Access History 1.3 The Thirteen Colonies

The harm people suffer because of who they are.

• Persecution

• Religion

• Colonist

Business people who make a living buying and selling things.

• settlers

• merchants

• representatives

An area that is settled by another country

• persecuted

• passengers

• colony

The people in government who make decisions for the people who elect them.

• Clergy

• Representatives

• Principals

Being able to practice a religion without persecution.

• Colonist

• Right

• Religious Freedom

A government that gets its power from the people NOT from kings or by force.

• Self-government

• Monarchy

• Christianity

Reasons colonists came to the early colonies...

• Riches

• Religious Freedom

• Slavery

What was the House of Burgess?

• A group of Puritan Merchants.

• First form of representative goverment in the colonies created in 1619.

• Signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A group of Puritan Merchants.

• First form of representative goverment in the colonies created in 1619.

• Signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower.

Who formed the Massachusetts Bay Company?

• A group of Puritan Merchants.

• First form of representative goverment in the colonies created in 1619.

• Signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower.