Unit 3: 13 Colonies Vocabulary

Early English colony that disappeared mysteriously

• Roanoke Colony
• Plymouth Colony
• Jamestown Colony
• Massachusetts Bay Colony

the first colony in the U.S.; set up

in 1607 along the James River in Virginia

• Jamestown
• Plymouth
• Roanoke
• New Amsterdam

a colonist who received

free passage to North America in exchange for

working without pay for a certain number of

years

• Indentured Servant
• Slave
• Immigrant
• Refugee

an atttack led by

Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and

the colonial government in Virginia

• Bacon's Rebellion
• The Boston Tea Party
• The Salem Witch Trials
• The First Thanksgiving

a Maryland law that

made restricting the religious rights of

Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing

religious freedom to be passed in America

• Toleration Act of 1649

• First Amendment
• Religious Freedom Act
• Maryland Religious Rights Act

laws passed in the colonies to

control slaves

• slave codes

• Laws that restricted the movement and activities of slaves
• Laws that allowed slaves to marry freely

Protestants who wanted to reform the

Church of England

• Puritans
• Catholics
• Baptists
• Methodists

a member of a Puritan Separatist sect

that left England in the early 1600s to settle in

the Americas

• Pilgrim
• Quaker
• Mennonite
• Amish

a person who moves to another

country after leaving his or her homeland

• Immigrant
• Tourist
• Visitor
• Nomad

(1620) a document

written by the Pilgrims establishing

themselves as a political society and setting

guidelines for self-government

• The Magna Carta
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Constitution