Colonial America Vocabulary

John Winthrop

• governor of Rhode Island

• governor of Massachusetts

• the president of the colonies

• a famous town crier

Roger Williams

• man who founded Rhode Island

• minister who went to England

• preacher who built the first major settlement in Rhode Island

• man who was governor of Massachusetts

What colonies were the New England Colonies?

• New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

• Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

• Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

• Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, Pennsylvania

Massachusetts Bay Colony

• largest town in Massachusetts

• colony founded by the Puritans in 1630

• first settlement in Rhode Island

• first major settlement in Connecticut

A chief commander in the navy is called a ________.

A valuable blue dye is called ________.

Plantations

• large farms found throughout the Southern Colonies

• town common areas

• Fields of corn only

• A place where people went to find business

People who live in The Netherlands; claimed the southern part of New York

• Quakers

• Anglicans

• Puritans

• Dutch

Dutch explorer who sent to find a shortcut through Asia; found New York instead

• William Penn

• George Whitefield

• Henry Hudson

• George Calvert

Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania

• Quakers

• Pilgrims

• Separatists

• Catholics