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| Roanoke | 1st English colony on Roanoke Island - it failed and no none knows what happened to the settlers. |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in 1607. |
| John Smith | a soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown. |
| House of Burgesses | first representative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | fight where Mr. Bacon took control of House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown. Mr. Bacon felt governor was giving to much to rich landowners. |
| Pilgrims | separtist group that rejected England's official church. |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement signed on Mayflower (ship) to obey laws for the good of the colony. |
| Mayflower Compact. | helped establsh the idea of self-government and majority rule. |
| Puritans | religious group that left England to escape bad treatment by King James. Wanted to reform or purify the church's practices. |
| Great Migration | Many thousands of Puritans left their homeland to new settlements. |
| Fundamental Order of Connecticut | first written constitution that expanded the idea of representative government. |
| Roger Williams | started colony of Rhode Island which guaranteed religious freedom and the separation of church and state. |
| Toleration Act | promised Religious freedom. |
| Salem Witchcraft trials | a witch hunt panic in 1690's. 20 people died. |
| William Penn | Quaker who started Pennsylvania. |
| Quakers | religious group that believed in peace and harmony. |
| James Olegthorpe | started Georgia colony as a place for debtors. |
