New England Colonies and Vocab Practice

Representative Government

• a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

• Someone that settles in a new country

• an act of popular violence in defiance usually of an established government

• a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters

Colonist

• Someone that settles in a new country

• a representative to the colonial Virginia government

• a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

Uprising

• a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

• to be a sign that something is about to happen.

• an act of popular violence in defiance usually of an established government

• the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

Drought

• the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

• a period of dryness (no rain) that goes on for a long time.

• the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

• one of the first to settle in a territory

Agriculture

• Farming to produce crops and raise animals

• a representative to the colonial Virginia government

• the elected representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• morally good behavior or character

Burgess

• one of the first to settle in a territory

• a representative to the colonial Virginia government

• a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• to make easier

Charter

• a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony

• a period of dryness (no rain) that goes on for a long time.

• a representative to the colonial Virginia government

• a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

Pioneer

• one of the FIRST to settle in a territory

• Someone that settles in a new country

• to come to a firm decision or find an answer or solution to something

• morally good behavior or character

Signify

• a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

• Farming to produce crops and raise animals

• to be a sign that something is about to happen.

• a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Pilgrim

• a representative to the colonial Virginia government

• the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

• a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony

• an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s