Module 3 The English Colonies Vocabulary

the first colony in the United States; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia

• Jamestown
• Pontiac
• John Locke
• Enlightenment

English colonist to the Americas who helped found the Jamestown Colony and encouraged settlers to work harder and build better housing.

• John Smith
• Jamestown
• Pontiac
• John Locke

American Indian princess, she saved the life of John Smith when he was captured and sentenced to death by the Powhatan. She was later taken prisoner by the English, converted to Christianity, and married colonist John Rolfe.

• Pocahontas
• John Smith
• Jamestown
• Pontiac

a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• indentured servants
• Pocahontas
• John Smith
• Jamestown

an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia

• Bacon’s Rebellion
• indentured servants
• Pocahontas
• John Smith

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
• Bacon’s Rebellion
• indentured servants
• Pocahontas

African American abolitionist, he was an enslaved African who was eventually freed and became a leader of the abolitionist movement and writer of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.

• Olaudah Equiano
• Toleration Act of 1649
• Bacon’s Rebellion
• indentured servants

laws passed in the colonies to control slaves

• slave codes
• Olaudah Equiano
• Toleration Act of 1649
• Bacon’s Rebellion

Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England

• Puritans
• slave codes
• Olaudah Equiano
• Toleration Act of 1649

a member of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas

• Pilgrims
• Puritans
• slave codes
• Olaudah Equiano