SS Chapter 6 Vocab

a person who settles in a colony

• Jamestown

• colonist

• democratic

• monarchy

a set of rules written by the Pilgrims to help them live together peacefully

• monarch

• Jamestown

• democratic

• Mayflower Compact

the first permanent English colony in America, located in Virginia and named after King James 1

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Plymouth

• democratic

Relating to a form of government in which people have the power to rule themselves, often through elected representatives

• democratic

• monarchy

• representative government

• Mayflower Compact

a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen

• settlement

• democratic

• monarchy

• representative government

an island off the coast of North Carolina that became the first English settlement

• Plymouth

• Roanoke

• Mayflower Compact

• Jamestown

a place in Massachusetts where the Pilgrims settled

• Jamestown

• colonist

• Roanoke

• Plymouth

a form of government where the citizens elect the leaders to make decisions on their behalf

• representative government

• Roanoke

• colonist

• Mayflower Compact

a small community created by settlers in a new territory

• settlement

• colonist

• democratic

• monarchy