Chp. 3 Vocab

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Headright

a 50 acre of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way

Seperatists

Protestants who, during the 1600s wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches

Puritans

Protestants who, duirng the 1600s wanted to reform the Anglican Church

Pilgrims

Seperatist who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose

Mayflower Compact

a formal document written in 1620 that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

the first written plan for a govenment in America

Jamestown

A british settlement on the James river in Virginia also was the frist settlement

Powhattan Confederacy

The name of a Virginia Indian confederation of tribes made of 7 tribes in modern day Virginia

John Smith

He was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was the reason why Jamestown survived

John Winthrop

A wealthy english Puritan lawyer. He was the first govener and thought government should be based on religion

Great Migration

the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern U.S the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970

Indentured Servants

a laborer or tradesman under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time in exchange for a passageway to America

Dissent

Dissagreeing an opinion

Consternation

fear

Burgess

a political official or representative to assembly or Virginia

Croatoan

Carved into a post on Roanoke Island

Primary Source

Are the actual evidence and documents

William Bradford

The leader of the Puritan and responsible for naming them pilgrims

Secondary Source

Descriptions or events that happen after an historical event

Pocahontas

The daughter of Cheif PPowhattan she saved John Smiths life and married John Rolfe