Ch. 3 The Thirteen Colonies

A person under contract to work, usually without pay, in exchange for the passage to the colonies.

• Slaves

• Indentured Servants

• Interns

• serfs

a shipboard contract signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower before they landed in North America, binding them to abide by their own laws and establish a civil society.

• Charter

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• Treaty of Paris

to send away as punishment, usually without hope of return

• Natural Resources

• Separatist

• Oust

• Banish

a violent conflict between Native Americans and English colonists from New England, who were aided by Native American allies.

• King Philip's War

• French and Indian Wars

• Civil War

• Royal Colony

a person in the 16th and 17th centuries who wished to leave the Church of England

• Charters

• Pilgrims

• Banish

• Separatists

a material or substance found in nature that can be used to sustain a society or exploited for economic gain, such as minerals, water, or living things.

• Cash Crop

• Natural Resource

• Mayflower Compact

• Charter

a colony ruled by a monarch through an appointed governor

• Royal Colony

• Charter

• Joint Stock Company

• Banish

a written grant establishing an institution and detailing members' rights and privileges.

• Mayflower Compact

• Joint Stock Company

• Charter

• Natural Resource

a company whose shareholders own stock in the company.

• Natural Resource

• Royal Colony

• Joint Stock Company

• Indentured Servant

a founding document of the Connecticut colony that listed 11 laws and stood as the framework for governing the colony.

• Banish

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Treaty of Paris

• Mayflower Compact