unit 2 - britain and its colonies

john smith

jamestown leader that traded with the native Americans and established organization in jamestown

• imposed military discipline; “had to work to eat”

• trespassed on powhatan land and was ordered to be dead; pocahontas pleaded for his life and he was saved

john rolfe

pocahontas’s husband who introduced tobacco-growing to jamestown

pocahontas

• the favorite daughter of the powhatan confederacy’s chief

• famous for saving john smith’s life after her father ordered him dead

• ended up embracing Christianity and marrying an english man

headright system

indentured servants

bacon’s rebellion

lord calvert

maryland act of toleration (1649)

mayflower compact

puritans

• english christians who wanted to strip the anglican church of all ceremony, tradition, and lavishness

• wanted

separatists

• puritans who disassociated from the anglican church to form their own congregations; believed the anglican church’s corruption was beyond repair

• heavily persecuted by anglicans, particularly authories who required everyone to attend anglican church

john winthrop

roger williams

anne hutchinson

iroquois league

william penn

james oglethorpe