| John Smith | Took over Jamestown in 1608 "He who works not, eats not". |
| representative government | form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them. |
| pilgrim | a person who takes a religious journey |
| Squanto | Native American that brought Pilgrims seeds of native plants and showed them how to plant them. |
| John Winthrop | Leader of the Puritans |
| toleration | recognition that other people have the right to different opinions |
| Roger Williams | Criticized New England colonists for taking native lands without paying, was forced to leave Massachusetts |
| Ann Hutchinson | Question Puritan teachings was tried and expelled from Massachusetts |
| Thomas Hooker | Left Massachuesetts and settled Connecticut |
| town meeting | an assembly of townspeople that decides local isssues |
| Metacom | Chief of the Wampanoag, also know as King Philip |
| proprietary colony | a colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family |
| royal colony | a colony controlled directly by the English King |
| William Penn | Founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a place for Quakers |
| backcountry | frontier region extending through several colonies, from Pennsylvania to Georgia |
| Nathaniel Bacon | led a rebellion in 1675 because of the feeling that government was protecting frontier settlers |
| Lord Baltimore | Proprietor of Maryland |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia to protect English debtors |
| debtors | people who owe money |
| plantation | a large farm |
