Chapter 3 - The English Colonies

Official document that allowed settlers to settle on lands claimed by their ruler:

• charter

• colonial authorization

• land grant

• land permit

A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade:

• mercantilism

• charter

• Mayflower Compact

• Middle Atlantic Colonies

He trained the settlers of Jamestown to cultivate and work, saving the colony:

• John Smith

• William Penn

• John White

• Ralph Lane

These servants signed a contract to work for 4-7 years for those who paid for their trip to America:

• tourists

• indentured servants

• observer

• visitor

Laws made by colonial planters that were designed to control the lives of enslaved African Americans:

• rules

• charter

• slave codes

• regulations

A separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape religious persecution, settled in the Plymouth colony:

• Pilgrims

• Settlers

• Explorers

• Colonizers

A group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England, settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony:

• Quakers

• Catholics

• Anglicans

• Puritans

A legal contract in which pilgrim men agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good, one of the first attempts at self-government in the colonies:

• New England Treaty

• Plymouth Agreement

• Colonial Compact

• Mayflower Compact

Wampanoag who lived with the Pilgrims, teaching them how to plant corn, use fish to fertilize the soil, and how to trap wild animals:

• Tisquantum

  (Squanto)

• Pocahontas

• Sacagawea

• Geronimo

He was granted a charter to start the colony of Pennsylvania, he wanted his colony to be a place of religious freedom:

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• William Penn