Early Colonies #2

A person who goes on a long journey for a religious purpose.

• pilgrim

• Puritan

• colonist

• Separatists

This document explained how the pilgrims would govern themselves in their new colony.

• Mayflower Compact

• Mayflower Treaty

• Mayflower Charter

• Mayflower Constitution

A group that wanted to leave their country in order to practice their religion.

• Puritans

• Separatists

• pilgrms

• Burgesses

A group of people who left England because they felt that the Church of England was not strict enough.

• pilgrims

• Separatists

• Puritans

• Anglicans

This is a westward sea route that went across the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Finding this route was a goal for French and Dutch colonists.

• Pacific Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Pilgrims Passage

• Atlantic Passage

This is a company that has total control over an industry. At this time in history, the French had a ____ over the fur trade in North America.

• charter

• treaty

• monopoly

• decree

This colony is controlled by a monarch (king or queen). The monarch chooses the leader to represent the crown and the people who live there have no say in the decisions that are made.

• royal province

• royal territory

• monarchial province

• province monarchy

These people come from a country called the Netherlands.

• French

• Dutch

• Spaniards

• pilgrims

____ were set up to pay for colonists to search for new lands to settle. Groups of wealthy donors would invest in expeditions in hopes that the trade the settlement made would make them money.

• colony

• company

• charter

• monopoly