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| John Smith | Helped Jamestown survive. His policy was "no work- no food" |
| Separatists | Puritans that left the Church of England because of differences |
| Pilgrims | Came to the Americas in search of religious freedom |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Raised money to fund a colony- unsuccessfully in Roanoke |
| Charter | A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| Burgess | An elected person in the government of Virginia |
| John White | An artist who led an attempt at settlement at Roanoke |
| Jamestown | The first permenant settlement in America. Problems included a refusal to work, disease, and impure water. It was save by John Smith, the growth of tobacco, and the arrival of women and Africans. |
| The House of Burgesses | The first representative3 government- in Virginia. Marked the begining of representative democracy in the English colonies. |
| Mayflower Compact | the guidelines for the Plymouth colony |
| General Court | The government assembly of the Massachusetts Bay colony |
| Thomas Hooker | A Puritan minister who criticized Govenor Winthrop and thought that people should limit the power of the government |
| Roger Williams | Left the colony of Massachusetts Bay and settled the colony of Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | Was kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay colony for saying God spoke to her and settled in Rhode Island, in an area that had been settled by Rev. John Wheelwright |
| Massasoit | King Philip's father |
| Rlaph Wheelock | first paid schoolmaster |
| Henry Adams | Principle military officer of the town of Medfield |
| Lowell Mason | Father of the American School of Music |
| Benjamin Clark | Built the Peak House |
| Toleration | A willingness to allow others to practice their own religion. |
| 1630 | The year when the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded |
| Great Migration | the period between 1629-1640 when the population increased by 20,000 |
| Rhode Island | Founded by Roger Williams, the first synagogue was built here |
| Fundamental Orders | Government that gave the ability to vote to all male land owners, Connecticutt |
| John Winthrop | The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony |
| Rev. William Blaxton | First resident of Boston |
