Module 3 Vocabulary

This colony was founded in 1607 in Virginia. It was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

• Roanoke

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Mayflower

Gave 50 acres of land to any colonist who paid their way to the colonies

• Headright System

• Toleration Act of 1649

• Mayflower Compact

• John Rolfe

A Maryland law that supported religious freedom

• Headright System

• Toleration Act of 1649

• Mayflower Compact

• Immigrants

The male Pilgrim leaders signed this contract that agreed to a government based on fair laws.

• Headright System

• Indentured servant

• Toleration Act of 1649

• Mayflower Compact

These are plants that are grown to be sold so the grower can make money. Tobacco was the first type in the colonies.

• Puritans

• Squanto

• Cash crop

• Indentured servants

People who agreed to work from 4-7 years for someone who paid their way to the colonies.

• Puritans

• Squanto

• Cash crop

• Indentured servants

People who leave the country of their birth to live in another country

• Immigrants

• Indentured servants

• Squanto

• John Rolfe

People who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 because they wanted religious freedom

• Immigrants

• Puritans

• Indentured servants

• Pilgrims

This person upset Puritan leaders in Massachusetts and was forced to leave the colony.

• Pocohantas

• Anne Hutchinson

• John Rolfe

• Squanto

(a)   led the Great MIgration our of England in 1630.​

• John Winthrop
• John Rolfe
• Squanto
• Jamestown