Ch. 3 Colonial America(2024) PPT

Pilgrims

Group of English Protestant separatists who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom.

Mayflower

The ship that brought the Pilgrims to Massachusetts in the New World.

Mayflower Compact

the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

Puritans

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

John Winthrop

Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Thomas Hooker

Founder of Connecticut

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

first written constitution in America

Roger Williams

Founder of Rhode Island, provided Freedom of Worship

John Wheelwright

Founder of New Hampshire

King Phillip's War (1675-1676)

Series of assaults by Metacom, King Phillip, on English settlements in New England. The attacks slowed the westward migration of New England settlers for several decades.

Why did the Puritans and Pilgrims leave England?

They left to escape religious persecution and maintain their religious way of life.

What did the colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire have in common?

They left Massachusetts Colony because they disagreed on how the colony was being governed.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. It failed and is known as " The Lost Colony."

John White

Roanoke's colony leader who returned to England for supplies. When he returned to Roanoke the colony had vanished

Virginia Dare

First English child born in America

John Smith

Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.

Pocahontas

Daughter of Chief Powhatan, married tobacco planter John Rolfe

New Netherland

A colony founded by the Dutch in the New World. It became New York.

John Berkeley and George Carteret

Founders of New Jersey

William Penn

Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania

Quakers

English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached pacifism, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

city of brotherly love

Sir George Calvert

founded the colony of Maryland as a refuge for Catholics; also known as Lord Baltimore

Mason-Dixon Line

Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies

Bacon's Rebellion

A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land when the Virginia governor blocked further expansion

indigo

A plant used to make valuable blue dye

James Oglethorpe

Founder of the Georgia Colony