A | B |
Reason for New England settlement | Religious Freedom |
New Englanders | Puritans and Pilgrims |
Puritans | Stayed with the Church of England, but wished to purify it |
Pilgrims | Separatists, totally separated from the church |
Mayflower Compact | Pilgrim document that gave the idea of self government in the New World |
New England town meeting | First form of direct democracy |
Middle Atlantic Region or Middle Colonies | Settled by English, Dutch, and German speaking immigrants |
Reason for settlement of Virginia and other Southern colonies | Economic opportunity |
Virginia nobility | Cavaliers |
Indentured Servants | Worked in exchange for passage to the New World |
Virginia Company of London | Established Jamestown |
First permanent English colony in the New World | Jamestown in 1607 |
First Elected Assembly | House of Burgesses |
Exploration led to | violent conflicts |
Cause of majority of Indian deaths | disease/silent conqueror |
French relations with Indians | good |
Agricultural growth | Caused the introduction of slavery |
First slaves | 1619/Jamestown |
Covenant community | Based on Mayflower Compact |
Describe Puritan patience | Intolerant of other religions |