| Term | Definition |
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Virginia Dare |
first Child Born in the American Colonies |
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Great Migration |
when more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times |
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The Calverts |
started colony of Maryland |
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Plimouth Plantation |
settlement of separtists (Puritans) in Massachussetts |
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gentry |
highest social class in the 13 english colonies |
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Puritans |
group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay colony |
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Separatists |
those like the Pilgrims who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed, and so started their own congregations |
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Mayflower Compact |
a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony, signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth |
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Anne Hutchinson |
brought to court because opinions not accepted, proven guilty then fled to Rhode Island |
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King James I |
when queen elizabeth died he came to the throne of england |
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William Penn |
Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
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Roger Williams |
Puritan minister who founded the colony of Rhode Island |
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John Rolfe |
married Pocahontas and started the planting of tobacco in Jamestown |
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Queen Elizabeth I |
queen of England, defeated Spanish Armada |
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Pocahontas |
daughter of Powahton, member of Powahton tribe, married John Rolfe and saved Captain John Smith's life |
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House of Burgesses |
Elected representatives that made laws for the colony |
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cash crop |
a crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than for personal use |
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Martin Frobisher |
one of the heroes for the English against Spanish Armada |
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Tituba |
told the girls about witches |